To maintain interplanetary peace and security within the treaty exploration territory, and to that end : to take effective collective measures for the prevention of threats to the peace, the suppression of acts of aggression, and to bring about by peaceful means, and employing the principles of justice and intra-galactic law, adjustment or settlement of interplanetary disputes which might lead to a breach of the peace;

To develop friendly relations among planets based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of intelligent life-forms, and to other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

To achieve interplanetary cooperation in solving intra-galactic problems of economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character; in promoting and encouraging respect for intelligent life-form rights; and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to culture, sex, life-form, or religious belief; and

To be a centre for concilience of the actions of all social systems in the attainment of these common ends.

The Federation is based on the sovereign equality of all its members;

In order to ensure to all of them equal rights and benefits resulting from membership, all members shall fulfil in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with These Articles of Federation;

All members shall settle their interplanetary disputes by peaceful means in such manner that intra-galactic peace, security, and justice, are not endangered;

In all interplanetary relations, all members shall refrain from the threat, or use, of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any planetary social system, or in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Federation;

All members shall give the United Federation every assistance in any action taken in accordance with These Articles of Federation, and shall refrain from assisting any planetary social system against which the Federation is taking preventive or enforcement action;

The United Federation shall ensure that planetary social systems which are not members of the Federation act in accordance with these principles as necessary for the maintenance of intra-galactic peace and security;

Nothing within these Articles of Federation shall authorize the Federation to intervene in matters which are essentially the domestic jurisdiction of any planetary social system, or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement under these Articles of Federation; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.

Membership in the United Federation is open to any other peaceful planetary social systems which accept the obligations contained in These Articles of Federation and, in the judgment of the Federation, are capable and willing to carry out these obligations;

The admission of any such planetary social system to membership in the United Federation of Planets is contingent upon the decision of the supreme assembly upon recommendation of the Federation council.

There are established as the principle agencies of the United Federation of Planets: a Supreme Assembly, a Federation Council, an economic and social council, a trusteeship council, an interplanetary supreme court of justice, a Star Fleet combined peace-keeping force, and a Secretariat;

Such subsidiary agencies as may be deemed necessary from time to time may be established in accordance with these Articles of Federation;

The Supreme Assembly may consider the general principles of cooperation in maintaining interplanetary peace and security, including disarmament and the regulation of armaments, and may make recommendations with regard to such principles to the members or the Federation Council or to both;

The Supreme Assembly may discuss any questions relative to the maintenance of intra-galactic peace and security put to it by any member or the Federation council, or a non-member planetary social system in accordance with Article 25 Paragraph 2 and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations with regard to any such questions to the members, the Federation Council, or the pleading planetary social system, or to all of them. Any such question on which action is necessary shall be referred to the Federation Council by the supreme assembly either before or after discussion;

The Supreme Assembly may call situations which are likely to endanger the interplanetary and intra-galactic peace and security to the attention of the Federation Council;

The powers of the Supreme Assembly as set forth in this Article shall not limit the scope of Article 10;

Where the Federation Council is executing the functions assigned to it under these Articles of Federation with respect to any dispute or situation, the Supreme Assembly shall make no recommendation with regard to that dispute or situation unless so requested by the Federation Council;

The Supreme-secretariat, with the consent of the Federation Council, shall notify the Supreme Assembly at each session of any matters relating to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security which are under discussion in the Federation Council, and shall notify the Supreme Assembly, or the members if the Supreme Assembly is not in session, immediately when the Federation Council completes its deliberations on any such matters;

The Supreme Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of:

The further responsibilities, functions, and powers of the supreme assembly with respect to matters mentioned in Paragraph 1(B) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X;

The Supreme Assembly shall receive and consider regular and special reports from the Federation Council; which reports shall include an account of the measures that the Federation Council has decided upon or taken to maintain interplanetary peace and security;

The Supreme Assembly shall receive and consider reports from the other agencies of the united Federation on agreed upon regular periods or reporting;

The Supreme Assembly shall consider and approve the budget of the United Federation of Planets;

The expenses of the United Federation of Planets shall be borne by the members as apportioned by the Supreme Assembly;

The Supreme Assembly shall consider and approve any financial and budgetary agreements with specialized agencies referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making recommendations to the agencies concerned;

All budgets of, and expenses of the United Federation shall be made and paid in the common interplanetary credit. The common interplanetary credit shall be the official medium of exchange within the united Federation treaty exploration territory;

