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(Redirected from Lieutenant Junior Grade (Star Trek))
'Starfleet ranks and insignia' are fictional titles and badges that form the hierarchy of Starfleet in the TV show ''Star Trek'' and its spinoffs. Starfleet's ranks are based on those used by the United States Navy.
In and '', ranks are indicated by sleeve stripes; in later movies based on the original series, ranks are indicated by pins on a shoulder strap. In later television series, rank is indicated by a varying number of pips.
Some licensed Star Trek publications present insignia that sometimes contradict the ones shown on screen or in other publications. For example, the second and third editions of ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' offer differing insignias for various Starfleet ranks. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-35607-9 and The Star Trek Encyclopedia, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5 Images accessible at Rank Comparison Additionally, some Star Trek publications, including officially licensed ones, posit additional ranks that are not seen or spoken of in live action productions.
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Officers in the first ''Star Trek'' pilot, "The Cage", wear a single sleeve stripe, with only the officer grades "lieutenant" and "captain" use in dialog. A "chief" is also visible wearing a different stripe. Characters addressed as "crewman" wear no sleeve insignia.
In the second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", most officers again wear a single stripe; Captain James T. Kirk wears two stripes. Gary Mitchell is identified as a lieutenant commander.
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|align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |'Pilot ranks '
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|Chief
|All officers
|Captain
(Second Pilot)
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[1]
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1
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Costumes in ''The Original Series'' were designed by William Ware Theiss and indicate rank with sleeve stripes. This system is maintained with the '' uniforms, which Bob Fletcher designed. There are fewer stripes than used by the US Navy because four stripes for "captain" would have looked too militaristic. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Sackett, Susan and Gene Roddenberry, , , Pocket Books, 1980,
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|align="center" colspan=10 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |'Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|'Rank'
|Admiral
|Rear Admiral
|Commodore
|Captain
|Commander
|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
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|bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|''''
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
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The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-35607-9 Images accessible at 2265-2370 Ranks
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[2]
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''Does not exist''
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A rank of fleet captain is mentioned in two episodes, but no insignia is shown. A memo describing the sleeve stripes for ''The Motion Picture'' on August 3, 1978 does not mention the rank of lieutenant junior grade, and identifies the rear admiral insignia as having one double-width stripe below a single regular-width stripe.
In the original series, every member of Starfleet wears an assignment patch on their left breast, which varies from ship to ship. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5 Within this assignment patch is a symbol that represents the officer's department, with operations, science and command represented by a spiral, a circle, and a star, respectively. In ''The Motion Picture'', the emblem used as the USS ''Enterprise'' assignment patch in the original series is shown as an emblem by the entire Starfleet.[3] The reason for this has never been canonically established, although Gene Roddenberry's novelization of ''The Motion Picture'' states that it was in honor of the ''Enterprise'', which was the only ship of its class to return from its five-year mission with crew and ship mostly intact. In ''The Motion Picture'', the department is indicated by the background color of the circle on which the Starfleet arrowhead is set - white indicating command, red for engineering, orange for science, pale gold for operations, green for medical and gray for security.
Fletcher redesigned the costumes for ''. This design is used in the following movies, up to '', and variations appear in some flashback scenes of '' and ''. In this costume, Starfleet officers wear rank insignia on the uniform shoulder strap and left sleeve just above the armband.
During this era, insignia representing department are not worn; it is instead indicated by the color of the shoulder strap, armband and collar. A Starfleet insignia is worn on the left breast.
