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Zero gravity is the natural weightless environment of space.

The command module of the Ares IV, an Earth spaceship, had a zero gravity environment. (VOY: "One Small Step")

By 2151, artificial gravity had been invented to counter zero gravity. However, every ship still had an area where zero gravity was maintained. Travis Mayweather called the area the "sweet spot" during his youth aboard the ECS Horizon. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

A location aboard the ECS Fortunate was intentionally kept at a zero, or low, gravity environment. There, members of the crew could throw a baseball through the low gravity area while standing in an artificial gravity zone. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")

Although artificial gravity was usually maintained in most sections of a starship, a vessel's environment can revert to its natural zero gravity state when its artificial gravity systems fail.

For examples of this, see artificial gravity.

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