Anthem of the United Federation of Planets ( listen fileВ info).Encountering numerous clashing ideologies, some conflicts escalated into significant resistance, such as armed conflict, and even temporal incursions intended to prevent key historical events from occurring. In the alternate reality, Captain Christopher Pike described the Federation as a ' peacekeeping and humanitarian armada.' ( Star Trek)ДЇederation culture, values, and technology had vast influence across space and time, as well as other dimensions and subspace domains. ( TOS: ' The Cage', ' Where No Man Has Gone Before', ' Journey to Babel') Starfleet was incorporated to maintain exploratory, scientific, diplomatic, and defense functions. ( DS9: ' Paradise Lost' VOY: ' Author, Author') ( TOS: ' Errand of Mercy', ' A Private Little War' Star Trek Nemesis ENT: ' United') The Federation's various member worlds joined voluntarily ( TNG: ' Attached' DS9: ' Emissary', ' Rapture' VOY: ' The Void') and were equals in the Federation's democratic society. Unlike its imperial rivals, who derived power from a single species subjugating other races. ( Star Trek: First Contact)ДЄt its height, it numbered three hundred and fifty members. The total number of formal member worlds was over one hundred and fifty in the 24th century. One of the most powerful interstellar states in known space, it encompassed eight thousand light years. Additional nomenclature used to describe the Federation included: ' Earth Federation' in TOS: ' Friday's Child' and TAS: ' The Lorelei Signal', ' Federation of Planets' in TOS: ' A Piece of the Action', and ' United Fleet of Planets' (incorrectly, by Lokai of the planet Cheron) in TOS: ' Let That Be Your Last Battlefield'.

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