answers: 2161
context: When Quark asks him how much he has earned, Sisko counters that "It's just a figure of speech." Sisko's colloquial use of "selling" here echoes similar mentions of financial-like transactions elsewhere, as when "Enterprise" engineer Montgomery Scott, in "", references having bought a boat—or when Kirk says he has sold his house in the film "Generations". Monetary topics abound in the era. In the inaugural episode "Encounter at Farpoint" set in 2364, "Enterprise" medical officer Beverly Crusher buys a bolt of fabric and asks for it to be charged to her ship's account. Some officers are known to visit casinos, </s> Coalition seems to have been the event that provoked the xenophobic Terra Prime incident in the episodes "" and "Terra Prime". After Terra Prime leader John Frederick Paxton exploited the xenophobia on Earth, many of the aliens were unnerved and nearly abandoned the idea of a coalition. However, they were convinced by a speech from Captain Jonathan Archer to give the idea of a united organization of worlds a chance. Six years later in 2161, the United Federation of Planets was organized. The Federation was founded in 2161 with the adoption of the Charter of the United Federation of Planets </s> (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 "", 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
question: when was the united federation of planets formed