Article 74

The United Federation of Planets shall establish under its authority an interplanetary trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such regions as may be placed thereunder by subsequent individual agreements. These regions are hereinafter referred to as trust regions.

Article 75

The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Federation of Planets as laid down in these Articles of Federation, shall be:

A) To further interplanetary peace and security;

B) To promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust regions, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each region and its intelligent life-forms concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of the trusteeship agreement;

C) To encourage respect for intelligent life-form rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to culture, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the intelligent life-forms of the galaxy; and

D) To ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and commercial matters for all members of the United Federation of Planets and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the adjustment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the provisions of Article 79.

Article 76

1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such regions in the following categories as may be placed thereunder by means of trusteeship agreements:

A) Regions now held under mandate;

B) Regions which may be detached from alien social systems as a result of interplanetary war; and

C) Regions voluntarily placed under the trusteeship system by social systems responsible for their administration;

2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which regions in the foregoing categories will be brought under the trusteeship system and under what terms.

Article 77

The trusteeship system shall not apply to regions which have become members of the United Federation of Planets, relationships among which shall be based on the respect for the principle of sovereign equality.

Article 78

The terms of trusteeship for each region to be placed under the trusteeship system, including any alteration or amendment, shall be agreed upon by the social systems directly concerned, including the mandatory power in the case of regions held under mandate by a member of the United Federation of Planets, and shall be approved as provided for in Articles 82 and 84.

Article 79

1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 76, 78, and 80, placing each region under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements have been considered, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any social systems or any intelligent life-forms or the terms of existing agreements to which members of the United Federation of Planets may respectively be parties;

2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or postponment of the negotiation and conclusion of agreements for placing mandated and other regions under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 76.

Article 80

The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the terms under which the trust region will be administered and designate the authority which will be exercising the administration of the trust region. Such authority, hereinafter called the administering authority, may be one or more social systems of the United Federation of Planets itself.

Article 81

There may be designated, in the trusteeship agreement, a strategic area or areas which may included part or all of the trust region to which the agreement applies, without prejudice to any special agreement or agreements made under Article 43.

Article 82

1. All functions of the United Federation of Planets relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their subsequent alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Federation Council;

2. The basic principles set forth in Article 75 shall apply to the intelligent life-forms of each strategic area;

3. The Federation Council shall, subject to the provisions of the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United Federation of Planets under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, and educational matters in the strategic areas.

Article 83

It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure that the trust region shall play its part in the maintenance of interplanetary peace and security. To this end the administering authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and assistance from the trust region in carrying out the obligations towards the Federation Council undertaken in this regard by the administering authority, as well as for the local defense and the maintenance of law and order within the trust region.

Article 84

1. The functions of the United Federation of Planets with regard to the trusteeship agreements for all regions not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Supreme Assembly;

2. The Trusteeship Council, operating under the authority of the Supreme Assembly, shall assist the Supreme Assembly in carrying out these functions.