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| {{Afd-mergeto|Redshirt (character)|Starfleet Security |]|date=July 2007}} | |||
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| '''Security''' is a fictional ''']''' branch in the ] universe, first introduced in the original '']'' (''TOS'') with the ]'s compliment of "]" security guards, many of whom meet a quick death. In '']'' (''TNG''), the main characters ] and ] 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 "]" to describe an expendable character in a work of ] (and especially ]). | |||
| ==''The Next Generation'' and ''Deep Space Nine''== | |||
| Security personnel have bigger roles in the series set in the ], with security officers ] and ] being recurring characters on ''The Next Generation''. Some plots center on these characters. In '']'', security personnel are deployed around Earth to defend the planet against a perceived ] threat in "]". | |||
| The Starfleet Security agency is complicit in working with ] to recover an illegal Starfleet ] in "]". Heads of Starfleet Security include ] Thomas Henry (''TNG'': "]") and Admiral Raner ("The Pegasus"). Admiral Toddman is the first Starfleet admiral to appear wearing a gold -- rather than red -- ] ("]"). | |||
| ==Notable personnel== | |||
| * ] Garrovick: Security officer in "]" and son of ] ]'s former commanding officer | |||
| * ] ]: 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 "]". | |||
| * ]: According to numerous non-] ] novels, serves as security chief of the ''Enterprise'' during Kirk's second five-year mission | |||
| * ]: Security chief aboard the ] in ''TNG''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first season. Killed in "]". | |||
| * ]: Yar's successor | |||
| * ] ]: Starfleet security officer who defects to the ] | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| *] | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| {{memoryalpha|Starfleet Security}} | |||
| ] | |||
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