Andorian escape pod

An Andorian escape pod was a type of emergency vessel-escape vehicle used by the Andorian Imperial Guard in their vessels in the 22nd century, particularly Andorian battle cruisers.

In 2153, Commander Thy'lek Shran took the Kumari to assist Captain Jonathan Archer and in the Delphic Expanse. He briefly needed to kidnap the Captain in a scheme to capture the Xindi superweapon, and later left him adrift in one of the Kumari's escape pods. 

Later in 2154 when the Kumari was destroyed by a Romulan drone-ship imitating a Tellarite cruiser, nineteen crewmen were able to escape alive, though many injured, in the escape pods that Enterprise later rescued.