Space station
The Star Trek Expanded Universe Database is for fanon and related content. See Memory-Alpha.org for the canon Star Trek wiki.
| This page needs copyediting for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
If you disagree with this assertion, do not remove this message. Place a note explaining why you disagree on the discussion page. This page may be improved according to the talk page plan for improvement, so don't hold back ideas for copyediting! |
A space station is a structure built or assembled in space. These structures are normally designed to be stationary, and can be constructed in orbit of a planet or other stellar body.
[edit] Reasons For Building Space Stations
Space stations are built for one or more of the following reasons:
- To provide a defensive outpost, in order to protect an area or object of importance;
- To facilitate trade, acting as a corridor through which supplies can be moved between two starships, or a ship and a planet;
- To facilitate mining, acting as warehouse which stores the supplies mined until a ship is able to collect them for transport.
- To facilitate research into the mysteries of space.
- To facilitate development, whether this be ships, new weaponry or new technology, including medical.
- To provide medical facilities in a zero-g and varying gravity environments for patients needing treatment at less-than-standard gravity.
- To provide maintenance and upgrade facilities for starships when they are not in use, between missions or require upgrades or repairs.
[edit] Examples of Space Stations
Examples of stations constructed include:
