In the world of Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek," the bulk of the galaxy is overseen by an off-screen mega-bureaucracy called the United Federation of Planets, or just the Federation for short.

Realizing that no self-respecting galactic colonization force can conquer other planets without a proper flag, Oskar Pernefeldt ... worked well for the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek ...

Debuting at the height of the US-Soviet Space Race, Star Trek offered an alternative to the adversarial ideology then underlying space exploration in the United Federation of Planets. A kind of ...

It was a safe world of respect and communication and care and, sometimes, fun." The United Federation of Planets, founded in 2161, is a multi-planetary government, with numerous alien species ...

The United Federation of Planets may hold itself up as a futuristic utopia but it also has a dark underbelly. Covert intelligence organization Section 31 carries out the missions Starfleet ...