- For additional meanings of "Corridor", please see Corridor.
Corridors located within starships and space stations have
typically served as pathways or passageways to various stations
or quarters, and as lengthy hallways through which one might
access various rooms. In order to maximize the use of space
aboard Starfleet vessels, the corridor system was designed to
provide more than simply access from room to room. Several
safety and survival features were built into the walls and
ceilings, as were running lights to indicate whenever the
starship was operating under alert status. Corridors on board
Starfleet vessels were usually of two types: radial (those which
run outward, pointing toward the outer hull) and concentric
(those which lie in rings, interconnecting the radial
corridors). The angled surfaces of each concealed different
support structures. Radial corridors were angled on either side.
Their walls concealed a variety of supply lines and conduction
systems, data networks, and power trunks. These sys