Bulkhead

A bulkhead was a wall-like partition in a starship or space station used to aid structural integrity.

Captain Jonathan Archer identified a part of a building of the Terra Nova colony as a bulkhead of the . The colony ship was dismantled and its parts were used to build the colony. This specific bulkhead was from the ship's B-deck, section 14. ()

Bulkheads were numbered and divided a ship into separate parts to help keep its rigidity. Bulkheads in Starfleet vessels built in the 24th century, specifically of the  and , were composed of tritanium alloy and could be reinforced with shields to enhance the ship's overall structural integrity. (; )

Bulkhead 342 was located within the forward part of the saucer section of a Galaxy-class starship. When Doctor Beverly Crusher was trapped within a static warp bubble in 2367, her thoughts created a duplicate of the  that gradually disappeared as the bubble collapsed. The initial parts of the ship to vanish were on decks 5 through 14, forward of bulkhead 342. ()

In case of structural failure, a bulkhead could be beamed away and temporarily replaced by a force field. ()

In 2369, the bulkheads aboard space station Deep Space 9 were broken by several hull breaches caused by graviton pulses of the embryonic lifeform. ()

While searching the debris of destroyed  attack cruiser , Jadzia Dax and Miles O'Brien found pieces of the ship's secondary hull and bulkheads in the debris. ()

Jadzia Dax claimed she could hear Kor snoring through the bulkheads of the  in 2372. ()

Elim Garak had "a sudden and somewhat violent encounter with a bulkhead" when the  was attacked by the Dominion early in the Dominion War. ()

Members of Species 8472 were immensely strong, able to dismember humanoids and rip through bulkheads with ease. ()

See also 
Emergency bulkhead
Transverse bulkhead

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Spacecraft components