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Starfleet ranks and insignia are hierarchical titles and badges of office which appear in the science fiction universe of Star Trek. Such ranks and insignia form the hierarchy of Starfleet, the defensive and scientific exploration arm of the United Federation of Planets. The ranks and insignia of Starfleet are based on the historic titles used by the United States Navy of Earth.

Starfleet ranks and titles have evolved through both live action productions, official publications, and the fanon of the Star Trek Expanded Universe. The most official ranks established are those which appear in Star Trek films and television productions, with ranks appearing in publications from Star Trek producers considered "secondary", but nevertheless still officially established Starfleet titles. The least official of all ranks are those which appear in Star Trek fan literature, such as magazines and websites published by private persons with little or no affiliation with the Star Trek series. Such ranks are considered conjecture, yet occasionally may find their way into semi-official Star Trek sources (an example being the rank of Branch Admiral).

The following is a compilation of the ranks and insignia of Starfleet to include official ranks from series productions, semi-official titles from Star Trek publications, and conjectured ranks from Star Trek fan publications.

Commissioned officers

Officer ranks
Rank	Fleet Captain	Captain	Commander	Lieutenant Commander	Lieutenant	Lieutenant Junior Grade	Ensign
Enterprise	N/A	File:Star Trek Enterprise OF5.png	File:Star Trek Enterprise OF4.png	N/A	File:Star Trek Enterprise OF2.png	N/A	File:Star Trek Enterprise OF1b.png
Star Trek Pilots	File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png	File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png	File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png	File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png	File:Star Trek Pilot Officer.png	No insignia	No insignia
Original Series	File:Star Trek Tos OF5a.png	File:Star Trek Tos OF5b.png	File:Star Trek Tos OF4.png	File:Star Trek Tos OF3.png	File:Star Trek Tos OF2.png	File:Star Trek Tos OF1a.png	No insignia
The Motion Picture	N/A	File:Star Trek TMP OF5.png	File:Star Trek TMP OF4.png	File:Star Trek TMP OF3.png	File:Star Trek TMP OF2.png	N/A	File:Star Trek TMP OF1b.png
Feature Films	File:Star Trek Film OF5a.png	File:Star Trek Film OF5b.png	File:Star Trek Film OF4.png	File:Star Trek Film OF3a.png	File:Star Trek Film OF1a.png	File:Star Trek Film OF1c.png	No insignia
TNG 1 season	N/A	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF5.png	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF4.png	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF3.png	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF2.png	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF1a.png	File:Star Trek TNG S1 OF1b.png
TNG, DS9, VOY	File:Star Trek TNG OF5a.png		File:Star Trek TNG OF4.png	File:Star Trek TNG OF3.png	File:Star Trek TNG OF2.png	File:Star Trek TNG OF1a.png	File:Star Trek TNG OF1b.png
VOY (provisional ranks)	N/A		File:Voyager OF4.png	File:Voyager OF3.png	File:Voyager OF2.png	File:Voyager OF1a.png	File:Voyager OF1b.png
VOY (29 century)	N/A	File:29th century star trek Of 5.jpg	File:29th century star trek Of 4.jpg	File:29th century star trek Of 3.jpg	File:29th century star trek Of 2.jpg	File:29th century star trek Of 1a.jpg	File:29th century star trek Of 1b.jpg

Other ranks

Enlisted ranks
Rank	Master Chief Petty Officer	Senior Chief Petty Officer	Chief Petty Officer	Petty Officer 1 Class	Petty Officer 2 Class	Petty Officer 3 Class	Crewman 1 Class	Crewman 2 Class / Crewman	Crewman 3 Class / Recruit
Enterprise	N/A	N/A	Conjectured	Conjectured	Conjectured	Conjectured	File:Ent En 3.png	File:Ent En 2.png	File:Ent En 1.png
The Motion Picture	Conjectured	Conjectured					No Insignia	No Insignia	No Insignia
Feature Films	File:Star Trek Film OR9.png	File:Star Trek Film OR8.png	File:Star Trek Film OR7.png	File:Star Trek Film OR6.png	File:Star Trek Film OR5.png	File:Star Trek Film OR4.png	File:Star Trek Film OR3.png	No Insignia	No Insignia
TNG	File:St-tng masterchiefpettyofficer.png	File:St-tng seniorchiefpettyofficer.png	File:St-tng chiefpettyofficer.png	File:St-tng pettyofficer.png	File:St-tng pettyofficer.png	File:St-tng pettyofficer.png	No Insignia	No Insignia	No Insignia
DS9	File:Star Trek DS9 OR9.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR8.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR7.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR6.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR5.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR4.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR3.png	File:Star Trek DS9 OR2.png	No Insignia
Enlisted personnel from Star Trek: The Original Series wore uniforms without rank insignia

Alternate reality ranks

Conjectural ranks

Star Trek publications and fan literature sometime offer additional ranks which have not been mentioned in official publications or spoken of in live action productions. In addition, a number of unofficial sources have offered alternative insignia for several Starfleet ranks. This tendency is compounded by officially licensed products which sometimes explicitly state the existence of ranks and insignia which are never shown in the actual productions, or even sometimes contradict what is shown onscreen. In other cases costuming errors cause characters to wear unusual insignia and fans try to interpret some actual meaning into the error.

