Khitomer Accords

Facts

• Treaty between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, replacing the Organian Peace Treaty (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
  • Named for Khitomer, the site of its signing (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

History

• First proposed in the aftermath of the destruction of Praxis, January 2293 (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
• Drafted over following months
  • Federation representatives
    • Ambassador Curzon Dax (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited")
    • Captain Spock (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
  • Klingon representatives
    • Ambassador Kamarag (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
  • Romulan observers
    • Senator Pardek (TNG: "Unification I")
• Signed April 2293 (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
• Accords expanded late 2340s in the aftermath of Romulan attack on Narendra III, solidifying from a state of nonaggression to an explicit diplomatic alliance (TNG: "Samaritan Snare", "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Sarek"; DS9: "The Way of the Warrior"; Star Trek: Insurrection)
  • Federation representatives
    • Ambassador Sarek (TNG: "Sarek")
  • Klingon representatives
  • Officially known as the Treaty of Alliance, but commonly referred to as the Second Khitomer Accords (TNG: "Redemption"; Star Trek: Insurrection)
• Klingon Empire withdrew from treaty December 18, 2372 (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
• Accords re-established July 2373 upon the start of the Dominion War (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")

Contents

First Accords

• Resolution territorial claims and conflicts between the two powers
  • Klingon Empire relinquished claims to Archanis Sector (DS9: "Broken Link")

Second Accords

• Establishes a mutual defense pact between the two powers (TNG: "Redemption")
  • Applies only to matters of external threat (TNG: "Redemption")
• Allows for unrestricted travel by foreign nationals of one nation in the space of the other (TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
  • Foreign vessels are subject to health and safety inspections by each nation's military as necessary (TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
• If nationals of one nation request asylum from the other, they must be returned to their originating nation on request of that nation's government (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
• Bans the usage of subspace weapons due to potential damage to subspace (Star Trek: Insurrection)