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For someStar Trekcharacters , running off to Starfleet is a dream that ’s deserving pursuing . The Zion ofStar Trek ’s United Federation of Planets is n’t uncommitted to non - member worlds , sogrowing up outside the Federation increase one ’s chances of living a harder life history , and wanting to run away to Starfleet . Starfleet receive cadet openly , but occupant of non - Federation world must be shop at by a command - level Starfleet officer to enroll in Starfleet Academy , especially if their people are current or former opponent to the Federation , like Hunter , Romulans , or Ferengi .
IneveryStar Trekshow , the chance exists for Starfleet officeholder to make a difference , regardless of their inception . Characters might run away to Starfleet when they long to connect with others or explore beyond their dwelling house , but do n’t have the opportunities where they ’re at . Starfleet value mean these citizenry can be themselves without interrogation , and enjoy the benefit of a post - scarcity society that embraces difference as a rule . For theseStar Trekcharacters , guide away to Starfleet intend they can live a near life with more opportunities , where they do n’t have to be stifled by ill - meet circumstances .
800 years before Star Trek : Starfleet Academy , Deep Space Nine sent one of its best and bright to San Francisco to become a account - realize plebe .
9Lt. Commander Andy Billups (Paul Scheer)
“I love Starfleet, okay, and I don’t want to live in a castle with pet dragons.”
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 7 , " Where Pleasant Fountains Lie " disclose that Lt . Commander Andarithio " Andy " Billups , the USS Cerritos ' Chief Engineer , is the prince ofStar Trek ’s Renaissance Faire major planet , Hysperia , and will be its king upon becoming sexually active . Life on Hysperia is frustrating , because Billups is a great engineer who hates that Hysperian civilisation is covered in a veneer of pretender - Medieval aesthetics , despite being post - warp , and Billups would rather call thing what they are . Between preferring practical applications of engineering , and escaping the pressure of rule a satellite , it ’s no wonderment Billups unite Starfleet .
8Elnor (Evan Evagora)
“I have bound myself to Picard as qalankhkai.”
InStar Trek : Picard , Elnor chooses to attend Starfleet Academy after being inspired by Admiral Jean - Luc Picard and Commander Raffi Musiker . As a Romulan refugee , Elnor was raised by the Qowat Milat , Romulan warrior nuns devoted to lost causes and a philosophy of out-and-out candidness . As a world , Elnor ca n’t formally bring together the all - female Qowat Milat , but Elnor still binds himself to Picard ’s search for Soji Asha ( Isa Briones ) as qalankhkai : the champion of a lost cause . After being relinquish from Picard ’s drive , Elnor debate Starfleet his practiced pick , andElnor becomes the first full - blooded Romulan in Starfleet .
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7Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong)
“And this crew? I believe we can do anything. Even defeat the Gorn. "
After miss as the solitary survivor of a Gorn onrush on her folk ’s settlement ship , the SS Puget Sound , La’an Noonien - Singh ( Christina Chong ) was rescue by Starfleet officers , one of whom was Commander Una Chin - Riley , also known as Number One ( Rebecca Romijn ) . The destruction of the colony meant that La’an want a station to go , andthe Starfleet officers who rescue La’an provided an opportunity , as well as a saucy outset . La’an Noonien - Singh was urge to go into Starfleet security as a response to living through the Gorn attack , with hope that La’an could protect others like herself .
La’an Noonien - Singh is descended from Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) , but the Federation proscription on transmitted engineering does n’t use to La’an , since Lt . Noonien - Singh is so far remove from Khan that she has no Augment advantages .
6Lt. D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells)
“I wasn’t just a regular Orion teenager. I was trained to be a Syndicate assassin.”
Lt . D’Vana Tendi runs off to Starfleet to escape the life promise to her as"Mistress of the Winter Constellations " , the eldest daughter of the fifth - largest kinfolk in thecriminal Orion Syndicate . As her family ’s Prime , D’Vana was take since childhood to be a Syndicate assassin , but Tendi wanted a dissimilar living . InLower Decksseason 4 , episode 4 , " Something Borrowed , Something Green " , Tendi finds the downed Federation ship whereshe imagined being a Starfleet scientific discipline policeman . Tendi makes her Starfleet dream come in lawful by running off to Starfleet Academy , leaving the pirating to her sis , D’Erika .
5Captain Saru (Doug Jones)
“I saw hope in the stars. It was stronger than fear, and I went towards it.”
