Pickup truck

A Pickup Truck was a type of automobile used on Earth during the 20th and 21st centuries. A light truck, a pickup consisted of a the engine area, a cab with room for a driver plus one or more passengers, and an open air cargo area. Initially built for agricultural use, the pickup soon became popular throughout human society.

The human farmer Jack Hayes owned a 1936 Ford pickup, which he had been driving when the Briori kidnapped him and 300 other humans, including the pilot Amelia Earhart. After being taken from Earth and placed in stasis, the truck was jettisoned into interstellar space in the Delta Quadrant. Over 400 years later, the truck was still floating in space when it was discovered by the Federation starship USS Voyager. Lieutenant Tom Paris was able to get the truck working again, and found an old AM radio signal being from a nearby class L planet being picked up by the radio equipment in the truck. They were able to follow the signal to its source.

In the 1980s Doctor Gillian Taylor owner a Chevrolet pickup truck, which she used as her personal automobile. This vehicle was able to hold her plus up to two passengers. After encountering then Admiral James T. Kirk and Captain Spock at the Cetacean Institute - who had traveled back in time from the 23rd century to retrieve humpback whales - she used this truck to give Spock a ride back to Golden Gate Park, and took Admiral Kirk to dinner before returning him to the park as well.

When the USS Voyager was pulled back across space and time to orbit the Earth in 1996, Tom Paris and Lieutenant Tuvok used a Dodge pickup to travel to the Griffith Observatory to find the young woman who had been tracking Voyager as she orbited the Earth, and to ensure any data collected was erased. The truck was vaporized by Henry Starling's associate Dunbar.