Shuttle Maintenance, Parts StorageDeck 19 is often simply referred to as the Cargo Deck. It is the main level of the cargo storage complex.
Just forward of the cargo holds is a tandem cargo transporter facility, which is reached by passing through a set of large double doors. Twin platforms are controlled from a common central room; loose cargo and large equipment are beamed aboard ship and carried by anti-grav to the appropriate shipboard destinations.
Three standard pads are provided on each platform for use by supervisory personnel who must oversee the transport of sensitive items. These pads are operated independently of the multisegmented cargo units.
Shuttle Maintenance, Parts StorageAft of the cargo area is the shuttlecraft maintenance shop. The rectangular shuttle elevator normally resting at the Deck 18 level lower craft to be repaired to the shop floor. Parts storage lockers line the port and starboard bulkheads of the room, and contain replacement equipment for standard shuttlecraft, aquashuttles, high-speed, and armored shuttles.
Deck 19 is the lowest level that can be accessed by the main stairwell. Ladderways provide other means by which to reach Decks 20 and 21.
Eagle's recorder-marker launch system is mounted into the space between the shuttlecraft shop's rear bulkhead and the aft outer hull. These buoys are jettisoned prior to situations where the survival of the ship is uncertain, or when a ship under radio silence wishes to be tracked at a later date by Federation vessels.