InStar Trek : Short Treksseason 1 , episode 3 , " The Brightest Star " , Saru head for the hills living from the pre - warp Kelpien village on Kaminar to join Starfleet . Saru believes there ’s more than subsistence last and waiting to be harvested by the Ba’ul , and wants to get out . Against his family ’s wishes , Saru builds a communication gadget from spare part taken from a transmitter build by the ( purportedly ) predatory Ba’ul . Saru manage to contact alien life , which comes in the form of Starfleet ’s Captain Philippa Georgiou , who give Saru the fortune to leave Kaminar , even though it mean never seeing his family again .
4Lt. Nog (Aron Eisenberg)
“I want to do something with my life… something worthwhile.”
exist on Deep Space Nine express Nog that there were other choice to the typical Ferengi way of life-time — alternatives like Starfleet . Nog was terrify that he ’d wind up like his father , Rom , stuck in a all in - close job and unable to use his reliable endowment to survive a more satisfying sprightliness . When the time come for Nog to choose an apprenticeship , Nog decide Starfleet would give him the chance that Rom never had . Rather than see his potential difference wasted , Nog escaped the oppressive system of Ferengi capitalist refinement , and became a genuine success fib as the first Ferengi in Starfleet .
3Star Trek: Prodigy’s USS Protostar Crew
“We all deserve to belong somewhere.”
TheUSS Protostar gang inStar Trek : Prodigyis made up of vernal mass who run away to Starfleet on the promise of trivial more than a wild dream . Dal R’El knew that finding the USS Protostar presented the chance to escape an awful life on the Tars Lamora mining colony . Dal , Gywndala and the other Unwanted who escaped with Dal to becomethe USS Protostar crew did n’t even have sex about Starfleet or the Federation when they see their Federation spaceship , and the explanations give by Hologram Janeway seemed too good to be true , but they remain in seeking out Starfleet .
Each of theStar Trek : Prodigycharacters has reasons for wanting to be undecomposed than the organization that oppress them , and find out how to rise above their own past times on their journey to Federation space . The USS Protostar gang embody Starfleet before they even get to the Academy , and still have to oppose to be seen and heard . as luck would have it , Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) advocates for them all , and lease them aboard the USS Voyager - A for its raw mission inStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 .
2Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn)
“Maybe I could be a part of something bigger than myself.”
Commander Una Chin - Riley first encountered Starfleet as a tyke , when Starfleet officers came to the Federation settlement in the Vaultera Nebula , where Una originate up . The Federation ban on transmitted engineering divided Una ’s community , subjugate Una ’s family to detest because they still practiced the Illyrian custom of augmentation . Starfleet represented a good life history , soUna Chin - Riley hid her Illyrian heritage and fall in Starfleet anyway . Upon being discovered as Illyrian , Commander Chin - Riley pled with Starfleet for asylum , which was granted during Number One ’s trial inStar Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 2 , episode 2 , " advertising Astra Per Aspera " .
Una Chin - Riley ’s sum - wrench stock story finally head to Number One becoming the face of Starfleet enlisting posters well into the twenty-fourth 100 , as explained inStar Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 2 , episode 7 , " Those Old Scientists " .
1Lt. Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby)
“Starfleet took that frightened, angry young girl and tempered her.”
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s Lieutenant Tasha Yar ( Denise Crosby ) joins Starfleet to get off the harsh conditions on Turkana IV , a failed Earth colony where lawlessness runs rampant . The colony was run over with law-breaking , and its citizens were kept in a drug - induced daze while scavenge for food . woman like Tasha and her sis , Ishara ( Beth Toussaint ) , lived in fear of sexual assault . At age 15 , Tasha Yar jumped at the opportunity to get off from Turkana IV , and finally enrolled at Starfleet Academy .
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 4 , sequence 6 , " Legacy " , the USS Enterprise arrives at Turkana IV , and run into Yar ’s sis , Ishara , who is still bitter about Tasha bequeath for Starfleet .
Tasha Yar ’s story is a reminder thatthe utopian society created by the United Federation of Planets does n’t exist everywhere in theStar Trekuniverse , which is n’t often touched on inStar Trek : The Next Generation . Starfleet was a elbow room out that Tasha thirstily accept , and becoming a security officer allow Yar to be the type of mortal that Tasha needed when she was grow up .
For these characters , Starfleet represents the Bob Hope that can be found in a succeeding Charles Frederick Worth fighting for . Starfleet is a promise , in many path , that life can be better than the unfortunate hands that they ’ve been dealt . These characters who black market out to Starfleet are a lot like us , watchingStar Trekshows and look for hope . We may not be able to room a starship to escape a brand - new spirit , but we can come together to essay to keep the flavour of cooperation and exploration awake here and now , creating theStar Trekworld these fibre are run towards .
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