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|align="center" colspan=5 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Flag Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Fleet Admiral
|Admiral
|Vice Admiral
|Rear Admiral
|Commodore
|- align="center"
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
Robert Fletcher's Wardrobe Designer Personal Notes of Star Trek I-II-III, Fletcher, Robert, , , Lincoln Enterprises, 1986, Graphic Images accessible at 2278-2350 Ranks & Rates
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Captain
|Commander
|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
|- align="center"
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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Enlisted crew in the ''TOS'' movie era wear the following insignia on their left sleeve:
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Enlisted ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Master Chief Petty Officer
|Senior Chief Petty Officer
|Chief Petty Officer
|Petty Officer 1st Class
|Petty Officer 2nd Class
|Ables'man
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Hollywood Pins
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''Mr. Scott's Guide''4
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''Star Trek VI''
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|align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |MCPO 2nd Class insignia
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Star Trek Encyclopedia'',
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Alternate Color Scheme of Enlisted ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Master Chief Petty Officer
|Senior Chief Petty Officer
|Chief Petty Officer
|Petty Officer 1st Class
|- align=center
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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The pins seen in the Star Trek motion pictures have generated several alternate and conflicting versions from various official, semi-official, and non-canon sources.
The 1986 book ''Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise'' identifies the insignia at left as a "commodore" insignia while ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' refers to as a "fleet captain" insignia.[4]6 The ''Encyclopedia'' also lists a ''Master Chief Petty Officer 2nd class'' insignia, which is the same as the ''MCPO'', but without the hat.
Additionally, there are different representations of the lieutenant commander rank pin. ''Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise'', and subsequent sources such as the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'', show a different design than that worn by Valeris in ''.4 A third version of the pin, showing a solid vertical bar, appeared in Hollywood Pins' catalogs.
Fletcher's notes indicate that the "hat" and other parts of some of these pins are steel gray while ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' has diagrams of these parts of the same pins colored in gold.
During all the shows set in the 24th century, a consistent insignia scheme is used for officers: a series of gold pips, either a solid color or an outline, worn on each officer's right collar. After the first season of '', a consistent scheme is also used for admiral insignia: a series of gold circles inside a black rectangle with a gold border worn on both collars.6
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For the first season of ''TNG'', admirals wear a different insignia, consisting of a triangle or stripe resembling gold weave along the right collar; one or two gold pips are sometimes underneath the weave. Three variants are visible in "Conspiracy": Admiral Quinn's insignia has no pips, Admiral Savar's has one, and Admiral Aaron's has two.
'' introduces what ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' refers to as "provisional ranks" for the titular ship's Maquis crew. Only ranks up to lieutenant commander appear on screen; ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' projects the insignia through the rank of captain.
A Starfleet insignia is worn on the left breast: this also functions as a communicator badge. This commbadge insignia was redesigned for the movie '' (the only surviving part of a planned redesign of the uniforms), replacing the oval with a trapezoid.[5] This new commbadge is also used in '' from season three, and ''Voyager''.
Enlisted and cadet ranks are seen rarely; their insignia are unclear.
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|'Rank'
|Fleet Admiral
|Four-Star Admiral
|Three-Star Admiral
|Two-Star Admiral
|One-Star Admiral
|- align="center"
|bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|'''TNG''', '''DS9''', '''VOY'''
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-35607-9 Images accessible at 2366-2372 Ranks
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|'Rank'
|Captain
|Commander
|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
|- align="center"
|bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|'''TNG''', '''DS9''', '''VOY'''
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[6]
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6
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6
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6
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6
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6
|- align="center"|- align="center"
|bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|'Provisional'
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|Season 4+
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Miles O'Brien originally wears two gold pips and is referred to as a lieutenant. While wearing this insignia in "Family", he is referred to as a chief petty officer by Worf's stepfather; the ''TNG Companion'' regards this an error.[7] He continues to wear this insignia until the sixth season, when he starts wearing a hollow gold pip, which is identified by ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' as the "chief warrant officer" insignia. In the pilot episode of ''Deep Space Nine'', "Emissary", he again wears the two-pip insignia, and that episode's novelization refers to him as "ensign junior grade".[8] He again wears the one-pip device in the next episode, "Past Prologue".[9] From the fourth season on, he wears a new rank insignia, shown to the right. The fourth-season episode "Hippocratic Oath" identifies him as a "chief petty officer". ''Deep Space Nine's writers have explained that they disliked the term "petty officer" and thus originally avoided using it; O'Brien's insignia is intended to represent the second-highest petty officer rank.[10] Ronald D. Moore suggested that O'Brien, if promoted, would become a master chief petty officer.[11]
Other insignia appear but the rank they denote is uncertain. Examples include Kosinski's insignia in "Where No One Has Gone Before" and Luther Sloan's insignia in "Inquisition".
