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[[File:Soyuz bridge.jpg|thumb|Command division officers Captain [[Morgan Bateson]] and an unidentified female lieutenant (j.g.) on the bridge of the {{USS|Bozeman}}, shortly after 2278]]
The '''command division''' was the corps of officers within [[Starfleet]] who specialized in command and control functions on [[starbase]]s, aboard [[starship]]s, and at [[Starfleet Command]]. Members of the command division were trained in leadership and had tactical training allowing them to decisively take action in organizing and mobilizing Starfleet crews to perform missions. Command officers included most all of the [[admiral]]ty, [[captain]]s, [[First officer|executive officers]], adjutants, pilots, and [[flight controller]] (or [[helmsman]]). Command division personnel also filled posts as [[tactical officer]]s and sometimes in [[ordnance officer|ordnance]] departments.
 
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The '''command division''' was the corps of [[officer]]s and [[crewman|crewmen]] within [[Starfleet]] who specialized in command and control functions on [[starbase]]s, aboard [[starship]]s, and numerous [[Starfleet Command]] positions.
   
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==Duties==
An officer who belonged to the command division sometimes wore the division color of another department in which they specialized if said command officer became a [[security chief]], [[engineer]], or commanded a [[science officer|science]] department.
 
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Those in the command division were considered to be among Starfleet's '''supervisory personnel'''. ({{TOS|Assignment: Earth}})
   
 
Members of the command division were trained in leadership and had tactical training allowing them to decisively take action in organizing and mobilizing Starfleet crews to perform missions. Command officers included most all of the [[admiral]]ty, [[captain]]s, [[executive officer]]s, [[adjutant]]s, and [[pilot]]s ([[flight control officer]]s, [[navigator]]s, and [[helmsman|helmsmen]]). ({{TOS|The Cage}}; {{s|TOS}}, {{s|TNG}}, ''et al.'')
In the [[Earth]]'s [[Starfleet]] of the [[2140s]] and [[2150s]], line officers of command division wore gold division stripes on their [[Starfleet uniform|uniforms]]. By [[2233]], command division personnel wore blue.
 
   
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Command division personnel also filled the posts of [[communications officer]] ({{TOS|The Corbomite Maneuver|Mudd's Women|Miri|The Conscience of the King}}), [[records officer]] ({{TOS|Court Martial}}), [[phaser specialist]] ({{TOS|Balance of Terror}}), [[gunnery officer]] ({{TOS|Arena}}), [[radiation specialist]] ({{TOS|The Galileo Seven}}), [[TAC officer]] ({{TNG|Coming of Age}}), and [[strategic operations officer]]. ({{DS9|The Way of the Warrior}})
Gold was again the color of the command division throughout the [[2250s]] and [[2260s]], worn by line officers and flag officers of this division. Officers in the command division wore a five-pointed star with a lengthened upper point as an insignia on their [[assignment patch]].
 
   
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==History==
By the [[2270s]], new uniforms showed different division colors, the command division was signified by white backing their Starfleet badge, and also on uniform bands and epaulets. This continued onto the [[2280s]] uniforms, and the insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia with command white banded across.
 
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{{aquote|Wait a minute, aren't [[Miles O'Brien|you]] [[Benjamin Sisko|two]] wearing the wrong color?''"<br>[...]<br>"''In the old days, [[operations officer]]s wore [[red]], [and] command officers wore {{dis|gold|color}}...|[[Julian Bashir]]''' and '''[[Benjamin Sisko]]|2268|Trials and Tribble-ations}}
   
 
In the [[Earth]]'s [[Starfleet]] of the [[2140s]] and [[2150s]], line officers of command division wore gold division stripes on their [[Starfleet uniform|uniforms]]. ({{s|ENT}}) By [[2233]], command division personnel wore {{dis|blue|color}}. ({{film|11}})
By the uniforms used from [[2350s]] onward, red had become the command division color, and this continued through several uniform styles.
 
