Conspiracy The crime of conspiracy was the act of collaborating with other persons to advance another criminal activity or other plot concealed from the general public . The captain of the Takret Militia threatened Captain Jonathan Archer that he ' d be charged with criminal conspiracy when the Takret brought to their homeworld . ( ) In 2267 , paranoid Starfleet officer Benjamin Finney , shortly after unsuccessfully trying to frame James T . Kirk , accused both Kirk and Starfleet in general of having conspired against him to prevent him being given command of the . ( ) Later that year , Trelane accused James T . Kirk of conspiracy after Kirk began to resist Trelane ' s im prison ment of him . ( ) In 2286 , the crew of the , led by Kirk , was charged with conspiracy after they retrieved Captain Spock from the Genesis Planet . The conspiracy , as charged , had led to acts of assault , sabotage , theft , and destruction of Federation property . All of the charges except for one were summarily dismissed by the President of the Federation . ( ) In 2364 , a species of parasitic being s infiltrated Starfleet Command . Admiral Gregory Quinn was the first to suspect a conspiracy was going on at the highest levels of Starfleet . The alien plot was foiled by the efforts of the crew of the and Admiral Norah Satie , among others . ( ) In 2368 , Cadet Nicholas Locarno convinced fellow Nova Squadron members Sito Jaxa , Jean Hajar , and Wesley Crusher to participate in a ( ultimately unsuccessful ) cover - up of their attempt at the Kolvoord Starburst ( which had resulted in the death of fellow member Joshua Albert ) by pretending they had been executing a Yeager loop instead . ( ) In 2369 , the senior staff of Deep Space 9 talked about a way to arrest the Bajoran Kohn - Ma terrorist Tahna Los . Doctor Julian Bashir proposed that they could charge him with conspiracy , and Constable Odo mentioned that conspiracy was a crime . ( ) The same year , Commander Benjamin Sisko was able to prevent an assassination attempt on Vedek Bareil Antos . When he talked with Major Kira Nerys after this incident and the assassin Neela was interrogated , both Sisko and Kira believed they couldn ' t prove any connection to Vedek Winn Adami , and Neela was the only one who was accused of conspiracy . ( ) When Seska stole mushroom s from Neelix ' s galley to prepare mushroom soup for Chakotay , the first officer learned about this criminal act while enjoying the soup . He thanked Seska for including him in this criminal conspiracy and reported it . ( ) In 2374 , Captain Benjamin Sisko successfully conspired with Elim Garak to bring the Romulan Star Empire into the Dominion War . ( ) In 2377 , Kadan conspired with the Quarren Ministry of Health and officials from Quarren Criminal Investigations to abduct aliens to relieve a massive labor shortage . This also included altering their memories so the victims would not realize their situation , and would actually be happy to be working on Quarra . personnel were victims of this conspiracy , as were numerous others . After being discovered , the Quarren ambassador promised that all the victims would be freed . ( ) " In an alternate 2390 , Captain Geordi La Forge told the renegade Chakotay that charges of conspiracy to violate the Temporal Prime Directive would be dropped if he , Harry Kim , and Tessa Omond surrender ed themselves and a Borg temporal transmitter in their possession . Tessa pointed out that such an offer had little meaning to them , as , if their plan to prevent the USS " Voyager " from crashing in the Takara sector was successful , the timeline would be changed and the charges would not exist . " ( ) Khitomer . The Khitomer conspiracy was a plot in 2293 to sabotage peace talks between the Federation and the Klingon Empire by assassinating Chancellor Gorkon as well as the Federation President , and framing the opposite side for the murder s . Alternate reality . From 2258 of the alternate reality , Section 31 , led by Admiral , conspired to militarize Starfleet for war against the Klingon Empire . Marcus recruited the war criminal , under the name of John Harrison , to design ship s and weapon s . Khan planned to smuggle out his fellow Augment s in a series of advanced long - range torpedo es . However , he fled by the following year , when his plan was exposed , leading him to commit vengeful attacks on the Kelvin Memorial Archive and Starfleet Headquarters . Marcus attempted to cover up the conspiracy by ordering to execute " Harrison " with the photon torpedo es he had attempted to smuggle his crew in . However , Kirk learned the truth when he chose to arrest Khan instead of bomb ing him from orbit . Marcus came in the , and , when it became clear Kirk wanted to bring Khan to trial and expose the conspiracy , he attempted to destroy the , but was prevented from doing so . ( )