Corkscrew

A corkscrew is a device used to remove corks from wine bottles. The term also described certain types of starship evasive maneuvers, as in the spiraling motion the screw makes as it turns.

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In 2024, the time displaced Seven of Nine and Raffi Musiker saw a dozen Borg approaching, and their available weapons were an ice pick, a knife, and a corkscrew. (PIC episode: "Hide and Seek")

In 2267, The flagship IKS Qul encountered an enormous dreadnought shaped like a corkscrew which could traverse dimensions. (TOS - Invasion novel: First Strike)

The Great Starship Race's course route in 2269 looked like a bent corkscrew, compressing a 3,000 light year route into a smaller volume. (TOS novel: The Great Starship Race)

When Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher roleplayed characters in the Dixon Hill holonovel The Rich and the Dead in 2369, Q monitored their progress from multiple vantage points. For a few moments, he possessed a corkscrew used to open a bottle of riesling in Eldon Truscott's residence. (TNG comic: "Reductions & Deductions")

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Hikaru Sulu performed corkscrew evasive maneuvers several times. (TOS novel: Death Count, TOS - New Earth novel: The Flaming Arrow, TOS - Rihannsu novel: The Empty Chair)

Aboard Copernicus, Spock used the maneuver aboard the shuttlecraft Copernicus in Rose's Folly system near a Jovian planet with an intense electromagnetic field to evade Orion pirates in 2274. (TOS eBook: The More Things Change)

In 2269, the mobile retlaw plant's roots, when ready to re-burrow into the ground, spiraled in a corkscrew fashion. (TAS - Log Two novelization: The Infinite Vulcan)

In 2278, Captain Kasak sutai-Khornezh ordered helmsman Krynn of the IKV Hakkarl to execute a corkscrew down starboard and then cloak to evade 23 gunboats. (TOS novel: Rules of Engagement)