The ''Star Trek: Next Generation Officer's Manual'', a roleplaying manual published by FASA in 1988, shortly before it lost its license, includes insignia for ''TNG''-era commodores, fleet captains, and branch admirals.[14]
In the '' episode "Parallels", officers wear a series of stripes behind the Starfleet delta. The collar insignia are worn as well.
The 29th century officers in the '' episode "Relativity" wear chevron-like collar insignia.
The prequel series '' does not include characters who hold the ranks of lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant commander. The highest ranking admiral seen wears a three-pip insignia.
Ensign
Lieutenant
Commander
Captain
Commodore
Rear Admiral
Vice Admiral
1.
Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, , Herbert F., Sollow, DIANE Publishing Company, ,
2.
3. Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1996, ISBN 0-671-53610-9
4. Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, Johnson, Shane, , , Pocket Books, 1987, ISBN 0-671-63576-X
5. New Movie Costumes Planned
6. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, Nemeck, Larry, , , Pocket Books, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-5798-6
8. Emissary, , J.M., Dillard, Pocket Books, ,
9. A Question of Rank...
10. Deep Space Nine Companion, Erdmann, Terry with Block, Paula M, , , Pocket Books, 2000, ISBN 0671501062
11. Answers
12.
13.
14. Star Trek The Next Generation Officer's Manual, Stuart, Rick & Terra, John, , , FASA Corporation, 1988, ISBN 1-55560-079-4
★ Starfleet uniforms
★ Naval officer ranks
★ Captain (Star Trek)
The Starfleet insignia in the late 23rd century
The Starfleet logo in the 24th century
'Starfleet ranks and insignia' are fictional titles and badges that form the hierarchy of Starfleet in the TV show ''Star Trek'' and its spinoffs. Starfleet's ranks are based on those used by the United States Navy.
In and '', ranks are indicated by sleeve stripes; in later movies based on the original series, ranks are indicated by pins on a shoulder strap. In later television series, rank is indicated by a varying number of pips.
Some licensed Star Trek publications present insignia that sometimes contradict the ones shown on screen or in other publications. For example, the second and third editions of ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' offer differing insignias for various Starfleet ranks. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-35607-9 and The Star Trek Encyclopedia, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5 Images accessible at Rank Comparison Additionally, some Star Trek publications, including officially licensed ones, posit additional ranks that are not seen or spoken of in live action productions.
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Pilots
Officers in the first ''Star Trek'' pilot, "The Cage", wear a single sleeve stripe, with only the officer grades "lieutenant" and "captain" use in dialog. A "chief" is also visible wearing a different stripe. Characters addressed as "crewman" wear no sleeve insignia.
In the second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", most officers again wear a single stripe; Captain James T. Kirk wears two stripes. Gary Mitchell is identified as a lieutenant commander.
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|align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |'Pilot ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Chief
|All officers
|Captain
(Second Pilot)
|- align="center"
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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|}
''The Original Series'' and ''The Motion Picture''
Costumes in ''The Original Series'' were designed by William Ware Theiss and indicate rank with sleeve stripes. This system is maintained with the '' uniforms, which Bob Fletcher designed. There are fewer stripes than used by the US Navy because four stripes for "captain" would have looked too militaristic. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Sackett, Susan and Gene Roddenberry, , , Pocket Books, 1980,
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|align="center" colspan=10 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |'Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|'Rank'
|Admiral
|Rear Admiral
|Commodore
|Captain
|Commander
|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
|- align="center"
|bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|''''
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no insignia''
|-align="center"
| bgcolor="#e6e9ff" style="vertical-align: middle;"|''''
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''no information''
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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|style="vertical-align: middle;"|''Does not exist''
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A rank of fleet captain is mentioned in two episodes, but no insignia is shown. A memo describing the sleeve stripes for ''The Motion Picture'' on August 3, 1978 does not mention the rank of lieutenant junior grade, and identifies the rear admiral insignia as having one double-width stripe below a single regular-width stripe.