Each member of the Supreme Assembly shall have one vote;

Decisions of the Supreme Assembly on important questions shall be made on a two-thirds (2/3) majority vote of the members present and voting. These questions shall include: recommendations with respect to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security; the election of non-permanent members to the Federation Council; the election of members of the trusteeship council in accordance with Paragraph 1(C) of Article 86; the admission of new members to the Federation; the suspension of the rights and privileges of membership; the expulsion of members; questions relating to the operation of the trusteeship system; and budgetary questions;

Decisions on other questions, including the determination of additional categories of questions to be decided by a two-thirds (2/3) majority, shall be made by a majority vote of the members present and voting;

The Federation Council shall consist of eleven (11) members of the United Federation. The United Nations of the planet Earth, the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani, the United Planets of 61 Cygni, the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii, and the Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets shall be permanent members of the Federation Council. The Supreme Assembly shall elect six (6) other members of the United Federation to be non-permanent members of the Federation Council, due regard being especially paid, in the first instance, to the contribution of the members to the United Federation to the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security and to the other purposes of the Federation, and also to equitable geo-galactic distribution;

The non permanent members of the Federation Council shall be elected for a term of two (2) session periods. In the first election of non-permanent members, however, three (3) shall be elected for a term of one (1) session period. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election;

In order to assure prompt and effective action by the United Federation of Planets, its members confer on the Federation Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Federation Council acts on their behalf;

In discharging these duties the Federation Council shall act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Federation. The specific powers granted to the Federation Council for the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, VIII, and XII;

The Federation Council shall submit regular and, when necessary, special reports to the Supreme Assembly for its consideration;

Each member of the Federation Council shall have one vote;

Decisions of the Federation Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven (7) members;

Decisions of the Federation Council on all other matters shall be made on an affirmative vote of seven (7) members including the concurring votes of the permanent members, provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under Paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to the dispute shall refrain from voting;

The Federation Council shall be so organized as to be able to function continuously. Each member of the Federation Council shall, for this purpose, be represented at all times at the seat of the Federation;

The Federation Council shall hold periodic meetings at which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a member of its government or by some other specially designated representative;

The Federation Council may hold meetings at such places other than the seat of the Federation as in its judgement will facilitate its work;

The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice;

The Federation Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their disputes by such means;

Any member of the United Federation may bring any dispute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the attention of the Federation Council or the Supreme Assembly;

A planetary social system which is not a member of the United Federation of Planets may bring to the attention of the Federation Council or the supreme assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in advance, for the purposes of disputes, the obligation of pacific settlement provided in these Articles of Federation;

The proceedings of the Supreme Assembly in respect to matters brought to its attention under this Article will be subject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12;

The Federation Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, recommend procedures or appropriate methods of adjustment;

The Federation Council shall take into consideration any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties;

In making recommendations under the Article the Federation Council should also take into consideration that legal disputes should as a general rule be referred to the interplanetary supreme court of justice in accordance with the provisions of the statute of the court;

Should the parties to a dispute as referred to in Article 33 fail to settle it by means indicated in that Article, they shall refer it to the Federation Council;

If the Federation Council deems that the continuance of the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms as it may consider appropriate;

There shall be established within Star Fleet a Military Staff Committee to advise and assist the Federation Council on all matters relating to the United Federation's military requirements for maintaining interplanetary peace and security;

The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the chiefs of staff of the permanent members of the Federation Council, or their representatives. Any member of the United Federation may be invited to provide representation on the Military Staff Committee where its responsibilities requires the participation of that member in its work;

The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of the Federation council, shall establish a Star Fleet as the armed, peace-keeping, forces of the United Federation of Planets. It shall be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of all facilities of Star Fleet, including armed ships, starbases, and training facilities;

The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under the Federation council for the strategic direction of Star Fleet armed forces, and the other armed forces of the members when required for the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security;

There is established a Star Fleet as the armed peace-keeping forces of the United Federation of Planets. It shall initially be comprised of contingents assigned to it by members of the United Federation under Article 43 until such time as facilities, recruitment, and training obviates the necessity of drawing upon the armament of any member, except as provided in Article 49;

The operations and actions of Star Fleet shall at all times be under the direct cognizance of the Federation Council and the Military Staff Committee which shall also prepare and approve the budget for Star Fleet operations;

