Starfleet General Orders and Regulations

Starfleet maintained an extensive set of policies and procedures designed to guide the conduct of its missions and personnel

General Order 1: The non-interference directive, prohibiting intervention in the normal development of any society.

General Order 7: Forbids contact with the planet Talos IV. As of 2267, the only death penalty left on the books. Spock was acquitted of violating this order after kidnapping Christopher Pike to live among the Talosians.

General Order 12: Requires adequate precautions to be taken when being approached by a spacecraft with which contact has not been made.

General Order 15: Regulation that stated, in part, "No flag officer shall beam into a hazardous area without armed escort." Saavik reminded Kirk of General Order 15 before he beamed to the Regula I Space Laboratory.

General Order 24: A command to destroy the surface of a planet unless the order is countermanded within a specified period. Kirk invoked General Order 24 at planet Eminar VII in an effort to force planetary authorities to enter peace talks with neighbouring planet Vendikar.

Order 104, Section B: Starfleet order that deals with chain of command. Commodore Matt Decker quoted regulation 104-B to Spock when taking command of the Enterprise in 2267.

Order 104, Section C: Starfleet regulation that states the Chief Medical Officer may relieve a commander of duty if the commander is mentally or physically unfit. The physician would have to back up this claim with the results of a physical examination.

Away Team Guidelines: Specifically forbid the transport of unknown infectious agents onto a starship without first establishing containment and eradication protocols.

Directive 101: Assures that an individual accused of a crime has the right to remain silent. In 2372, Voyager security Chief Tuvok informed confessed murderer Lon Suder that Starfleet Directive 101 freed him from answering questions concerning the crime.

Directive 010: "Before engaging alien species in battle...any and all attempts to make first contact and achieve a non-military solution must be made."

Omega Directive: Requires the captain of a starship to notify Starfleet Command immediately upon detection of an Omega molecule and authorises use of any means necessary to destroy it, even at the cost of violating the Prime Directive.

Regulation 46A: "If transmissions are being monitored during battle, no uncoded messages on an open channel."

Regulation 42/15: Engineering procedure relating to impulse engines, entitled "Pressure Variances in the Impulse Reaction Chamber Tank Storage." Montgomery Scott wrote this particular regulation for Starfleet, but many years later admitted that it was a wee bit conservative.

Regulation 121, Section A: Authorises the Chief Medical Officer of a starship to relieve a captain of command if the captain is mentally or emotionally unfit.

Regulation 157, Section III, Paragraph 18: Referring to time travel, "Starfleet officers shall take all necessary precautions to minimise any participation in historical events."

Regulation 476-9: "All away teams must report to the bridge at least once every 24 hours."

Security Protocol 28, Subsection D: In the event of hostile takeover of a starship, the Emergency Medical Hologram is to deactivate and wait for rescue.

Special Order 66715: Grants the Starfleet Internal Affairs Department authority to neutralise security threats to the Federations by whatever means necessary.

Starfleet's Temporal Displacement Policy: Prohibited time-travelling personnel from interfering in past time lines.

Starfleet Engineering Code: Required a secondary backup for mission-critical components, in case the primary backup fails.

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