Explosive decompression
Explosive decompression is a violent, sudden drop in ambient air pressure that occurs within one tenth of a second when in space.

Opening, disabling, or the failure of the containment fields around airlocks and external hatches, such as those found in shuttlebays and cargo bays, or a major hull breach while in any environment of substantially lower pressure, will result in an explosive decompression. Decompressing the main shuttlebay aboard a  starship would cause a reaction sufficient enough to move the ship. ()

In 2154,  lost several crew members, including Jane Taylor, to an explosive decompression during the Battle of Azati Prime. ()

In 2233 of the alternate reality, at least one  officer was blown into space through a hull breach during a battle with the Narada. ()

In 2256, at the Battle of the Binary Stars, Ensign Danby Connor was killed when a hull breach on the  caused explosive decompression of the brig. As her cell force fields began to fail, Commander Michael Burnham used explosive decompression as a means to propel herself towards the habitable area of the ship, saving her life in the process. ()

The following year, two  crewmembers were blown into space when the ship's hull was breached during the Battle near Xahea. , Commander D. Nhan, and Control inside Leland's body, who had been engaged in hand-to-hand combat in that corridor, managed to hold on until an emergency bulkhead closed and sealed the breach. ()

In 2259 of the alternate reality, the  caught up with the  mid-warp and fired at the starboard section of the engineering hull, breaching the bulkhead and blowing out several crewmembers. A while later, Lieutenant Commander  opened the airlock in Hanger 7 aboard the Vengeance to allow access for Captain  and . A Section 31 security officer was blown into space as a result. ()

In 2263 of the alternate reality, the Enterprise was destroyed by Krall's army of swarm ships above Altamid as they violently tore through both hulls in various sections, blowing countless crewmembers out into space. ()

In 2364, several members of the 's bridge crew, who were suffering from polywater intoxication, opened an emergency hatch and were blown out into space. Commander William T. Riker had initially indicated that they were "sucked out" into space before being corrected by Lieutenant Commander Data, stating that Riker's comment was a "common mistake". ()

In 2367, the  attempted to remove  from its dorsal section by depressurizing Shuttlebay 2. The explosive decompression failed to dislodge the alien baby though. ()

That same year, after the Enterprise-D began experiencing strange subspace phenomena inside a nebula, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered a course out of the nebula at warp one. This resulted in an explosive decompression on deck 37. ()

In 2368, the Enterprise-D decompressed its main shuttlebay in order to avoid a collision with the . ()

When Dukat was a Glinn serving aboard the Cardassian starship Kornaire, one of his duties was to clean out a compartment where three men had been killed by explosive decompression. In 2374, he told Captain Benjamin Sisko that he "didn't sleep for a week after that". ()

In 2372, the  experienced an explosive decompression on deck 15 which killed Ensign Harry Kim. ()

While in command of Voyager in 2374, Chakotay ordered an explosive decompression to kill the Borg in Cargo Bay 2. Only one Borg drone, Seven of Nine, managed to survive. ()

During the Battle in the Bassen Rift in 2379, the Reman warbird Scimitar launched a volley of photon torpedoes at the 's bridge, resulting in an explosive decompression which killed Lieutenant Branson. ()

In 2381, the crew of the  was put through various holographic training drills by Shari yn Yem. Ensign Beckett Mariner was given a test to deal with the crew suffering from Polywater intoxication. The sight of the simulated crew, who were naked and participating in an orgy, was too much for Mariner, and she opened the airlock to jettison the holographic crew, as well as herself, so as to end the simulation. ()

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