Initial expenditure is authorized under these Articles of Federation for the establishment of a Star Fleet Headquarters and two starbases to be equitably located within the boundary of the United Federation of Planets and outside of any possible conflict with the territorial boundaries of any member of the United Federation. The Federation Council shall review and approve such other expansions of starbases and other facilities as shall seem appropriate from time to time in the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security;

Initial expenditure is also granted under these Articles of Federation for the establishment of a Star Fleet Academy for the purpose of training officers and personnel for Star Fleet duty. The standards for training such officers and personnel shall be determined by the Military Staff Committee and approved by the Federation Council;

Initial expenditure is granted under these Articles of Federation for the design, procurement, and operation of fourteen (14) heavy cruiser type of starships to provide the nucleus of Star Fleet's peace-keeping armed forces. These cruisers shall be capable of extended duration patrol of intra-galactic range, with weaponry appropriate to such class of starships. They shall be provided with fire-power superior to that now employed by any member of the United Federation, and appropriate to the tasks expected of them;

Expenditure is also granted under these Articles of Federation for the procurement and construction of such lesser classes of space forces as shall be required to support Star Fleet operations and the heavy cruiser class of starships. These may be, but not necessarily limited to, types such as scouts, destroyers, transports, re-supply, shuttlecraft, and survey ships;

The training of base personnel and ship complements shall include all fields of science and technology as well as the military arts in Star Fleet. It is the intent of these Articles of Federation that Star Fleet shall be used to conduct missions of scientific exploration and investigation within the treaty exploration territory whenever its services are not required in the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security;

Star Fleet headquarters and the Federation Council shall be at all times kept informed of the activities undertaken, or contemplated, for the scientific exploration and investigation of the treaty exploration territory. Any ship so employed shall be detached from military fleet duty and re-assigned as a non-military scientific unit of the United Federation.

The various specialized agencies, established by interplanetary agreement and having wide interplanetary responsibilities as defined in their basic instruments in economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields, shall be brought into relationship with the United Federation in accordance with Article 63;

Such agencies thus brought into relationship with the United Federation are hereafter referred to as specialized agencies;

The economic and social council shall consist of eighteen (18) members of the United Federation as elected by the Supreme Assembly;

Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, six (6) members of the economic and social council shall be elected each session for a term of three (3) session periods. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election;

At the first election, eighteen (18) members of the economic and social council shall be chosen, the term of office of six (6) members so chosen will expire at the end of one (1) session period, and the terms of six (6) other members at the end of two (2) session periods in accordance with arrangements made by the Supreme Assembly;

Each member of the economic and social council shall have one (1) representative;

The economic and social council may make or initiate studies and reports with respect to interplanetary economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related matters and may make recommendations with respect to any such matters to the Supreme Assembly, to the members of the United Federation, and to specialized agencies concerned;

It may make recommendations for the purpose of promoting respect for, and observance of, intelligent life-form rights and fundamental freedoms for all;

It may prepare draft instruments with the rules prescribed by the United Federation;

It may prepare draft instruments for admission to the Supreme Assembly, with respect to matters falling within its competence;

It may call, in accordance with the rules prescribed by the United Federation, interplanetary conferences on matters falling within its competence;

The economic and social council may enter into agreements with any of its agencies referred to in Article 57, defining the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into relationship with the United Federation. Such agreements shall be subject to approval by the Supreme Assembly;

It may coordinate the activities of the specialized agencies through consultation with and recommendations to such agencies and through recommendations to the Supreme Assembly and to the members of the United Federation;

The economic and social council shall perform such functions as fall within its competence in connection with the carrying out of the recommendations of the Supreme Assembly;

It may, with the approval of the Supreme Assembly, perform services at the request of members of the United Federation and at the request of specialized agencies;

It shall perform such other functions as are specified elsewhere in these Articles of Federation or as may be assigned to it by the Supreme Assembly;

Each member of the economic and social council shall have one vote;

Decisions of the economic and social council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting;

The economic and social council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its director;

The economic and social council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members.