Because the rank insignia of Starfleet usually follow a simple geometric progression of circles, stripes, blocks, triangles or other symbols, many fans often speculate what unusual combinations or very large numbers of these symbols would designate in terms of rank, or what the insignia of modern or historic ranks not depicted in the show would be.

Conjectural and alternate ranks are not considered official by the producers of Star Trek; however several such ranks have found their way into mention by canon Star Trek sources. One of the most significant such ranks was that of Branch Admiral, which was mentioned briefly in a Star Trek roleplaying manual and later speculated to have actually appeared in the Next Generation pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint".

Notes

In the book The Making of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry stated that he did not see enlisted men as part of the Starfleet tradition. He reasoned that every crewmember of the Enterprise was "the equivalent of a qualified astronaut" and therefore an officer. In The Original Series, this could be explained by the numerous extras wearing simple jumpsuits instead of Starfleet uniforms. Also, during the TNG era of Star Trek, almost all Starfleet personell encountered were officers at the rank of ensign or higher with no reference to non officer ranks. Many fans assumed an error when Sergey Roshenko referred to Chief Miles O'Brien as a Chief petty officer, being accustomed to the title of "chief" being given to an officer in charge of a department (example: Security Chief or Chief of Engineering) and the fact that O'Brien wore pips that indicated Lieutenant Jr. Grade rank. However, there has never been anything on screen to exclude the inclusion of enlisted crewmen and non-commisioned officers.

References

1. as seen aboard the USS Timeship "Relativity" - Series 5

Live action sources

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Films	The Original Series The Motion Picture The Wrath of Khan The Search for Spock The Voyage Home The Final Frontier The Undiscovered Country The Next Generation Generations First Contact Insurrection Nemesis Reboot (Kelvin Timeline) Star Trek Into Darkness Beyond Television Section 31
Setting	Characters A–F G–M N–S T–Z Crossovers Concepts Games Kobayashi Maru Law Prime Directive Materials Dilithium Sexuality Stardate Locations Class M planet Galactic quadrant Mirror Universe Cultures and species Andorian Bajoran Borg Breen Cardassian Dominion Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Gorn Kazon Klingon High Council culture language grammar Maquis Orion Q Romulan Species 8472 United Federation of Planets Starfleet Academy Section 31 Tribble Vidiians Vulcan nerve pinch salute Xindi Technology Cloaking device Communicator Deflector shields Holodeck Hypospray Impulse drive Jefferies tube LCARS Medicine Replicator Spacecraft Deep Space Nine Defiant Earth Spacedock Enterprise NX-01 NCC-1701 A D E Klingon starships Shuttlecraft Voyager Transporter Tricorder Uniforms Warp drive Weapons Bat'leth
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Unmade projects	The God Thing Planet of the Titans Phase II Star Trek 4
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Aftershows	After Trek The Ready Room
Documentaries	Trekkies Mind Meld Trekkies 2 How William Shatner Changed the World Beyond the Final Frontier The Captains Trek Nation For the Love of Spock What We Left Behind
Cultural influence	First Contact Day Star Trek Day Kirk and Uhura's kiss Comparison to Star Wars Fandom productions Kirk/Spock Memory Alpha Shakespeare and Star Trek The Exhibition The Experience "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" (1976 SNL sketch) Free Enterprise (1999 film) Galaxy Quest (1999 film) "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (2002 Futurama episode) The Orville (2017 television series) Please Stand By (2017 film) "USS Callister" (2017 Black Mirror episode)
Category

Publications

• Joseph, Franz (1975). Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-34074-4.
• Johnson, Shane (1987). Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-63576-X.
• Stuart, Rick & Terra, John (1988). Star Trek The Next Generation Officer's Manual. Chicago: FASA Corporation. ISBN 1-55560-079-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Christensen, David & Doser, Cathy (1989). Klingon Covert Operations Manual. Sue Burchfield.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Schmidt, David (1991). Starfleet Dynamics. Canada: Strategic Design Publications.
• David Hutchison (1992). "Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Journal". Starlog Magazine: 29–41.
• Okuda, Michael & Denise (1994,1997,1999). Star Trek Encyclopedia. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-03475-8. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Okuda, Michael & Denise (1996). Star Trek Chronology. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53610-9.

Internet sources

• "Rank Comparison Chart". Spike's Star Trek Page Rank Comparison Chart. Retrieved August 16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
• "Starfleet Rank Chart". The Trekker's Galactopedia Insignia Section. Retrieved May 9. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

See also

• Comparative ranks and insignia of Star Trek
• List of Starfleet officers
• List of Starfleet officers by rank
• Rank insignia of the Galactic Empire
• Hollywood Pins
• Military rank
• Naval officer ranks
• Ranks and insignia of NATO

External links

• Description of Starfleet ranks
• The Trekker's Galactopedia
• Starfleet ranks and insignia at Memory Alpha

• Star Trek ranks