Crime and punishment Crime and punishment are the " cause and effect " actions involved in the breaking of a law . The Maquis members were considered outlaws by the government s of the Federation and Cardassia . ( ) Crimes and their punishments . Angosians . The Angosian s once created genetically - enhanced soldiers to fight in the Tarsian War for them . After the war , the soldiers were kept on the penal colony Lunar V , a moon , to protect them from criminal behavior , because the Angosians rejected criminal behavior and any form of crime . ( ) Argrathi . According to the Argrathi Authority , the crime of espionage requires a minimum of fifteen cycle s of correction . In 2372 , Miles O ' Brien was given twenty for being curious , and subsequently asking too many questions about Argrathi technology . The Argrathi form of " correction " involves assigning memories of incarceration modeled to fit each offender ' s personality . These memories , in fact , result from interactive programs that create artificial psychic realities from planted memories of things that never actually happened . The Argrathi use this form of punishment as they find it more efficient and more effective than maintaining an extensive prison system . ( ) Bajoran . During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor , killing a Cardassian was not considered much of a crime . Odo referred to this after he told Commander Benjamin Sisko about the past activities of the Bajoran Ibudan during this time . Although Ibudan went to prison , he was released by the Bajoran Provisional Government . ( ) According to Odo , unauthorized access to crew quarters was a crime . ( ) All Cardassians who worked on the Gallitep labor camp were considered war criminals . ( ) In Bajoran space , the punishment for assault with intent to kill is a long prison term . Most of the conspirators of the Lissepian Mother ' s Day Heist were all charged with that crime after trying to obtain the proceeds of the heist for themselves , on Deep Space 9 . ( ) Benkaran . The Benkaran s live within the territory controlled by the Nygean s , who view them as predisposed to criminal behavior . Although they only comprise ten percent of the overall population , Benkarans make up eighty percent of the population of Nygean jails . Benkarans are also ten times more likely to be executed for a crime . ( ) Cardassians . Under Cardassian law , guilt was confirmed prior to court proceedings – the trials themselves served only as a way to demonstrate the wrongdoing of the defendants and to illustrate the consequences of their alleged criminal behavior . Defendants were provided with legal counsel merely to help them " concede " the " wisdom " of the state ' s judicial process , as well as help them to admit guilt and express " proper " remorse . Cardassian judicial penalties were usually severe : in at least some cases , the courts had already scheduled the accused ' s execution " before " the trial began . ( ) The Cardassian s used cranial implant s as a sort of help for members of the Obsidian Order . These implants could malfunction and serve as a sort of punishment device . In 2370 the exiled Elim Garak faced the pain and function of this piece of biotechnology . ( ) The Cardassians also punished members of their species with exile . Elim Garak was exiled and lived on Deep Space 9 . He himself called this a torture . ( ) Deneb V . On Deneb V , fraud is punishable by the guilty party ' s choice of death penalties , including but not limited to death by electrocution , death by gas , death by phaser and death by hanging . Harry Mudd , convicted of fraud for illegally reselling patents , was fleeing this punishment when he happened upon a planet later called Mudd . ( ) Dominion . The Dominion does not typically take prisoners , keeping only those that may later serve a purpose to them . ( ) If prisoners are held , they may be released following the end of hostilities between the Dominion and its enemies . Several Cardassian prisoners , a number of whom were survivors of the Battle of the Omarion Nebula , were released from Internment Camp 371 following Cardassia ' s alliance with the Dominion . ( ) During battle , the Dominion prefers to kill the survivors of destroyed or disabled starship s , unless they wish to use them to serve a greater purpose . In 2373 , the Jem ' Hadar deliberately left survivors on the disabled IKS " B ' Moth " because they wanted someone to try to rescue them , in an attempt to secure more kills . ( ) In 2375 , following the Second Battle of Chin ' toka , the Female Changeling wished to allow the otherwise vulnerable escape pod ' s " frightened , demoralized troops " to return to the Federation " to spread fear throughout the Federation with tales of what happened " in their overwhelming defeat . ( ) Dramian . The Dramen s accused Doctor McCoy of causing the plague that eradicated the population of Dramia II before he was found innocent thanks to the help of the lone survivor Kol - Tai . ( ) Edo . The Edo have an unusual punishment system in which a crime might not be punished depending on where and when it was committed . The only punishment used in this system is death by lethal injection ( ) . Ennis / Nol - Ennis . Because of unresolvable conflicts between the Ennis and the Nol - Ennis they were banished onto a moon in the Gamma Quadrant which was used as a penal colony . It was orbit ed by a network of artificial satellite s and its atmosphere was filled with artificial microbe s which " cured " the death , following an eternal war