Mooring
Mooring refers to the means by which a starship is physically connected to a space station or another ship. This could have been achieved via docking clamps or Mooring beams.

The  used mooring beams. ()

When the  departed Deep Space 9 in late 2373, first officer Worf first gave the orders to clear all moorings and release docking clamps in order to clear the station's docking ring. ()

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