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Landing pad rigel x

Shuttlepod 1 lands on Rigel X

Landing pad pernaia prime

A large landing pad on Pernaia Prime

File:Uss yangtzee kiang, emissary.jpg

The USS Yangtzee Kiang

Romulan shuttle

A Romulan shuttle in a landing pad on DS9

A landing pad is a platform on a space station or planetary installation capable of supporting small spacecraft.

In the mid-22nd century, Rigel X had a landing pad just big enough for small auxilary craft. In 2351, Shuttlepod 1 from Enterprise NX-01 landed there. (ENT: "Broken Bow")

Later that year, Enterprise visited the Vulcan monastery of P'Jem, which also possessed a landing pad, small enough for Shuttlepod 1 to land on. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")

As of 2152, Pernaia Prime had a large landing pad, capable of holding up to seven small craft. (ENT: "The Seventh")

The Cardassian-built space stations, Deep Space 9 and Empok Nor had six landing pads, though when they abandoned the latter, they sealed them. On DS9, Starfleet housed the station's complement of Danube-class runabouts there. (DS9: "Emissary", "Empok Nor" et al)

Ferengi shuttlecraft were also capable of landing on one of DS9's landing pads. (DS9: "The Magnificent Ferengi", "Profit and Lace"), as were Romulan shuttlecraft. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")

In 2369, Lieutenant Jadzia Dax and Chief Miles O'Brien launched a runabout from Runabout Pad C when they went to rescue Commander Benjamin Sisko, Major Kira Nerys, Doctor Julian Bashir, and Kai Opaka from the Gamma Quadrant. (DS9: "Battle Lines")

Later the same year, Neela killed Ensign Aquino when he discovered her attempting to set up an escape route prior to her assassination attempt on Vedek Bareil Antos. She made it look like she was going to use Pad A, when instead she meant to use Pad C. (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")

In 2370, Commander Sisko ordered a security team to meet with him on runabout pad C to rescue Major Kira Nerys from "The Circle" in the Perikian Peninsula on Bajor. (DS9: "The Circle")

Later the same year during a plasma disruption that forced the evacuation of DS9, the USS Orinoco was at Landing Pad Three in case the skeleton crew had to leave in a hurry. (DS9: "Invasive Procedures")

During the Maquis incident of 2370, Commander Sisko informed Odo and Doctor Bashir to meet him on Landing Pad C, to go on the search for Gul Dukat. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part II")

Lieutenant Jones was assigned to patrol duty near Runabout Pad E as Deep Space 9 prepared for an attack by the Dominion in 2373. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")

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