Communication channel

A communication channel, also abbreviated as com channel or comm channel, was a medium used to communicate a transmission of information from a transmitter to a receiver via a communications frequency. 
According to Starfleet guidelines for away team members during a "medical emergency on alien terrain, it is recommended [to] keep an open comm channel at all times." () 
During his brief time aboard Deep Space 9, in 2373, Cardassian exile Tekeny Ghemor was given 26 hour-a-day computer access, and a his own private subspace comm channel. ()
== Specified channels ==
* Central channel, a communications channel used on Eminiar VII
* Channel 90, a net channel
* Channel 178, a net channel
* Channel E
* D channel, a communications channel used by Starfleet
* Emergency channel, a communications channel used by Starfleet
** Emergency Channel D, a communications channel used by Starfleet
** Emergency medical holographic channel, used to communicate with an EMH
* Subspace channel
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Category:Communications technology