Cargo bay A cargo bay or cargo hold was a general purpose storage facility aboard shuttle s , starship s and starbase s . Starfleet . NX - class . The had three cargo bays . ( ) Cargo Bay One was located aft center in the saucer section . ( ) Circa 2152 , a web - like symbiotic lifeform infested Cargo Bay Two aboard the NX - class starship . ( ) " Enterprise " s Cargo Bay Two became affected , in 2153 , by spatial anomalies that were a characteristic of the Delphic Expanse , causing cargo to fly from one wall to another and cling to the walls . Meanwhile , Cargo Bays One and Three seemed unaffected . Though Archer at first thought Cargo Bay Two ' s gravity plating might be responsible , viewing the cargo bay confirmed for him that this wasn ' t the case . The room was thereafter sealed off . ( ) Shortly thereafter , one of the cargo bays aboard " Enterprise " was invaded by a pair of Osaarian pirate s , who firstly beamed into the cargo bay before one of them used his own particle weapon to knock out a crewman who had been working in the area . The cargo bay was then ransacked by the pair of Osaarians , using small transponder devices . The Osaarians completely emptied Cargo Bay Two and were in Cargo Bay One when they were detected by Captain Archer and Lieutenant Reed from the vessel ' s armory , though the Osaarians soon left the ship . Cargo Bay Two was at least partly refilled with the previously stolen cargo once it was recovered from a Delphic Expanse sphere where the Osaarians had stashed it . ( ) Shortly after Captain Archer and T ' Pol returned to " Enterprise " of 2153 following completion of a time - traveling mission to Detroit of 2004 , Archer mentioned Cargo Bay Two to T ' Pol ; he wanted her to ensure that the room be used to store Xindi equipment that , as a result of the mission , was now in the command center on " Enterprise " . ( ) " Crossfield " - class . The had five cargo bays . ( ) These bays were located in the secondary hull . ( ) In 2256 , it was announced on the public announcement system that all available offload team s were to report to Cargo Bay 5 of the . ( ) " Constitution " - class . In 2266 , the starship beam ed down cargo supplies to the Tantalus V penal colony . ( ) In 2267 , the USS " Enterprise " was en route to Makus III with a cargo of medical supplies . ( ) While cargo bay is the designation for goods to be delivered to another starship , a starbase , or colony , ship ' s stores is the designation for crew supplies storage . After the USS " Enterprise " underwent a refit in the 2270s , the ship had one large cavernous cargo bay , in the ship ' s secondary hull , that could be flown into directly from space by shuttlecraft and cargo management unit s carrying cargo containers . ( ) This cargo bay had three levels : " Galaxy " - class . Cargo bays were often equipped with large transporter s to assist in the moving of cargo containers . However , aboard starships , cargo bays located in the stardrive section did not have transporters . In that situation , cargo was directed into the bay by a transporter chief operating in a transporter room . ( ) Cargo bays were used in a variety of ways other than typical storage , including triage centers , brig s , and stasis unit facilities . Cargo Bay 4 aboard the was located close to the outside of the ship and could be decompressed easily by blowing the cargo bay hatch . ( ) " Intrepid " - class . The had several bays with the designation " Cargo Bay 2 " . One had variable environmental controls and was designed for organic storage . It was converted to a hydroponics bay by Kes in 2371 in order to allow for the growth of food s for consumption . Another was located on Deck 4 and suffered a massive hull breach when a Kazon shuttle intentionally collided into it in 2372 . In 2374 , the Borg assimilated a third " Cargo Bay 2 " during an alliance with " Voyager " . After the alliance , four Borg alcove s remained in the bay and it went back to normal cargo storage . This " Cargo Bay 2 " , however , was located on Deck 8 . ( ) The USS " Voyager " had two cargo bays , one on Deck 4 ( Cargo Bay 1 ) and one on Deck 8 . Cargo Bay 2 was in section four , and was used for the storage of spare components and surplus materials . ( ) At one point in 2377 , two deuterium tanks were beamed out of Cargo Bay 2 . ( ) Deep Space 9 . In 2369 Jake Sisko was late for dinner with his father . The computer located him in Cargo Bay 14 where he was tutoring Nog in reading . ( ) Nog and Jake Sisko met a Lissepian captain in Cargo Bay 9 in 2369 to barter some Cardassian yamok sauce for self - sealing stem bolts . ( ) Constable Odo told Commander Sisko and Chief O ' Brien to take Crossover bridge 1 which would lead them into the cargo bay and Docking port 4 . ( ) After Keiko O ' Brien ' s school was destroyed by a bomb , Commander Sisko granted her permission to resume teaching her students in a cargo bay . ( ) When Nog requested a recommendation from Commander Sisko to enter Starfleet Academy , Sisko decided to test Nog ' s seriousness by asking him to inventory the contents of Cargo Bay 4 . Nog completed the task in a mere five hours , and found items that had been overlooked in the previous inventory . ( ) Miles O ' Brien used one of Deep Space 9 ' s cargo bays to install a dart board in 2371 . ( ) Klingon Imperial Fleet . Bird - of - Prey . Small Klingon Bird - of - Prey s , like the , had their cargo bay located in the secondary hull . This bay had top loading cargo doors that could be opened explosively with an explosive override . This bay was located on the same deck as the transporter room and engine room . ( ) Other ships . In 2152 , the cargo hold of a Retellian freighter temporarily held a stasis pod containing Kriosian princess Kaitaama , as she had been kidnapped by the vessel ' s Retellian crew . Commander Charles Tucker III , who released Kaitaama from the room , referred to it as a " grimy little cargo hold . " ( ) The next year , Captain Jonathan Archer covertly accessed the cargo bay aboard Degra ' s ship , in order to sabotage a shipment of kemocite intended for use in the creation of the Xindi weapon . ( ) An Andorian battle cruiser had three cargo holds . In December of 2153 , Cargo Hold Three aboard the Andorian battle cruiser " Kumari " temporarily held the Xindi test weapon . ( ) In 2369 , someone broke into the cargo bay of the Kobliad transport ship " Reyab " when it docked at Deep Space 9 , to steal a computer chip with a map of the Humanoid brain . ( ) Under the influence of the Saltah ' na , Major Kira Nerys asked Constable Odo to slip through the security system of a Valerian transport and into their cargo bay to check if their shipment included dolamide . ( ) Background information . The live - action portion of the cargo deck in " The Motion Picture " was built on Paramount Stage 18 and cost US $ 52 , 000 . ( " " , p . 95 ) The set was made by using elements that art director Joe Jennings had designed and constructed for the office of Japanese admiral Nogura , during pre - production on the ultimately abandoned series " " . " " I don ' t know exactly what he was going to do with them , but he ' d built these sections they ' d ended up storing , " " commented " The Motion Picture " s production designer , Harold Michelson . " " I can ' t stand to waste , so I used them in the cargo hold , and that ' s why the cargo hold is sort of Japanese - y . " " ( ) This set was later added to via the use of matte painting s , making it seem even larger than the set had been . ( " " , interior color photographs ) According to the VOY Season 2 DVD trivia text version of , the " Enterprise " - D had three cargo bays located on Decks 2 , 38 , and 39