<P> In altcanon sources like the original 1975 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Johnson 's Worlds of the Federation , as well as the Next Generation Last Unicorn and original Fasa roleplaying games , the Federation 's five founding members were Earth ( or Terra ) , Vulcan , Tellar , Andor , and Alpha Centauri ( known also as Al Rijil , or by the Terran astronomical abbreviation ACen ) . Fandom and various altcanon works assert that founding member Alpha Centauri is home to a human race ( transplanted by the Preservers from classical third - century BC Greece ) known as , variously , the Centaurans , the Centaurians , or the Centauri , a perspective supported by the description of Zefram Cochrane , in the classic episode `` Metamorphosis '' , as ' Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri ' . Altcanon explanations hold that Cochrane was either a Centauri himself or , more likely , a resident ( the novel Federation , for instance , sets his home on Alpha Centauri B II , the second planet orbiting the trinary 's secondary star ) of a Terran colony in the ACen system . The films have since cemented this in canonical truth , with Cochrane born on Earth but retiring to his final years on Alpha Centauri before his disappearance and presumed death . </P>
<P> In altcanon sources like the original 1975 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Johnson 's Worlds of the Federation , as well as the Next Generation Last Unicorn and original Fasa roleplaying games , the Federation 's five founding members were Earth ( or Terra ) , Vulcan , Tellar , Andor , and Alpha Centauri ( known also as Al Rijil , or by the Terran astronomical abbreviation ACen ) . Fandom and various altcanon works assert that founding member Alpha Centauri is home to a human race ( transplanted by the Preservers from classical third - century BC Greece ) known as , variously , the Centaurans , the Centaurians , or the Centauri , a perspective supported by the description of Zefram Cochrane , in the classic episode `` Metamorphosis '' , as ' Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri ' . Altcanon explanations hold that Cochrane was either a Centauri himself or , more likely , a resident ( the novel Federation , for instance , sets his home on Alpha Centauri B II , the second planet orbiting the trinary 's secondary star ) of a Terran colony in the ACen system . The films have since cemented this in canonical truth , with Cochrane born on Earth but retiring to his final years on Alpha Centauri before his disappearance and presumed death . </P>
who were the founding members of the united federation of planets
who were the founding members of the united federation of planets
Earth ( or Terra ) Vulcan Tellar Andor Alpha Centauri ( known also as Al Rijil , or by the Terran astronomical abbreviation ACen )
Earth ( or Terra ) Vulcan Tellar Andor Alpha Centauri ( known also as Al Rijil , or by the Terran astronomical abbreviation ACen )