A docking port on Enterprise (NX-01)
A docking port on the refit Constitution-class Enterprise
Docking ports are located on the hull of a starship and allow the crew access between their ship and another vessel or space station.
The docking ports on board an NX class starship are located on E deck.
In January 2152, a symbiotic lifeform used a docking port to gain access to the Earth Starfleet vessel Enterprise. (ENT: "Vox Sola")
The refit Template:ShipClass starship Enterprise featured a number of docking ports. One was on the portside of the saucer section, and connected the ship to the drydock during the refit.
In 2273, travel pod carrying Admiral James T. Kirk and Commander Montgomery Scott docked with the ship at a port on the engineering hull which connected directly to the cargo bay, following a long exterior tour of the vessel. Later, the Vulcan shuttle Surak docked at a port directly aft of the bridge to deliver Spock to the Enterprise. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
There were also docking ports which led to the torpedo bay. In 2285, a travel pod connected here to offload Admiral Kirk's inspection crew before the Enterprise departed on a training cruise. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
On Template:ShipClass ships like the Enterprise-D, docking ports were located on Deck 25 on either side of the forward torpedo launcher in the stardrive section. The Enterprise docked at Starbase 74 (TNG: "11001001") and Starbase 133 (TNG: "Remember Me") via these ports. The Enterprise also docked at Deep Space 9 in this manner (TNG: "Birthright, Part I"; DS9: "Emissary"), as did the USS Odyssey. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar") Another Galaxy class starship, the USS Venture, had a docking port on the extreme port tip of its saucer section and connected to Deep Space 9 at this location. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior", "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", "Sacrifice of Angels")
The Intrepid class USS Voyager had three docking ports on the rim of its primary hull, which it used to dock at DS9 (VOY: "Caretaker") and a Markonian outpost (VOY: "Survival Instinct") At least one of these ports connected directly to Cargo Bay 2 and could be used to decompress the bay. In 2374, Commander Chakotay decompressed the cargo bay to eliminate the Borg drones occupying the bay during Voyager's uneasy truce with the Borg following the Species 8472 invasion. (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II")
The Template:ShipClass USS Defiant could dock with Deep Space 9 through a port on the nose of the ship, above the main deflector dish. (DS9: "The Search, Part I", "Defiant", "The Dogs of War")
- Curiously, the docking port is not readily visible on the exterior of the Defiant.
Specialized docking ports can also be used to connect auxiliary craft directly to a starship, such as the captain's yacht on Galaxy and Sovereign class ships (Star Trek: Insurrection), the aeroshuttle on the Intrepid class, and the waverider shuttlecraft on the Nova class, all located on the ventral side of their respective saucer sections.