Downlink
A downlink was a connection between computers which involved the transmission of information from an artificial satellite, space station, or spacecraft to the surface of a planetary body. This was the opposite of an uplink.

In 1996, after the  attempted to transport the 29th century timeship Aeon, Henry Starling managed to access Voyager's computer core using the ship's transporter beam as a downlink. Every time B'Elanna Torres tried to disable the downlink, Starling came up with a new command override. Starling then accessed the ship's propulsion systems and knocked inertial dampers offline. Torres destabilized the matter stream and took the transporters offline, but Starling downloaded at least twenty percent of the computer core's  files to his personal computer before the downlink was terminated. ()

See also
 Datalink
 Interlink

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Computer technology