In the original series, every member of Starfleet wears an assignment patch on their left breast, which varies from ship to ship. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5 Within this assignment patch is a symbol that represents the officer's department, with operations, science and command represented by a spiral, a circle, and a star, respectively. In ''The Motion Picture'', the emblem used as the USS ''Enterprise'' assignment patch in the original series is shown as an emblem by the entire Starfleet.[3] The reason for this has never been canonically established, although Gene Roddenberry's novelization of ''The Motion Picture'' states that it was in honor of the ''Enterprise'', which was the only ship of its class to return from its five-year mission with crew and ship mostly intact. In ''The Motion Picture'', the department is indicated by the background color of the circle on which the Starfleet arrowhead is set - white indicating command, red for engineering, orange for science, pale gold for operations, green for medical and gray for security.
''TOS'' movie era
Fletcher redesigned the costumes for ''. This design is used in the following movies, up to '', and variations appear in some flashback scenes of '' and ''. In this costume, Starfleet officers wear rank insignia on the uniform shoulder strap and left sleeve just above the armband.
During this era, insignia representing department are not worn; it is instead indicated by the color of the shoulder strap, armband and collar. A Starfleet insignia is worn on the left breast.
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|align="center" colspan=5 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Flag Officer ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Fleet Admiral
|Admiral
|Vice Admiral
|Rear Admiral
|Commodore
|- align="center"
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Captain
|Commander
|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
|- align="center"
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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Enlisted crew in the ''TOS'' movie era wear the following insignia on their left sleeve:
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Enlisted ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Master Chief Petty Officer
|Senior Chief Petty Officer
|Chief Petty Officer
|Petty Officer 1st Class
|Petty Officer 2nd Class
|Ables'man
|- align=center
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
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Conflicts
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Hollywood Pins
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''Mr. Scott's Guide''4
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''Star Trek VI''
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|align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |MCPO 2nd Class insignia
|- align="center"
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Star Trek Encyclopedia'',
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|align="center" colspan=8 bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |' Alternate Color Scheme of Enlisted ranks '
|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|Master Chief Petty Officer
|Senior Chief Petty Officer
|Chief Petty Officer
|Petty Officer 1st Class
|- align=center
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|style="vertical-align: middle;"|
|}
The pins seen in the Star Trek motion pictures have generated several alternate and conflicting versions from various official, semi-official, and non-canon sources.
The 1986 book ''Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise'' identifies the insignia at left as a "commodore" insignia while ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' refers to as a "fleet captain" insignia.[4]6 The ''Encyclopedia'' also lists a ''Master Chief Petty Officer 2nd class'' insignia, which is the same as the ''MCPO'', but without the hat.
Additionally, there are different representations of the lieutenant commander rank pin. ''Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise'', and subsequent sources such as the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'', show a different design than that worn by Valeris in ''.4 A third version of the pin, showing a solid vertical bar, appeared in Hollywood Pins' catalogs.
Fletcher's notes indicate that the "hat" and other parts of some of these pins are steel gray while ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' has diagrams of these parts of the same pins colored in gold.
24th-century spin-offs
During all the shows set in the 24th century, a consistent insignia scheme is used for officers: a series of gold pips, either a solid color or an outline, worn on each officer's right collar. After the first season of '', a consistent scheme is also used for admiral insignia: a series of gold circles inside a black rectangle with a gold border worn on both collars.6
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|align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff" style="font-size:110%; " |"Conspiracy" admiral insignia
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|align="center"|
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|align="center"|
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|align="center"|
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For the first season of ''TNG'', admirals wear a different insignia, consisting of a triangle or stripe resembling gold weave along the right collar; one or two gold pips are sometimes underneath the weave. Three variants are visible in "Conspiracy": Admiral Quinn's insignia has no pips, Admiral Savar's has one, and Admiral Aaron's has two.
