A carriage that climbs a cable from the surface of the Nezu colony world to an orbital station, repaired by Neelix and Tuvok as their only way off the asteroid-battered planet.
The orbital tether is a space elevator on a Nezu colony planet, a magnetically driven carriage that travels up a cable to a station in orbit. It appears in the Voyager episode Rise.
When Voyager tries to protect the colony from a rain of asteroids, the shuttle carrying Tuvok and Neelix crashes near a disused tether station. Neelix, who claims experience with tethers on Rinax, proposes repairing the carriage and riding it above the interference so that Voyager can beam everyone out.
The ascent is fraught. Neelix admits he has only worked with scale models, the scientist Dr Vatm is poisoned, and the Nezu passenger Sklar is exposed as a traitor working for the Etanian Order, which has been steering the asteroids to force an evacuation. Tuvok retrieves the proof from the carriage roof.