Khitomer Accords
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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
- Federation representatives
- 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)
- Federation representatives
- 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)
- Established in paragraph 27 (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
- Bans the usage of subspace weapons due to potential damage to subspace (Star Trek: Insurrection)