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Security is a fictional Starfleet branch in the Star Trek universe, first introduced in the original Star Trek (TOS) with the USS Enterprise's compliment of "redshirt" security guards, many of whom meet a quick death. In Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), the main characters Tasha Yar and Worf are both both security officers.
Starfleet Security is also an agency within Starfleet.
Star Trek: The Original Series
In the era depicted in the original Star Trek, security personnel frequently enter a dangerous situation with the main characters and are killed, demonstrating the hazardousness of the situation and creating dramatic tension. Their red uniform led to the expression "redshirt" to describe an expendable character in a work of fiction (and especially science fiction).
The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine
Security personnel have bigger roles in the series set in the 24th century, with security officers Tasha Yar and Worf being recurring characters on The Next Generation. Some plots center on these characters. In Star Trek: Deep Space 9, security personnel are deployed around Earth to defend the planet against a perceived Dominion threat in "Homefront".
The Starfleet Security agency is complicit in working with Starfleet Intelligence to recover an illegal Starfleet cloaking device in "The Pegasus". Heads of Starfleet Security include Vice Admiral Thomas Henry (TNG: "The Drumhead") and Admiral Raner ("The Pegasus"). Admiral Toddman is the first Starfleet admiral to appear wearing a gold uniform ("The Die is Cast").
Notable personnel
- Ensign Garrovick: A Starfleet Security officer from the episode Obsession (TOS episode).
- Lieutenant Leslie: Career security guard onboard the USS Enteprise (NCC-1701)
- Lieutenant Galloway: Only other security guard, besides Mr. Leslie, to appear in two episodes of The Original Series. Killed in the The Omega Glory (TOS episode).
- Pavel Chekov: According to numerous Pocket Books novels, in between his tour as Navigator onboard the Enterprise, and Executive Officer of the USS Reliant, Chekov served as Security Chief of the Enterprise with most of this service as a Lieutenant Commander in the non-canon (but much assumed) second five year voyage of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) circa 2373 and 2378.
- Worf: Security Chief onboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
- Tasha Yar: Worf's predecessor, killed in the line of the duty
- Michael Eddington: Starfleet security defector
- Admiral Raner: Head of Starfleet Security (TNG: "The Pegasus") and implicated in wrongdoing during the cloaking device incident.
See also
References
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- Pocket Books, Star Trek Original Series novel "Bloodthirst": A Star trek novel written entirely from the perspective of a Starfleet Security guard
- Klingon Covert Operations Manual, published 1987
- Starfleet Dynamics, published 1991