Authorization code
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The command authorization code (or simply authorization code) is an alphanumeric sequence used by militaries to allow access to certain command protocols and restricted information. It is also known as a voice authorization code, command code, or access code.
Some of the many uses of authorization codes including: activating and cancelling auto destruct sequences, transferring of command of a starship, accessing secured locations, and ejecting a warp core.
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[edit] Starfleet
In Starfleet, the style of code varies from decade to decade. In 2365, the code was a long sequence of numbers, letters from the human Greek and English alphabet pronounced phonetically and colors. By the following year, the code standardized to a form used from that point on. Typically, this would involve the user's name, Greek letters, and numbers. Codes are changed on a regular basis, to prevent sabotage and security breaches.
Doctor Kila Marr isolated the access code of the science station on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-D thereby making it impossible to turn off the graviton pulse that was destroying the Crystalline entity. (TNG: "Silicon Avatar")
[edit] Examples aboard USS Enterprise-D and -E
- 2365: "Omicron-Omicron-Alpha-Yellow-Daystar-2-7" (TNG: "Unnatural Selection")
- 2367: "1-7-3-4-6-7-3-2-1-4-7-6-Charlie-3-2-7-8-9-7-7-7-6-4-3-Tango-7-3-2-Victor-7-3-1-1-7-8-8-8-7-3-2-4-7-6-7-8-9-7-6-4-3-7-6-Lock" (TNG: "Brothers")
- 2367: "Kappa-Alpha-4-6-0-1-7-0-4" (TNG: "Data's Day")
- 2367: "La Forge Theta-2-9-9-7" (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")
- 2368: "Riker-Omega-3" (TNG: "Power Play")
- 2369: "Picard-Delta-5" (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I")
- 2369: "Jellico-Alpha-3-1" (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part II")
- 2369: "Picard-Epsilon-7-9-3" (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle")
- 2369: "Moriarty-Alpha-2-4-1-5-9" (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle")
- 2369: "Riker-Alpha-6-0" (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
- 2370: "Troi-Omega-Omega-3-1" (TNG: "Thine Own Self")
- 2373: "Picard-4-7-Alpha-Tango" (Star Trek: First Contact)
- 2373: "Crusher-2-2-Beta-Charlie" (Star Trek: First Contact)
- 2373: "Worf-3-7-Gamma-Echo" (Star Trek: First Contact)
- 2379: "Picard, authorization Alpha-Alpha-3-0-5" (Star Trek Nemesis)
[edit] Examples aboard Deep Space 9 and USS Defiant
- Aboard Deep Space 9 and USS Defiant, authorization codes optionally included an action word related to the request being made.
- 2370: "Bashir-1-Alpha" (DS9: "The Wire")
- 2371: "Dukat-5-1-1-6-Green" (DS9: "Civil Defense")
- 2371: "Kira-Delta-5-4-7-Alpha" (DS9: "Defiant")
- 2371: "Sisko-Alpha-1-Alpha" (DS9: "The Adversary")
- 2371: "Kira-Beta-2-Beta" (DS9: "The Adversary")
- 2371: "Sisko-1-5-Destruct" (DS9: "The Adversary")
- 2371: "Sisko-Omega-1-7-Abort" (DS9: "The Adversary")
- 2372: "Eddington-0-6-5-Alpha-Enable" (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")
- 2373: "Kira-1-5-7-Alpha" (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")
- 2373: "Sisko-A-4-7-1" (DS9: "Blaze of Glory")
[edit] Examples aboard USS Voyager
- Aboard the USS Voyager, authorization codes optionally included colors and clearance levels.
- 2371: "Janeway-8-4-1-Alpha-6-5" (VOY: "Cathexis")
- 2372: "Janeway-Pi-1-1-0" (VOY: "Dreadnought", "Deadlock")
- 2372: "Engineering-Authorization-Omega-4-7" (VOY: "Investigations")
- 2373: "Janeway-Lambda-3" (VOY: "Coda")
- 2374: "Tuvok-Theta-9" (VOY: "Waking Moments")
- 2374: "Janeway-1-1-5-3-Red, Clearance level: 10" (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
- 2374: "Torres-Omega 5-9-3" (VOY: "Day of Honor")
- 2375: "Seven of Nine-Omega-Pi-9-3" (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
- 2276/2377: "Tuvok-Pi-Alpha" (VOY: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Repression", "Lineage")
- 2377: "Janeway-Omega-3" (VOY: "Workforce")
- 2378: "Tuvok-Sigma-4" (VOY: "Renaissance Man")
- 2378: "ECH-Omega-4-2" (VOY: "Renaissance Man")
[edit] Other examples
- In the Communications Research Center in 2376: "Barclay-Alpha-1-7-Gamma" (VOY: "Pathfinder")
[edit] Cardassian
Cardassian authorization codes are somewhat customizable in that high-ranking officers can add additional security checks to restrict use of their security clearances.
S.G. Dukat added several such subroutines to his counter-insurgency program aboard Terok Nor; when Elim Garak attempted to imitate Dukat to shut down the program, it constantly challenged Garak to prove his identity. When Dukat later decided to shut down the program, however, he discovered that one of his superiors had altered the program to prevent Dukat from escaping in the event of a Bajoran revolt. (DS9: "Civil Defense")
[edit] Ferengi
In order to access communications aboard D'Kora-class, the DaiMon's authorization is required for all transmissions. The access code of DaiMon Tog, the commander of the Krayton, was (in part) "Keh-ee Yoor-ee Dah-teh-ee..." (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
[edit] Authorization code bypass
In 2372 Neelix was able to gain access to Tom Paris's computer with a engineering authorization code (Engineering-Authorization-Omega-4-7) without the proper voiceprint of Tom. (VOY: "Investigations")
