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Starfleet ranks & rates
2351-2365

Commissioned officers
Fleet Admiral  
Admiral  
Vice Admiral
VADM Aaron
TNG Conspiracy
Rear Admiral (upper half)
RADM Savar
TNG Conspiracy
Rear Admiral (lower half)
RDML Gregory Quinn
TNG Conspiracy
Captain
CAPT Jean-Luc Picard
TNG Conspiracy
Commander
CDR Beverly Crusher
TNG Coming of Age
Lieutenant Commander
LCDR Dexter Remmick
TNG Coming of Age
Lieutenant
LT Logan
TNG The Arsenal of Freedom
Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTJG Geordi La Forge
TNG The Arsenal of Freedom
Ensign
ENS Haskell
TNG Where Silence Has Lease
Enlisted personnel
Master Chief Petty Officer
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Chief Petty Officer


CPO Gladstone
TNG The Child

Petty Officer 1st class
Petty Officer 2nd class
Petty Officer 3rd class
Crewman 1st class
Crewman 2nd class
Crewman 3rd class

no insignia


CN Rondon
TNG Coming of Age

Provisional officers

Captain  
Commander  
Lieutenant Commander  
Lieutenant  
Lieutenant Junior Grade
LTJG Kosinski
TNG Where No One Has Gone Before
Ensign  
Chief Petty Officer  

Annotations & Trivia:

  • No official information regarding the admiralty rank insignia has been released, so it's pretty much an educated guess on my part based on the assumption that the insignia mirror current U.S. Navy admiralty rank stripes. Thus, the braid would be equivalent to the Navy 2 inch stripe and the pips equivalent to the 1/2 inch stripes.
  • My decision to call the most junior admiral rank "Rear Admiral (lower half)" instead of "Commodore" is based on three clues:
    1. The TNG rank pips have far more in common with current U.S. Navy rank stripes than with TOS rank stripes. Thus, it's not unreasonable to assume that TPTB not only adopted the rank scheme but also the terminology.
    2. The only two Starfleet officers who wore Admiralty braid without pips, Mark Jameson and Gregory Quinn, were referred to as "Admiral".
    3. In the TNG episode "Coming of Age", Picard was offered a promotion from captain to admiral.
  • For my rationalisation of the simplified enlisted rates structure please refer to the annotations on the 2366-2372 ranks & rates page.
  • The provisional rank markers were only used in the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before". It has been suggested that they might denote warrant officers. However, considering the lack of an Starfleet insignia on Kosinski's uniform and his very disrespectful behaviour towards superior officers, I find it far more likely that he was a civilian with a provisional commission for the duration of his assignment aboard Starfleet vessels.

 

 

Last updated: Januar 17, 2007
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