Starfleet Charter
TheStarfleet Charter was thelegal document which establishedStarfleet during the late2120s or early2130s. (ENT: "Detained", "Vox Sola", "Horizon", "Twilight";DS9: "Inquisition")
Article 14, Section 31 of the Charter made allowances for bendingStarfleet regulations in times of extraordinary threat. This section was cited as the foundation forSection 31 even into the late24th century. (ENT: "Divergence";DS9: "Inquisition")
A "few years prior" to Starfleet being chartered,Jonathan Archer was said that he "gave serious thought to serving on acargo ship," but said the reason for changing his mind was a "long story." (ENT: "Horizon")
In2152,T'Pol transmitted a copy of the Starfleet Charter, among other records, to jam the sensors onTandar Prime in an elaborate attempt tobeam downMalcolm Reed undetected. (ENT: "Detained")
With the incorporation of theUnited Federation of Planets in2161, Starfleet was given a charter "to boldly go where no man has gone before." (ENT: "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II",computer readout)
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In the late2250s,Saru ordered a fleet controlled byControl to surrender, doing so by authority granted him under the Starfleet Charter as well as theArticles of the Federation. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")
The followingstarships werededicated with the Charter phrase "to boldly go where no man has gone before" or the similar phrase "to boldly go where no one has gone before:"
- Enterprise NX-01 –2150
- USSFranklin (NX-326) –2160s
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701) –2245
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701-A) –2286
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701-B) –2293
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701-C) –2332
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701-D) –2363
- USSEnterprise (NCC-1701-E) –2372
In addition, the quote was engraved onto an historical sailing ship's steering wheel on theEnterprise-A in2287. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
WhenQ requested to join the crew of theUSSEnterprise-D in2365, but felt mocked byCaptainJean-Luc Picard's response, Picard explained, "That is the last thing I would do. You are part of our charter. We seek out new life forms and you are one of the most unique. To learn about you is, frankly, provocative. But you're next of kin to chaos." (TNG: "Q Who")
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- Starfleet Charter atMemory Beta, the wiki for licensedStar Trek works