WHO WERE THE BLUE PEOPLE WITH ANTENAE? ANDORIANS? WERE THEY A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE UFP? OR WAS IT JUST EARTH AND VULCAN AT FIRST THEN OTHERS JOINED LATER? JUST HOW MANY PLANETS COMPRISE THE UFP AND WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO THE KLINGONS BETWEEN TOG AND TNG? FREAK OF NATURE?
Okay here are the answers I have found, hope they help...
yep Andorians.
UFPThe United Federation of Planets and its members hold substantial territory in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy: as of 2373, the Federation spans some 8,000 light years (Star Trek: First Contact). Canonically, the Federation was founded in 2161 by the Andorians, Humans, Tellarites, and Vulcans.
The Federation stresses, at least nominally, the values of universal liberty, equality, peace, and cooperation. Its legislature is the Federation Council, headquartered in a building located in San Francisco. In addition there are several other bodies of the Federation. The executive branch is headed by the Federation President, who keeps his or her offices in the Palais de la Concorde, Paris. In judicial matters, the Federation Supreme Court is a final arbiter. Starfleet, headquartered at the Presidio in San Francisco, is the primary defence and exploration arm of the Federation.
The Federation is founded under a document known as the Charter of the United Federation of Planets, which is occasionally referred to informally as the "Constitution". It draws text and inspiration from the United Nations Charter and other sources. An important guiding principle - indeed, it is listed as General Order One in the list of Starfleet general orders - is the Prime Directive, which forbids any interference in the natural development of any pre-warp civilization. This is intended to prevent even well-intentioned Federation personnel from introducing changes which could destabilize or even destroy other cultures through interference. (In practice, however, the Federation does not always abide strictly by the Prime Directive, such as when it attempted to strongarm the Organians into forming an alliance with it in "Errand of Mercy" (TOS), or when it approved the forced relocation of the Ba'ku from their adopted homeworld in the film Star Trek: Insurrection). Other aspects of the Articles provide for rule of law, equality among individuals and protection of civil and creative liberties, which appears to be based on principles found in contemporary political theory. It includes a set of guarantees of civil rights, the "Seventh Guarantee" is analogous to the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and its protection against self-incrimination.
The Federation has been opposed at various times by the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Tholian Assembly, the Cardassian Union, the Tzenkethi, the Borg Collective, the Dominion, the Breen Confederacy, and the Sphere Builders; hostility has also existed with the Ferengi Alliance, the Sheliak Corporate, and the Talarian Republic, but it is unrevealed if any actual state of war with these species occurred. It seems, in fact, that the Federation has at one time or another been under hostile conditions with virtually every other major power in their vicinity.
Non-canonIn many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri being a founding world of the Federation and even having a humanlike native race called Centaurans became fanon. Later, in Star Trek: Enterprise when we actually see the founding of the Federation in the episode "These Are the Voyages..." (which, because it takes place entirely on the holodeck, may be considered to not have ever actually happened) and the negotiations that lead to it in "Demons" and "Terra Prime", Alpha Centauri is not mentioned as part of the founding, which is explicitly said to be between Earth, Vulcan, Andor and Tellar. Alpha Centauri is only ever mentioned in passing as an Earth colony in canon.
The Palais is non-canonical, appearing in the novels A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal, A Time For War, A Time For Peace, Errand of Vengeance: Seeds of Rage, and Articles of the Federation. In the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Federation Council building was depicted as being in San Francisco; however, the building was never established as the Council's permanent building, and so this can be reconciled with the non-canonical Palais de la Concorde. The Palais is said to be located on the site of the present-day Place de la Concorde. In addition, one must note the rather shoddy external aesthetic of the supposed Federation Council building depicted in Star Trek: IV, as it is hard to believe that the legislature of the United Federation of Planets, a quadrant spanning interstellar power, would be housed in such a building.
In some non-canonical works like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Articles of Federation, the document is called the Articles of Federation and has been used for decades in the fan community. However, in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Void", the text of the founding document is shown on screen (the preamble is a slightly reworded version of the UN Charter), and it is clearly called the "Charter of the United Federation of Planets", canonically establishing that as the name of the founding document. The term "Charter" is also used in Star Trek: Enterprise when the signing of the founding document is actually shown in "These Are the Voyages..." and in the DS9 episode "Accession" when discussing membership requirements for the Federation. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Drumhead" Captain Picard refers to the founding document in passing as "the Constitution", establishing that it is also known by that name.
