Handcuffs Handcuffs , manacles , or shackles – known colloquially as irons or cuffs – were a type of restraint that limited an individual ' s wrist movement . Occasionally , they were additionally used to secure the person ' s ankle s . " In 1944 of an alternate timeline , Jonathan Archer wore handcuffs while being transferred by Nazi s through a wooded area in Nazi - occupied New York , in a truck . Later , handcuffs were used to imprison Charles Tucker III and Travis Mayweather , shortly after they were captured by the Nazis . " ( ) After imprisonment in 2144 and following several escape attempts , Doctor Arik Soong was made to wear magnetized restraints to restrict his movement . ( ) In 2151 , a team of Ferengi successfully subdued the crew of and boarded the ship with the intent of stealing anything of value . After they were unable to locate a vault aboard the craft , they revived Captain Jonathan Archer to question him , but not before handcuffing him to a hand hold in one of " Enterprise " s launch bay s , to prevent his escape . Thereafter , one of the Ferengi , Krem , uncuffed Archer so he could carry goods from " Enterprise " onto the Ferengi ship but later shackled him to another hand hold in a corridor aboard " Enterprise " in order to bring him some food and a drink from the vessel ' s mess hall . While Krem was gone , Commander Tucker covertly tried to release Archer ' s bonds with a small lock pick but doing so proved too difficult and Krem soon returned . He again took the shackles off Archer , so he could continue the manual labor . When Archer refused to do any more work , Krem once again handcuffed him to a hand - hold . Sub - Commander T ' Pol thereafter stole the key to the shackles from Krem and eventually freed Archer , him ordering her to " open these things . " Except for Krem , all the Ferengi were subsequently shackled aboard their own ship as it departed from " Enterprise " . ( ) After Menos was finally captured , he was shackled , in an outpost on a moon of Pernaia Prime , by his captors : Captain Archer , Sub - Commander T ' Pol , and Ensign Travis Mayweather . When Menos started a fire inside the outpost , T ' Pol took off his manacles . She was about to refasten them round his wrists when he managed to escape . ( ) Enolian handcuffs had built - in pain receptor s which could be activated by remote control . In 2152 , Captain Archer was captured by the Enolians and placed in handcuffs of this kind . ( ) In 2153 , Archer admitted to Phlox that he himself hadn ' t been " looking forward to throwing [ Phlox ] in irons , " after he and the physician were in dispute over the medical care of Hudak . ( ) " In 2155 of the mirror universe , wore metallic - looking handcuffs while being interrogated by in the briefing room onboard the . " ( ) In 2256 , prisoners Psycho , , , and Michael Burnham wore handcuffs between their ankles and wrists while aboard prison shuttle SPT 21 . When their pilot was accidentally killed , the four prisoners struggled to remove their shackles , and by the time they were led off the shuttle into the shuttlebay of the by that ship ' s crew , the prisoners were no longer wearing their handcuffs . ( ) " In 2259 of the alternate reality , was handcuffed after surrendering to Captain and party on Qo ' noS and was placed in the ' s brig . Afterwards , he was moved to sickbay still handcuffed . " ( ) In 2268 , Captain James T . Kirk threatened to hold Federation Undersecretary for Agriculture Nilz Baris in irons if he did not " shut up " and cease his complaints about Kirk ' s actions at Deep Space Station K - 7 . ( ) In 2293 , Klingon General ordered the arrest of Captain Kirk and Doctor Leonard McCoy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon . They were subsequently placed in handcuffs until their trial . However , it was later revealed that Chang had orchestrated the whole event , and they were released , cleared of all charges . ( ) In 2367 , Tan Tsu and the pilot of the Federation freighter " Arcos " was captured by the Turkana IV Alliance , following the destruction of their ship over the planet . The Alliance placed them in handcuffs incorporating a solid metal bar in between each cuff , until they were removed by a rescue team from the . ( ) Tahna Los was handcuffed to the front by a Bajoran deputy , following his attempt to destroy the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole , in 2369 . ( ) Later that year , Constable Odo handcuffed his Rakhari prison er Croden to the rear for transport to his homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant , aboard the runabout . Odo later released the cuffs in order to elicit Croden ' s help in escaping a pursuing Miradorn raider piloted by Ah - Kel . ( ) In 2372 , during the " Julian Bashir , Secret Agent " holoprogram , Doctor Bashir , as Patrick Merriweather , used his charm to convince Doctor Honey Bare , who was imbued with the body of Jadzia Dax due to a transporter accident , to give him her hairpin . He then used it to undo handcuffs binding him and Elim Garak at the time . ( ) In 2373 , Captain Benjamin Sisko forced Maquis leader Michael Eddington to accompany him in a runabout to stop several missile s that were supposedly heading for Cardassian space . During their time on the runabout , the captain ensured Eddington remained in his handcuffs , though later took them off him during a firefight with Jem ' Hadar forces . ( ) In 2374 , following Ishka ' s capture by Dominion forces , Starfleet handed over the Vorta Keevan to a Ferengi rescue team comprising Quark , Rom , Nog , Brunt , and Leck in order to exchange him for Ishka . During the journey from Deep Space 9 to the site of the exchange on Empok Nor , Keevan remained firmly handcuffed to the front . Similarly , Ishka was also restrained in irons prior to the exchange . ( ) Later that year , Doctor Julian Bashir was handcuffed and paraded down the Promenade of Deep Space 9 to the security office , during Luther Sloan ' s holographic recreation of the station . The holographic representation of Captain Sisko protested , claiming a Starfleet officer shouldn ' t be dragged across the Promenade in irons . ( ) B ' Elanna Torres was put into manacles by the Mari Constabulary when she was brought into a reorientation facility to receive an engramatic purge . ( ) In 2375 , Ezri Dax had a nightmare about Hector Ilario , who had recently been murder ed , being led down a corridor on Deep Space 9 in handcuffs by Odo . ( ) In 2376 , following the apprehension of Crewman Noah Lessing for his participation in a scheme to use nucleogenic lifeform s as fuel for the , Captain Kathryn Janeway had him placed in handcuffs and held in the ' s cargo bay , where he was subject to interrogation . ( )