Admiral

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Admiral insignia

Alternate Admiral insignia

For all ranks commonly referred to as admiral in Starfleet, please see Flag officer.

Admiral was a military rank, the equivalent of which was used by the service organizations of many civilizations. As a traditional grade, admiral was the most senior flag officer rank of a naval organization, senior to a captain. Admirals commanded fleets of ships, as opposed to captains commanding single ships or units. In comparison to other ranking systems, this rank was equivalent to the ground-based rank of general, or the Cardassian Union's quasi-military rank of legate.

Many rank systems, including that used by various incarnations of Starfleet, were known to use several grades of the admiral rank, which included, in order from most senior: fleet admiral, admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral, and rear admiral lower half (also known simply as commodore). All grades of admiral were generally addressed as "admiral".

This grade was used in some form by many other cultures, including the Romulan Star Empire, the Klingon Empire, and the navies of Earth.

Admirals

Starfleet

These admirals held the flag officer grade of admiral in Starfleet:

• Jonathan Archer (Chief of Staff, Starfleet Command)]
• Richard B. Barnett
• Bullock (Starfleet Command)
• Daniel Curry (Starfleet Mission Operations Center)
• Erma Felna (Starfleet Tactical Command)
• Sandy Fries (Starfleet Mission Operations)
• Richard James (Fleet Operations)
• Gerald Kawaoki (Starfleet Mission Operations Unit)
• Marcia Meldal-Johnsan
• Kurt Nelson (Starfleet Tactical Command)
• Nsomeka
• Owen Paris (Starfleet Communications)
• Strickler (Starfleet Headquarters)
• T'Lara
• Kathryn Trimble (Starfleet Operational Support Services)
• Charles Whatley

Alternate Reality

• Jonathan Archer
• Richard Barnett
• Christopher Pike

Other

• Black in the mirror universe (Terran Empire Starfleet)
• William T. Riker in an unknown, alternate future timeframe (Commanding officer, Starbase 247)

Flag officers, regardless of title or grade (possibly excepting commodores), could be referred to as "admiral", meaning that many admirals referred to in dialog or other references where they were not seen may have possibly held this specific grade. For admirals with an uncertain grade, see Starfleet flag officers.

Romulan military

• Alidar Jarok
• Mendak
• Valdore

Other

• Admiral Horatio Nelson (Earth, Royal Navy)

This chart shows only general equivalencies based on the ranks used by many governments on Earth, as well as the rest of the galaxy.

External link

• Admiral at Wikipedia