Information
Information was a collection of  and facts. Information provided answers to questions and helped in decision-making. Aboard spacecraft, information was stored in the computers memory banks, where it could be accessed by crewmembers. In individuals, information was stored in their memories.

In 2065, before the  was destroyed, the ship's captain made urgent repeated requests from the ship's computer records for information about ESP in Humans. ()

In 2254, Captain Christopher Pike, with little information on hand for Talos IV, decided to place Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley, his most experienced officer, in command of the  while he led a landing party to the planet's surface. ()

In 2268, Triacus was an uninhabited planet according to the best of information presently available to James T. Kirk and Spock. Later, Spock's tricorder detected a non-humanoid lifeform inside a cave, though it was impossible to make any specific identification as the readings did not correlate with any known information. ()

In 2368, Captain Jean-Luc Picard asked to see the time traveler Berlinghoff Rasmussen because his presence gave him a potential access to a kind of information that he'd never had available to him before. ()

The deep space probe Friendship 1 was full of information which contained translation matrices, scientific and cultural databases, computer chip designs, instructions for building transceivers. It was practically a how-to manual. The recording from Friendship 1 contained the phrase "We offer this information freely with the  that one day we will stand on your soil and extend our hands in friendship." ()

See also 
 Classified information
 Information dealer
 Information exchange
 Information kiosk
 Misinformation
 Disinformation

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