To further interplanetary peace and security;

To promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust regions, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each region and its intelligent life forms concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of the trusteeship agreement;

To encourage respect for intelligent life-form rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to culture, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the inter-dependence of the intelligent life-forms of the galaxy; and

To ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and commercial matters for all members of the United Federation and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the adjustment of foregoing objectives and subject to the provisions of Article 80;

The trusteeship system shall apply to such regions in the following categories as may be placed thereunder by means of trusteeship agreements:

It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which regions in the foregoing categories will be brought under the trusteeship system and upon what terms;

Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 77, 79, and 81, placing each region under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any social systems or any intelligent life forms or the terms of existing agreements to which members of the United Federation may respectively be parties;

Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation and conclusion of agreements for placing mandated and other regions under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 77;

All functions of the United Federation relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their subsequent alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Federation Council;

The basic principles set forth in Article 76 shall apply to the intelligent life-forms of each strategic area;

The Federation Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the trusteeship council to perform those functions of the United Federation under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, and educational matters in the strategic areas;

The functions of the United Federation with regard to trusteeship agreements for all regions not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Supreme Assembly;

The trusteeship council, operating under the authority of the Supreme Assembly, shall assist the Supreme Assembly in carrying out these functions.

The trusteeship council shall consist of the following members of the United Federation:

Each member of the trusteeship council shall designate one (1) specially qualified intelligent life-form to represent it therein;

Each member of the trusteeship council shall have one vote;

Decisions of the trusteeship council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting;

The trusteeship council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its director;

The trusteeship council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules which shall include a provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members;

All members of the United Federation are 'ipso facto' parties to the statute of the interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice;

A social system which is not a member of the United Federation may become a party to the statute of the interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice on conditions to be determined in each case by the Supreme Assembly upon the recommendation of the Federation Council;

Each member of the United Federation undertakes to comply with the decisions of the interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party;

If any party in a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgement rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Federation Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgement;

The Supreme Assembly or the Federation Council may request the interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question;

Other bodies of the United Federation and the specialized agencies, which may at any time be so authorized by the Supreme Assembly, may also request advisory opinions of the Court on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities.

In the performance of their duties the Supreme-secretariat and the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the United Federation of Planets. They shall refrain from any action which might reflect on their positions as interplanetary officials responsible only to the United Federation;

Each member of the United Federation undertakes to respect the exclusively interplanetary character of the responsibilities of the Supreme-secretariat and the staff and shall not seek to influence them in the discharge of their responsibilities;

The staffs shall be appointed by the Supreme-secretariat under regulations established by the Supreme Assembly;

Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the economic and social council, the trusteeship council, and, as required, to other bodies of the United Federation. These staffs shall form a part of the Secretariat;

The paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geo-galactic basis as possible.

Every treaty and every interplanetary agreement entered into by any member of the United Federation after these Articles of Federation come into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Supreme Secretariat and published by him;

No party to any such treaty or interplanetary agreement which has not been registered in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement before any body of the United Federation;

The United Federation shall enjoy in the territory of each of its members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the fulfilment of its purposes;

Representatives of the members of the United Federation and officials of the organization shall similarly enjoy such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent exercise of their functions in connection with the organization;

The Supreme Assembly may make recommendations with a view to determining the details of the application of Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article or may propose conventions to the members of the United Federation for this purpose.

Pending the coming into full force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Federation Council enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Article 42, the parties to the Declaration of the United Federation shall consult with one another and the other members of the United Federation with a view to such joint action on behalf of the organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining interplanetary peace and security;

Nothing in these Articles of Federation shall invalidate or preclude action in relation to any social system which has been an adversary of any signatory to these Articles of Federation, taken or authorized as a result of that war by the governments having responsibility for such action;

A general conference of the members of the United Federation for the purpose of reviewing these Articles of Federation may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the members of the Supreme Assembly and by a vote of any seven (7) members of the Federation Council. Each member of the United Federation shall have one (1) vote in the conference;

Any alterations of these Articles of Federation recommended by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective statutory processes by two thirds (2/3) of the members of the United Federation including all the permanent members of the Federation Council;

If such conference has not been held before the tenth regular session of the Supreme Assembly following the coming into force of these Articles of Federation, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the Supreme Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the Supreme Assembly and by a vote of any seven (7) members of the Federation Council.

These Articles of Federation shall be ratified by the signatory governments in accordance with their respective statutory processes;

The ratifications shall be deposited with the government of the United Nations of the planet Earth, which shall notify all of the signatory governments of each deposit as well as the Supreme-secretariat of the organization when he has been appointed;

These Articles of Federation shall come into full force upon the deposit of the ratifications by the United Nations of the Planet Earth, the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani, the United Planets of 61 Cygni, the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii, the Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets, and by a majority of the other signatory social systems. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the government of the United Nations which shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory governments;

The governments signatory to these Articles of Federation which ratify it after it has come into force will become original members of the United Federation on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifications.