Central power linkage
A central power linkage linked power to vital areas on starships, including inertial dampers and life support. It was a technology utilized by both Starfleet runabouts and Kobliad transports.

In 2369, Chief Miles O'Brien found that something had drained power from nearly every system on the runabout  but could not find the cause. After Commander Benjamin Sisko suggested something may have been wrong with the ship's central power linkage, O'Brien told him that he had completed a level 1 diagnostic and had found nothing wrong with it. The power drain was later revealed to have been caused by an embryonic lifeform from the Gamma Quadrant. ()

Later that year, the central power linkage on the Kobliad transport Reyab was destroyed after the criminal Rao Vantika started a fire while trying to escape. Ty Kajada then sent a distress call which was picked up by the . ()

Energy technology