An air tram flies over San Francisco.
An air tram was a type of small vessel which was used to transport people between different cities on Earth. The trams were restricted to a capacity of around 20 people.
Service history and specifications[]
23rd century air tram.
Air trams served as an environmentally friendly public transit system. They were silent, landed on short runways, and traveled at low altitudes between transit stations. (Fact Files Issue 37: "File 30, Card 6: Air Tram")
In 2273, Admiral James T. Kirk boarded an air tram traveling between Los Angeles and San Francisco so that he could meet with Admiral Heihachiro Nogura at Starfleet Headquarters. (TOS novelization: The Motion Picture)
A century later, in 2373, Ensign Harry Kim took an air tram into the bay area of that city. (VOY episode: "Non Sequitur")
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External link[]
- Air tram article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.