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A cargo bay or cargo hold is a general purpose storage facility aboard shuttles, starships and starbases.
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Galaxy-class 
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Cargo bays are often equipped with large transporters to assist in the moving of cargo containers. However, aboard Galaxy-class starships, cargo bays located in the stardrive section did not have transporters. In that situation, cargo was directed into the bay by a transporter chief operating in a transporter room. (TNG: "11001001", "The Child")
Cargo bays have been used in a variety of ways other than typical storage, including triage centers, brigs, and stasis unit facilities.
Cargo Bay 4 aboard the USS Enterprise-D was located close to the outside of the ship and could be decompressed easily by blowing the cargo bay hatch. (TNG: "Power Play")
Deep Space 9 Edit
In 2369 Jake Sisko was late for dinner with his father. The computer located him in Cargo Bay 14 where he was tutoring Nog in reading. (DS9: "The Nagus")
Nog and Jake Sisko met a Lissepian captain in Cargo Bay 9 in 2369 to barter some Cardassian yamok sauce for self-sealing stem bolts. (DS9: "Progress")
Constable Odo told Commander Sisko and Chief O'Brien to take Crossover Bridge 1 which would lead them into the cargo bay and Docking Port 4. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae")
After Keiko O'Brien's school was destroyed by a bomb, Commander Sisko granted her permission to resume teaching her students in a cargo bay. (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
When Nog requested a recommendation from Commander Sisko to enter Starfleet Academy, Sisko decided to test Nog's seriousness by asking him to inventory the contents of Cargo Bay 4. Nog completed the task in a mere five hours, and found items that had been overlooked in the previous inventory. (DS9: "Heart of Stone")
Miles O'Brien used one of Deep Space 9's cargo bays to install a dart board in 2371. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")
Intrepid-class Edit
The USS Voyager had several bays with the designation "Cargo Bay 2". One had variable environmental controls and was designed for organic storage. It was converted to a hydroponics bay by Kes in 2371 in order to allow for the growth of foods for consumption. Another was located on Deck 4 and suffered a massive hull breach when a Kazon shuttle intentionally collided into it in 2372. In 2374, the Borg assimilated a third "Cargo Bay 2" during an alliance with Voyager. After the alliance, four Borg alcoves remained in the bay and it went back to normal cargo storage. This "Cargo Bay 2", however, was located on Deck 8. (VOY: "Parallax", "Maneuvers", "Scorpion, Part II", "Equinox", "The Gift")
The USS Voyager had two cargo bays, one on Deck 4 (Cargo Bay 1) and one on Deck 8. Cargo Bay 2 was in section four, and was used for the storage of spare components and surplus materials. (VOY: "Drone")
Voyager's maximum cargo capacity was 35,750 metric tonnes. (citation needed • edit) At one point in 2377, two deuterium tanks were beamed out of Cargo Bay 2. (VOY: "The Void")
Constitution-class Edit
In 2266, the Constitution-class starship USS Enterprise beamed down cargo supplies to the Tantalus V penal colony. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")
In 2267, the USS Enterprise was en route to Makus III with a cargo of medical supplies. (TOS: "The Galileo Seven")
While cargo bay is the designation for goods to be delivered to another starship, a starbase, or colony, ship stores is the designation for crew supplies storage.
The episodes TOS: "Charlie X", TOS: "A Private Little War", TOS: "Assignment: Earth", mentioned ship stores.
The USS Enterprise's 2271 refit had one large cavernous cargo bay, in the ship's secondary hull, that could be flown into directly from space by shuttlecraft and cargo management units carrying cargo containers. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) This cargo bay had three levels:
top level – shuttlecraft flight deck, CMU stations;
mid level – cargo bays, shuttlecraft elevator, shuttlecraft hangar deck, lifeboats;
low level – cargo bays
Other ships Edit
In 2369, someone broke into the cargo bay of the Kobliad transport ship Reyab when it docked at Deep Space 9, to steal a computer chip with a map of the Humanoid brain. (DS9: "The Passenger")
Under the influence of the Saltah'na, Major Kira Nerys asked Constable Odo to slip through the security system of a Valerian transport and into their cargo bay to check if their shipment included dolamide. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae")
