Privacy
Privacy was the ability to keep some of one's experiences and life from others.

A common phrase was, "to speak with someone in private". ()

According to Captain Jonathan Archer, dating wasn't discouraged aboard  but there wasn't a lot of privacy. He answered this to a question from Geoff Miles in 2151. ()

During the 23rd century, on Starfleet ships when particularly private conversations needed to be had, the captain had the ability to order the ship's computer to observe their privacy. ()

In 2367, the con artist styling herself as "" attempted to seduce Captain Jean-Luc Picard in his quarters. He attempted both to activate an intruder alert and to contact the 's bridge, but neither attempt was successful and she told him that she had arranged for a bit of privacy. ()

That same year, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge disconnected both the audio and visual pickups inside the Enterprise-D's conference room so that Reginald Barclay could not monitor the senior staff after he had created a neural scan interface which transferred much of his higher brain functions into the starboard computer core. ()

The Cairn, a telepathic species, did not understand the concept of privacy, as nothing among them was hidden. In 2370, when Maques detected a part of Lwaxana Troi that was "dark," her daughter Deanna Troi initially believed mistakenly that Maques was referring to privacy, not realizing that he had sensed her mother's metaconscious, in which she had suppressed her memory of her lost daughter Kestra. ()

During the 24th century, Federation citizens using recreational holoprograms had some expectancy of privacy. () In 2373, when Tom Paris discovered B'Elanna Torres using the program Insurrection Alpha, she asked him if he was in the habit of walking in on people's private holodeck time. He reminded her that they had a lunch date and, referencing the unusual contents of the program, stated that he had expected to find her shooting pool at Sandrine's, rather than hanging out with Seska. ()

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