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Starfleet's safety protocols
In the [[Science Fiction|fictional]] [[Star Trek]] [[universe]], the '''safety protocols''' are a set of safeguards preprogrammed into certain [[Starfleet]] systems to prevent accidents or misuse of said systems.

In the shows, it has been established that safety protocols can be disengaged by officers, given a certain level of clearence and/or a minimum number of access codes inserted.  

(contracted; show full)e main computer is able to recognize voice patterns, this programming could be recognized ship-wide, so that any replicator on board will refuse replicating the hazardous substance for that specific person (the sake of example notwithstanding, it must be pointed out that it has been established the availability of intensive prenatal genetic treatment &mdash; notably during Star Trek: Voyager, for instance when B'Elanna corrects her baby's spinal cord before birth &mdash; so it's feas
aible that no one in the Star Trek universe has allergies, except for species-specific ones).

===Main Computer===

Safety protocols in the main computer (although usually not referred to as such) are in place to ensure the safety of a ship and crew by limiting access to some command functions to the senior staff or maybe just the ship's captain.  Many examples have been given to that regard, such as the concurrence of a minimum number of senior officers to activate the self-destruction countdown ([[Star Trek: First Contact]]); access to the "Omega Directive" and its protocols is limited to a "level 10 clearence", which is exclusive to Starfleet captains ([[Star Trek:Voyager|Voyager]]'s episode 4x21: [[List of Star Trek Voyager episodes|The Omega Directive]]); the transference of any ship's command codes, which is necessary to change the commanding officer &ndash; the captain &ndash; of a ship is only possible by inputting successively the command codes of both the outgoing captain (first) and the incoming captain ([[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] episode 6x10: [[List of Star Trek TNG episodes|Chain of Command, Part I]]).

In the shows, it was also revealed that some non-[[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] species, such as the [[Klingon]]s and the [[Romulan]]s, perceive the safety protocols as "yet another sign of Starfleet's weakness".

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