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Federation Judicial Code

An excerpt from the Federation Judicial Code.

The Federation Judicial Code, also known as the Federation Legal Code, was a set of guidelines and regulations related to Federation law.

It read, in part:

FEDERATION JUDICIAL CODE 21.0061
FEDERATION LEGAL CODE, ORDER 104
RE: COMMAND POSTING PRECEDENTS
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• ORDER 104, SECTION B: Starfleet order that deals with chain of command. Commodore Matt Decker quoted regulation 104-B to Spock when taking command of the Enterprise in 2267.
• ORDER 104, SECTION C: Starfleet regulation states that the Chief Medical Officer may relieve a commander of duty if he or she is mentally or physically hurt. Precedent: C. Stocker, a Starfleet officer who assumed command of Starbase 10 in 2267. Stocker was transported to the post aboard the starship Enterprise. While en route, several Enterprise personnel became ill with a radiation induced hyperaccelerated aging disease. Fearing the loss of these officers, Stocker assumed command of the Enterprise.

Order 104 in the Federation Judicial Code refers to precedents in command postings, with Section B describing an event from the USS Enterprise; and Section C described the regulation in which a chief medical officer could relieve a commanding officer if they deemed the officer to be unfit for duty. (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy"; cf. TOS: "The Doomsday Machine", "The Deadly Years")

In 2376, Captain Kathryn Janeway reviewed the legal precedents in Federation law for granting command positions to holograms, in her consideration of upgrading The Doctor to be an ECH. At that time, however, there weren't any precedents on the matter for her to regard. (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" okudagram)

Captain Kathryn Janeway reviewed the Judicial Code again when some of her crewmembers were held captive aboard a Borg cube in 2376. (VOY: "Collective")

The relationship between the Federation Judicial Code and the Federation Uniform Code of Justice is unclear. The two may be synonymous.
The excerpt for Section B (and the first sentence of Secton C) of the Judicial Code that appeared in "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" was lifted directly (or was slightly modified in the case of the first sentence of Section C from the "Starfleet General Orders and Regulations" entry from the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 468), while the remainder of Section C was lifted directly from the "Stocker" entry from the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 278).

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