Starfleet Security
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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.
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[edit] 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).
[edit] 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 Nine, 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 -- rather than red -- uniform ("The Die is Cast").
[edit] Notable personnel
- Ensign Garrovick: Security officer in "Obsession" and son of Captain James T. Kirk's former commanding officer
- Lieutenant Leslie: Security guard aboard the USS Enteprise
- Lieutenant Galloway: Only other security guard, besides Leslie, to appear in two episodes of Star Trek. Killed in the "The Omega Glory".
- Pavel Chekov: According to numerous non-canon Pocket Books novels, serves as security chief of the Enterprise during Kirk's second five-year mission
- Tasha Yar: Security chief aboard the USS Enterprise in TNG's first season. Killed in "Skin of Evil".
- Worf: Yar's successor
- Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington: Starfleet security officer who defects to the Maquis
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Starfleet Security article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