Federation members1. Aaamazzarites
2. Acturians
3. Alpha-Centaurans
4. Andorians[^]
5. Androsans
6. Antedeans
7. Anticans
8. Antosians
9. Arbazan
10. Arcadians
11. Arcturians
12. Ardanans
13. Argellians
14. Ariolo
15. Arkenites
16. Atreans
17. Bajorans
18. Bandi
19. Benzites
20. Berellians
21. Berengarians
22. Betazoids
23. Betelgeusians
24. Bolians
25. Brecons
26. Bynars
27. Bzzit Khaht
28. Caitians
29. Centaurans
30. Coridanites
31. Cygnetians
32. Deians
33. Deltans
34. Denobulans
35. Efrosians
36. El Gatarkans
37. Elaysians
38. Grazerites
39. Halii
40. Humans/Terrans[^]
41. K'normians
42. Kalandans
43. Kasheeta
44. Kazarites
45. Klaestronians
46. Medusans
47. Megarites
48. Mynieni
49. Napeans
50. Orions
51. Peliar Zellians
52. Prellarians
53. Ramatians
54. Rhaandarites
55. Rigellians
56. Saurians
57. Selay
58. Shamin Priests
59. Tellarites[^]
60. Tessens
61. Tiburites
62. Trills
63. Ullians
64. Vulcans[^]
65. Xelatians
66. Zakdorn
67. Zaldans
68. Zaranites
[^] Federation co-founder
Note: This list does NOT include Federation members from the Star Trek animated series or from any of the Star Trek line of comics, or fanon. However, it does includes member names from backstage sources not mentioned in dialogue. For an official tally this list is based on, please see Star Trek: The Magazine v2 #6 (October 2001). For fan-created lists, please see the External Links section below.Federation history21st centuryAfter Earth fought the disastrous World War III, scientist Zefram Cochrane built the first warp-capable vessel, the Phoenix. He launched it in the year 2063. The warp-testing of this vessel would garner the attention of a Vulcan science ship operating just outside of the Sol System. Vulcans had not previously considered the Sol System or Earth worthy of their attention before this time. However, the science ship lands on Earth, and makes first-contact with Zefram Cochrane and the inhabitants of Bozeman, Montana, United States. This contact would be the first time that Earth joins the interstellar community, and begins the road towards the foundation of the United Federation of Planets.
22nd-23rd centuriesIn the year 2119, an aging Zefram Cochrane opens the Warp 5 Complex on Earth, in the hope of building a vessel that would be the fastest human starship at the time. Eventually this project would yield the NX-01 Enterprise, Earth's first deep-space exploration vessel.
Although no single individual is responsible for the foundation of the United Federation of Planets, the exploratory vessel Enterprise NX-01 was a major catalyst. Under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer, it helped forge an alliance between the formerly belligerent Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite states, and forged a spirit of unity and cooperation in the Alpha Quadrant, culminating in a formal union in 2161. The Federation was formed largely out of the ashes of the Earth-Romulan War of the late 2150s ending in 2160, when the founding members saw the need for interstellar unity to prevent the horror of further war. Archer was one of the individuals who signed the Federation Charter, after giving a historic speech that was still being studied two centuries later. According to information seen on a viewscreen in a late episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Jonathan Archer later became the Federation ambassador to Andor, a Federation Councillor, and President of the United Federation of Planets from 2184 to 2192.
Around 2223, tensions thickened between the UFP and the Klingon Empire. In 2267 the Organian Peace Treaty was signed which ended major engagements, but the two interstellar powers remained in a state of cold war with occasional skirmishes over the next couple of decades. In 2293 the Khitomer Accords were signed, effectively ending the war and ushering in seven decades of relative peace.
During the era of the original series, Captain James Kirk once noted (in the episode Metamorphosis) that humanity was on "a thousand planets and spreading out"; however, this number apparently encompasses Earth's many off-Earth colonies and the various alien worlds on which humans can be found (just as non-humans have been depicted as residing on Earth) and should not be taken to mean that the Federation itself had a thousand members at that time. Considering that many of the Federation's other members have several interplanetary colonies just as Earth does, the full number of planets which the Federation encompasses may be impossible to determine; it is presumed that colony worlds are directly subsidiary to the planetary governments of their homeworlds (much like individual states/provinces in a nation), but this has never been clearly established.
Early 24th centuryIn 2311, the Tomed Incident occurred in which thousands of Federation civilians and Starfleet personnel died and Romulan outposts disappeared. The unrest was ended by the Treaty of Algeron which re-affirmed the Neutral Zone and prohibited Federation development of cloaking technology.
In 2344, the Romulan Star Empire launched an assault on the Klingon outpost at Narendra III, but the attack was thwarted by the USS Enterprise-C under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett (in an alternate timeline none of this happened and this had unforeseen consequences). Although the Enterprise-C was lost with all hands, the Klingons saw its destruction to save them as a brave and honourable deed, allowing the two powers to take the first steps toward a formal alliance.
