Admiral (Star Trek)

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Starfleet ranks and insignia Admiral
TOS films:
*TNG, DS9, VOY*:
TNG (alternate universe):

Admiral is a commissioned Starfleet officer rank in the Star Trek fictional universe. "Admiral" is also the abbreviated title often used to address rear, vice, and fleet admirals.

Admirals appear four times in Star Trek: The Original Series:

Admiral Komack – "Amok Time"
Admiral Fitzgerald – "The Mark of Gideon"
Admiral Fitzpatrick – "The Trouble With Tribbles"
Admiral Westervliet – "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

With the exception of a brief shot in "The Trouble With Tribbles", these officers' rank insignia are not visible. As such, during the TOS time frame, all insignia above the rank of commodore remain conjectural. Also uncertain is whether these officers are full admirals.

Several admirals of various grades appear or are mentioned in the TOS-era films, including Rear (and later Vice) Admiral James Kirk and Fleet Admirals Bennett, Cartwright, Morrow, and Nogura, and an unnamed fleet admiral who serves as Starfleet commander-in-chief.^[1] Admirals' uniform jackets in Star Trek II and onward differ from field officers' uniforms with the formers' use of gold piping where the jacket opens.

The first admiral to appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation is Leonard McCoy, although he is not in uniform and it is unclear what admiral grade he reached. TNG's first admiral's uniform appears in "Hide and Q": Q wears a uniform that never appears again. Subsequent episodes established the 24th century practice of flag officers wearing distinctly different uniforms than field officers.

Rear Admiral Mark Jameson is the first uniformed flag officer to appear in TNG ("Too Short a Season"). His uniform and insignia variety, however, are not used beyond the show's first season. Starting with the show's second season, and extending throughout the runs of Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, admirals wear pip-based ranks bound in a gold box.^[1]

All three 24th century spinoffs include a variety of admirals, although the vast majority are rear or vice admirals. Full admirals include:

Admiral William Riker – In an alternate future created by Q (TNG: "All Good Things...")
Admiral Bullock – As a simulacrum of a "real" officer (Voy: "In the Flesh")
Admiral Strickler – In an alternate timeline (Voy: "Non Sequitur")
Admiral T'Lara (DS9: "Rules of Engagement")
Admiral Charlie Whatley (DS9: "Rapture")

Starfleet ranks and insignia
Flag Officers:	Fleet admiral	Admiral	Vice admiral	Rear admiral	Commodore
Officers:	Fleet captain	Captain	Commander	Lieutenant commander	Lieutenant	Lieutenant junior grade	Ensign
Other:	Enlisted	Officer cadets