Parking

Parking could refer both to the act of leaving behind a vehicle at a certain spot, and to specific locations designated for parking, which might also be called a parking lot. The term was most often used in relation to cars and other ground vehicles, but it could also apply to spaceships capable of landing. 
On 20th century Earth, there were sometimes restrictions on parking, or even personel tasked with coordinating parking. Once while in 1996, Tuvok unsuccessfully tried to use Vulcan logic to talk a meter maid out of giving him a parking citation. The homeless Braxton had set up in an alley where no parking was allowed, as indicated by a sign. Inexplicably the alley contained a derelict automobile regardless. ()
The fictional hotel called the Royale had several parking lot attendants. ()
In December 2000, after repairs on Shannon O'Donnel's car were completed, it was parked behind the garage where she could collect it when she was ready. ()
After leaving the cloaked behind in the Golden Gate Park in 1986, James T. Kirk instructed his crew to "remember where we parked."
In that same year, signs directing cars to a parking space could be found near the Sentinel building in San Francisco. A nearby antiques shop also had a sign saying "Don't even think of parking here" on sale. ()
In 2004, a prostitute named Georgia Tandy tried to direct to "a nice place to park". ()
Charles Tucker III once parked a car at a place called Chatkin Point for a date with his girlfriend. ()
Jett Reno's wedding had non-denominational shuttle parking. ()
Similary, The Doctor once parked a car on Mars as part of a Holodeck date. ()
In 2259, the alternate universe version of San Francisco had at least one parking lot on the top of building's roof.
In 2372, Tom Paris felt that parking a Chevrolet Bel Air on the top of the hills overlooking Utopia Planitia with his girlfriend was the "perfect date." He even made a holoprogram for the holodeck on the that was just that - and the Doctor used the program to take Danara Pel on a date. ()
==In space==
Starships might also assume a parking orbit, or otherwise be parked at a specific location in space. Ro Laren for example once docked a ship between two warp nacelles. (). Starships might incorporate a parking brake. ()
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Category:Architecture