Platform
A platform was a flat surface upon which a person or object could stand. Metaphorically, it was any situation that was a means to getting a different position or title.
In 2268, James T. Kirk, Spock and Leonard McCoy knelt as Natira stepped onto a pentagonal platform and knelt in front of an obelisk with a sun-burst on it. (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
Types of platforms
- Control platform
- Docking platform
- Landing platform
- Launch platform
- Orbital platform
- Orbital sensor platform
- Orbital weapon platform
- Cardassian orbital weapon platform
- Federation orbital weapon platform
- Orbital nuclear warhead platform (aka Suborbital platform/orbital platform)
- Trajector platform
- Transporter platform