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Starfleet Regulations (Official Procedural Pages)

Official Starfleet procedural regulations presented as consultable pages used as evidence in Picard's argument over Data's status. The dossier appears in the narrative as physically printed sheets (kept in a slim folder or system printout) and as on-screen, digitally paginated pages on Picard's ready-room console; both presentations convey the same canonical body of Starfleet policy (protocol headers, section numbers, classification stamps, and dense legal prose) that officers consult, cite aloud, and finger through during proceedings.

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Purpose

To provide authoritative procedural rules and codified regulations that officers consult to determine legal, administrative, and personnel actions within Starfleet.

Significance

These documents convert a moral dispute into a procedural contest: ordering the regulations pulled signals a shift from private pleading to formal legal battle over Data's personhood, supplying the crew with the institutional language and precedents needed to contest reassignment and argue for rights.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S2E9 · The Measure of a Man

Hearing Convened — Duty Against Friendship

Starfleet regulations are verbally invoked by Picard and implied by Phillipa when discussing hearing logistics; they provide the procedural framework that allows Picard to demand a hearing and Phillipa to improvise counsel from serving officers.

Before: Existing institutional texts presumed to cover hearings and absences of staff.

After: Used to authorize an improvised hearing and to delineate roles (defense, prosecution) for the ad hoc tribunal.

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