Suliban cell ship

Suliban cell ships were the primary type of ship used by the Suliban Cabal during the mid-22nd century. Cell ships were warp capable which was powered by a cascading ion drive. They were also armed with particle weapons and equipped with a cloaking device.

Two different types of cell ship were observed by the crew of the Enterprise in the 2150s: a small one man fighter which was about the same size as an Enterprise shuttlepod, and a larger vessel that was also equipped with a tractor beam. Both kinds of vessels were capable of combining to create a larger structure, such as a helix.

In April 2151, the Enterprise crew captured a small cell ship and used it in an attempt to rescue Klaang from a helix. Over the following months, Commander Charles Tucker III and his engineering staff took the ship apart and analyzed many of its components, especially its cloaking device, but they made little headway. In 2152, Tucker used the cell ship to mount a rescue mission of Captain Archer and Lieutenant Reed from a pre-warp planet, and had sporadic success with using the ship's cloak.