between both factions . ( ) Founders . The Founder s believed that a Changeling harming another is a crime . Odo ' s shapeshifting abilities were taken away and he was given Human form as his punishment for killing one of his own kind . ( ) Human . Without the intervention and influence of Q , Isaac Newton would have died forgotten in a Liverpool debtors ' prison as a suspect in several prostitute murder s . ( ) Miles O ' Brien commented to Alixus that her son Vinod was tied up because he " just fired a couple of arrows " at O ' Brien and that in " his " community , that ' s a crime . ( ) Kevin Uxbridge , a Douwd in Human disguise , destroyed the Husnock species with a mere thought in fury of blind rage after the Husnock attacked Delta Rana IV and killed his wife Rishon . Captain Jean - Luc Picard stated that the Federation has " no law to fit your crime , " and let Kevin return to Rana IV . ( ) In 2153 it was a crime for Humans to teach Skagaran s . But Bethany chose to teach them and was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Bennings ( ) During a holodeck simulation of the town of Deadwood in Earth ' s Ancient West , Worf , upon learning that he would play a sheriff and that his son Alexander Rozhenko would play his deputy , noted approvingly , " so we are in law enforcement . " The simulation involved Worf having to apprehend notorious outlaw Eli Hollander and his gang . ( ) J ' naii . The J ' naii considered an individual who identified as male or female was committing the crime of perversion . Soren was found guilty of this crime and subjected to psychotectic therapy to obliterate the gender identity . ( ) Klaestron . Treason and murder are punishable by death for the Klaestron s . ( ) Klingon . Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy were arrested for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon and sent to life imprisonment at Rura Penthe . This was considered a lesser punishment by a Klingon judge ; but Commander Chekov referred to it as " the aliens ' graveyard " . ( ) Kortar , a figure in Klingon mythology , was punished for destroying the god s who created him . As punishment , he was condemned to ferry the souls of the dishonored to Gre ' thor on the Barge of the Dead . ( ) Mari . The Mari believed any crime was caused by the person who originally had the violent thought and punished the person by removing the offending engram s from their mind . ( ) Q . The Q Continuum has provided several unique forms of punishment . For wishing to commit suicide , Q was imprisoned in a rogue comet for eternity . ( ) The parents of Amanda Rogers were punished for their " incomprehensible " decision to remain on Earth during the 2340s . The Q ultimately executed them with an " unusually compact , yet extremely powerful " tornado that " spontaneously " appeared directly over their home , destroyed it , and then disappeared . ( ) In 2366 , Q was punished by the Continuum because he had " spread too much chaos through the universe " . His punishment was having his powers stripped and being assigned the form of a mortal being . Although he had toyed with the idea of becoming a Markoffian sea lizard , or a Belzoidian flea , he ultimately requested to become Human . ( ) Collaborating with the enemy is a crime punishable by death in the Continuum , a crime that Captain Kathryn Janeway and Q almost paid the price for . ( ) Rakhari . The Rakhari considered all crimes as serious but had no trial s on their homeworld . Enemies of the government were punished by killing their family members . ( ) Ramuran . The Ramuran s considered leaving their own planet a crime , so they used a neurolytic emitter on these refugees to erase their memories of all encounters and experiences of the outside world before reintegrating them into Ramuran society . ( ) Romulan . The Romulan s firmly believe in the use of labor camps . In 2362 , Quark and his accomplice Fallit Kot were indicted for hijacking a shipment of Romulan ale . Kot received 8 years in a labor camp for the hijacking , whereas Quark , who claimed he had nothing to do with the hijacking itself , and was just a simple " middleman , " was acquitted . However , it was not that simple ; as trafficking in stolen goods was enough to receive imprisonment in a Romulan camp , it was determined that Quark was acquitted because he sold out Kot . ( ) Takret . A captain of the Takret Militia threatened Captain Jonathan Archer to punish him for conspiracy when arriving at his homeworld after he found the vessel of three deserteurs aboard . ( ) Talaxian . Under Talaxian law , avoiding or refusing service in the Talaxian Defense Forces during a time of war was a death penalty offense . Neelix managed to avoid this punishment while hiding from the Defense Forces during the Talaxian - Haakonian War . ( ) Voth . The Voth Ministry of Elders view heresy as a crime . It charged Professor Forra Gegen with heresy for teaching Distant Origin Theory , a scientific theory that challenged Voth religious doctrine . Despite the evidence standing before them , Professor Gegen was still found guilty and sentenced to prison along with the " Voyager " crew , forcing him to retract his theory so they could go . ( ) Vulcan . In the 22nd century , a mind meld was considered a crime , in which Soval appeared before the Vulcan High Command to answer for his mind meld . Soval was stripped his position as an ambassador . ( ) Also in the 22nd century , treason was a crime which was punishable by execution . Administrator V ' Las told this to Commander T ' Pol . ( )