Cardassian WarFederation contact with a race called the Cardassians resulted in an extended conflict. One incident in this conflict was the massacre of Federation civilians on Setlik III in 2347. A truce was reached and a Demilitarized Zone was formed in 2370. A number of Federation and Cardassian colonies found themselves situated within the other's territory; an agreement was reached for the transfer of those colonies. However, some Federation colonists were opposed to the agreement and formed the Maquis, a rebel movement who resisted the Cardassians. (see below)
Mid-24th centuryIn 2365, the Federation had first formal contact with the Borg Collective, who threatened the existence of the Federation at the Battle of Wolf 359. Other events of this era include the Klingon Civil War, first contact with the Q, and various time travel incidents.
From 2363 to 2370 the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) served as the Federation's flagship.
From 2373 to 2375, the Federation fought the Dominion War. This was by far the largest conflict the Federation had ever been involved in, allying with the Klingons and Romulans against the combined forces of the Dominion, the Cardassians, and Breen. The Federation alliance was victorious, but with substantial casualties on both sides.
In 2379, a Reman Praetor named Shinzon seized control of the Romulan Star Empire. The coup was defeated by the crew of the USS Enterprise-E, opening up the possibility of improved UFP/Romulan relations after over two centuries of tension. Though, this improved relationship came at a cost, the death of Shinzon may have created a power vacuum.
Possible futureProminent in some timelines is the Temporal Cold War, waged on a number of fronts throughout time including the 28th and 31st centuries.
By the 2550s, the Klingons and possibly the Xindi join the Federation.
By the 29th Century, the Federation explores time as it once did space.
By the 31st Century, indications are that the Federation no longer exists in its current form, possibly having extended to include even more races.
A full-fledged deciding conflict between the Federation and the Borg is possible at some point in the future, due to the nature of the Borg and the importance of the Federation.
Main Star Trek nationsUnited Federation of Planets
Humans
Vulcans
Romulans
Klingons
Tholians
Gorn
Q
Ferengi
Borg
Kazon
Cardassians
Bajorans
Trill
Hirogen
Dominion
Breen
Xindi
KlingonsSubject RacesNot all Klingons are Klingons. Those sentient races found by the Klingons within their space are given rights and duties, but not quite to the same level as ethnic Klingons. While treated as second-class citizens, most are quite loyal to the Empire and simply hope for the day that the Empire will raise them up alongside the Klingons themselves. The Empire does not fully trust the subject races, especially after one revolted early in the post Old-Kings era. As a result, one of the main duties of the ESS is to monitor them for rebellious activities.
A majority of the military forces of the Empire are members of the subject races, but few achieve high rank. The only vessals with Subject Race commanders are those which normally act as planetary guardians over their homeworlds, and even these ships have a sizable ESS contingent on them. Only once was one given Flag Rank, and this was because the dying Klingon general on a planet being overrun by Kzinti forces had no more ethnic Klingon officers available. It should be noted though that when Klingon forces relieved General Kobal's successful resistance, he retained his rank and was treated as a hero.
The Federation (and other nations) regaurd the subject races as near slaves to the Klingon war machine, and often offer assistance. They are often surprised when a given member refuses their offers.
The subject races include:Dunkars: A relatively passive and accepting race who hold a position just shy of their Klingon superiors, some serving as officers.
Slidarians: A race of huge ape/bear beings who excel at ground and hand-to-hand combat. It is notable that the Slidarian homeworld was never conquored by the Klingons, who, after their attempts at passification, co-opted and absorbed them.
Hilidarians: Bipedal (though cable of quadapedal movement) lizards, they were the backbone of the Klingon ground forces prior to the rise of the Slidarians. The resulting rivalry was severe enouge that normally the two races do not serve together.
Cromargs: The dwarf-like survivors of a world devastated by nuclear war, the Cromargs are excellent engineers.
Zoolies: Literally four-eyed, Zoolies are equally capable of operating in bright sunlight and dim starlight. Zoolies make up the backbone of Klingon recon units.
Vudar: A lizard-like race from near the galactic edge, their space is saturated by dangerous ionic radiation. Because of the hazards and difficulties of non-Vudar living in the area, they were given certain leways allowing them to self govern. This would come back to haunt the Klingons as the Vudar would make a bid for independence at the height of the General War.
Bargantines: Looking superficially like shorter Klingons, the Bargantines are adamant that they are related and seek to become more like their 'cousins.' Unfortunately, the Bargantines are utterly inept as a species to be warriors as that they tend to be timid, easily spooked, and rather small. On the other hand, they are superior farmers and Bargantines are the leading agriculturists on most Klingon worlds. Besides, the Bargantine's attempts at organizing military units provides amusement for the Klingons themselves.
Vegarians: Spider-like insectoids, the Vegarians were the first former Old Kings subjects contacted and absorbed by the Klingons. Unfortunately, the Vegarians felt that they should have an equal status with them, and eventually rebelled against the Empire. The Kligons were able to quickly put down the rebellion and bombarded Vegaria back to the stone age. Vegarians were allowed to leave their world for over a century, but were brought back at the height of the General War to act as shock troops.