'' introduces what ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' refers to as "provisional ranks" for the titular ship's Maquis crew. Only ranks up to lieutenant commander appear on screen; ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' projects the insignia through the rank of captain.
A Starfleet insignia is worn on the left breast: this also functions as a communicator badge. This commbadge insignia was redesigned for the movie '' (the only surviving part of a planned redesign of the uniforms), replacing the oval with a trapezoid.[5] This new commbadge is also used in '' from season three, and ''Voyager''.
Enlisted and cadet ranks are seen rarely; their insignia are unclear.
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{|width=100% align=center class="infobox bordered" cellpadding="4" style="font-size: 95%;"
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|- align="center" bgcolor="#e6e9ff"
|'Rank'
|Fleet Admiral
|Four-Star Admiral
|Three-Star Admiral
|Two-Star Admiral
|One-Star Admiral
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|Lieutenant
Commander
|Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
Junior Grade
|Ensign
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Conflicts
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Miles O'Brien originally wears two gold pips and is referred to as a lieutenant. While wearing this insignia in "Family", he is referred to as a chief petty officer by Worf's stepfather; the ''TNG Companion'' regards this an error.[7] He continues to wear this insignia until the sixth season, when he starts wearing a hollow gold pip, which is identified by ''The Star Trek Encyclopedia'' as the "chief warrant officer" insignia. In the pilot episode of ''Deep Space Nine'', "Emissary", he again wears the two-pip insignia, and that episode's novelization refers to him as "ensign junior grade".[8] He again wears the one-pip device in the next episode, "Past Prologue".[9] From the fourth season on, he wears a new rank insignia, shown to the right. The fourth-season episode "Hippocratic Oath" identifies him as a "chief petty officer". ''Deep Space Nine's writers have explained that they disliked the term "petty officer" and thus originally avoided using it; O'Brien's insignia is intended to represent the second-highest petty officer rank.[10] Ronald D. Moore suggested that O'Brien, if promoted, would become a master chief petty officer.[11]
Kosinski's insignia[2]
Other insignia appear but the rank they denote is uncertain. Examples include Kosinski's insignia in "Where No One Has Gone Before" and Luther Sloan's insignia in "Inquisition".
The ''Star Trek: Next Generation Officer's Manual'', a roleplaying manual published by FASA in 1988, shortly before it lost its license, includes insignia for ''TNG''-era commodores, fleet captains, and branch admirals.[14]
Alternate reality and 29th century
In the '' episode "Parallels", officers wear a series of stripes behind the Starfleet delta. The collar insignia are worn as well.
The 29th century officers in the '' episode "Relativity" wear chevron-like collar insignia.
''Enterprise''
The prequel series '' does not include characters who hold the ranks of lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant commander. The highest ranking admiral seen wears a three-pip insignia.
Ensign
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Lieutenant
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Commander
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Captain
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Commodore
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Rear Admiral
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Vice Admiral
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References
1.
Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, , Herbert F., Sollow, DIANE Publishing Company, ,
2.
3. Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future, , Mike, Okuda, Pocket Books, 1996, ISBN 0-671-53610-9
4. Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, Johnson, Shane, , , Pocket Books, 1987, ISBN 0-671-63576-X
5. New Movie Costumes Planned
6. The Star Trek Encyclopedia, Okuda, Michael & Denise, , , Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0-671-53609-5
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, Nemeck, Larry, , , Pocket Books, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-5798-6
8. Emissary, , J.M., Dillard, Pocket Books, ,
9. A Question of Rank...
10. Deep Space Nine Companion, Erdmann, Terry with Block, Paula M, , , Pocket Books, 2000, ISBN 0671501062
11. Answers
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13.
14. Star Trek The Next Generation Officer's Manual, Stuart, Rick & Terra, John, , , FASA Corporation, 1988, ISBN 1-55560-079-4
See also
★ Starfleet uniforms
★ Naval officer ranks
★ Captain (Star Trek)
External links
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