Federation First Contact Office
- Oversight for all pre-contact and first contact operations (DS9 Novel: Millennium: Fall of Terok Nor)
- Standard pre-contact procedures
- Upon detection of immediate pre-warp or warp signatures, team selected for duck blind activities (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart"; TNG: "First Contact")
- After civilization achieves warp/subspace technology, pre-contact team opens communications with selected members of planetary scientific community via directed burst transmissions encoding various mathematical theorems (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
- Duck blind observations continue alongside regular interactions with scientific community until mutual plans for introductions are settled (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")