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The United Federation of Planets, abbreviated as UFP and usually referred to as "the Federation", is a fictional interstellar federal republic composed of planetary sovereignties depicted in the fictional ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise. The planetary governments agree to exist semi-autonomously under a single central government based on the Utopian principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality, and to share their knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation and space exploration. In those episodes and films, the Federation is described as an interstellar federal polity with, as of the year 2373, more than 150 member planets and thousands of colonies spread across some 8,000,000 cubic light years of the Milky Way Galaxy taking the form of a Post-capitalist Libertarianism and constitutional republic. The social structure within the Federation is classless and operates within a money-less "New World Economy". The Federation is described as stressing, at least nominally, the values of universal liberty, equality, justice, peace, and cooperation. The Federation also maintains its own quasi-militaristic and scientific exploratory agency, known as Starfleet (also written as "Star Fleet" in some texts). Starfleet is seen handling many other governmental processes, sometimes with no other agency's influence, such as border defense, diplomatic envoy and has seen extensive use as an offensive military force. The television series and films depict Earth and humanity as holding a center-stage political role within the Federation, in some ways first among equals. The legislature, the Federation Council, is located at the Presidio of San Francisco.〔This is established in ''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'' and corroborated in the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' installment "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II".〕 Several other bodies of the Federation have been depicted. There is an executive branch headed by a Federation President,〔''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''〕 who keeps offices in the Palais de la Concorde in Paris. There is a judiciary branch as well, the highest court of which is the Federation Supreme Court.〔This is referred to in "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.〕 The Federation's scientific, diplomatic and defensive/military arm is Starfleet, depicted as being headquartered at Fort Baker, just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. The Federation comes into military conflict with other major powers in the galaxy such as the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Borg, and the Dominion. The United Federation of Planets has existed as part of the ''Star Trek'' universe since the first season of the original series and is the primary focus of all the ''Star Trek'' series. Several episodes of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' follow events leading up the creation of the Federation, with the final episode featuring the signing of the Federation Charter. ==Conception== The first mention of the United Federation of Planets was in the 1967 episode "A Taste of Armageddon", although other vague references such as just "the Federation" or to the "United Earth Space Probe Agency" were used in prior episodes. As part of the anti-war message he wanted the show to convey, ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry intended to depict the Federation as if it was like an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations. In several following episodes of the original series that were intended as allegories to the then-current Cold War tensions, the Federation took on the role resembling NATO while the Klingons represented the Soviet Union. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Federation of Planets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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