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Escape ShipAn Escape ship is a ship used in a fugue. An Escape pod is a smaller, individual escape ship. Escape pods are usually seen in science fiction but have been used in real life to escape from supersonic aircraft. Famous escape ships/pods include: Non fiction In fiction - Alien series
- At the end of the first film, Ripley attempts to kill the Alien by blowing up the Nostromo and escaping in the escape pod Narcissus. The pod, with Ripley and Mr Jones that cat, is recovered some 57 years later, at the start of Aliens.
- At the beginning of Alien, the hibernating bodies of Ripley, Hicks and Newt, and Bishop, are automatically ejected to safety in an emergency escape vehicle, when aliens loose aboard the ship cause a fire. The vehicle crashlands on a nearby prison planet, killing Hicks and Newt.
- Star Trek
- In the pilot of Deep Space Nine, a flashback to the Battle of Wolf 359 depicts Commander Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko escaping the doomed USS Saratoga.
- In , Captain Picard decides to defeat the Borg that have assimilated the USS Enterprise in orbit of Earth, by self-destructing the ship: the crew escape beforehand by numerous small escape pods. The crew are ordered to land on an (in reality fictional) island in the northwest Pacific.
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