The Brig - Deck 38
The Brig is the security detention area, used to detain individuals who are believed to have committed serious offences or are believed to pose a serious danger to other people or to the ship itself. It is situated on Deck 38 and is staffed around the clock by Security Officers, whether or not any of the cells are occupied. The Brig is a heavily guarded room that employs either gates or force fields to keep those incarcerated segregated from the general population of the vessel.
There are four holding cells within the main Brig area although should Security require there is close and easy access to a number of other holding cells. Even the Cargo Bays on the same deck can be utilised with force-fields.
Secure entrance to each cell is provided by way of a force field door which can be lowered either at the security console or on the wall adjacent to the entrance.
Brigs are commonly covered in 5 directions by bulkheads with an electrostatic force field on the sixth side, which can be turned off and on as an entrance or exit way.