   
 
Gold was again the color of the command division throughout the [[2250s]] and [[2260s]], worn by line officers and flag officers of this division. Officers in the command division wore a five-pointed star with a lengthened upper point as an insignia on their [[assignment patch]]. ({{s|DIS}}; {{s|TOS}}; {{s|TAS}}; {{DS9|Trials and Tribble-ations}})
''Individuals from several possible futures, and some that have been proven to be [[alternate timeline]]s, continued to wear red when in the command division, but by the [[29th century]], several timelines had switched the command color to blue.''
 
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By the [[2270s]], new uniforms showed different division colors, the command division was signified by a [[white]] backing on their Starfleet badge, and also on uniform bands and epaulets. ({{film|1}}) This continued onto the [[2280s]] uniforms, and the insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia with command white banded across. ({{film|2}} &ndash; {{film|7}})
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By the uniforms used from [[2350s]] onward, red had become the command division color, and this continued through several uniform styles. ({{TNG|The Pegasus}}, ''et al.'')
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''Individuals from several possible futures, and some that have been proven to be [[alternate timeline]]s, continued to wear red when in the command division. ({{TNG|Parallels|All Good Things...}}; {{DS9|The Visitor}}; {{VOY|Endgame}}) By the [[29th century]], several timelines had switched the command color to blue. ({{VOY|Future's End|Future's End, Part II|Relativity}})''
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
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File:ErikaHernandez2154.jpg|[[Erika Hernandez]] of the<br />[[Columbia (NX-02)|NX-02]] in command<br />gold, [[2151]]
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File:Hernandez.jpg|[[Hernandez]] of the<br />''{{dis|Columbia|NX-02}}'' in command<br />gold, [[2154]]
File:Richard Robau.jpg|Captain [[Richard Robau]] of the <br />{{USS|Kelvin}} in command<br />blue, [[2233]]
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File:Richard Robau.jpg|[[Richard Robau]] of the <br />{{USS|Kelvin}} in command<br />blue, 2233
File:Number One.jpg|[[Number One]] in command gold, [[2254]]
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File:Christopher Pike, 2253.png|[[Christopher Pike]] in command gold, [[2253]]
File:Christopher Pike, 2258.jpg|{{alt|Christopher Pike}} of the [[alternate reality]] {{alt|USS Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise''}} in command gold, [[2258]]
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File:Una Chin-Riley, 2253.jpg|[[Una Chin-Riley]] in command gold, 2253
File:Phaser_room_crew_2266.jpg|A [[phaser room]] crew in<br />command gold, <br />[[2266]]
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File:Philippa Georgiou.jpg|[[Philippa Georgiou]] of the {{USS|Shenzhou}} in command gold, [[2256]]
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File:Christopher Pike, 2258.jpg|''{{alt|Christopher Pike}} of the [[alternate reality]] {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701 alternate reality}} in command gold, [[2258]]''
File:Starfleet_dress_uniforms,_late_2260s.jpg|Command Dress uniform in command green,[[2266]]
 
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File:James T. Kirk, alternate reality.jpg|''{{alt|James T. Kirk}} of the alternate reality in command gold, [[2263]]''
File:Captain_rank_pin.jpg|A [[captain]]'s rank insignia on a<br />command white uniform<br />shoulder strap, [[2280s]]
 
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File:Phaser room crew 2266.jpg|A [[phaser room]] crew in<br />command gold, <br />[[2266]]
 
File:Starfleet dress uniforms, late 2260s.jpg|Command dress uniform in command green, [[2268]]
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File:Kirk in command, 2270s.jpg|[[James T. Kirk]] with white command patch, [[2270s]]
 
File:Captain rank pin.jpg|A captain's rank insignia on a<br />command white uniform<br />shoulder strap, 2280s
 
File:Jean-Luc Picard, 2366.jpg|[[Jean-Luc Picard]] wearing<br />command red, [[2366]]
 
File:Jean-Luc Picard, 2366.jpg|[[Jean-Luc Picard]] wearing<br />command red, [[2366]]
Kathryn Janeway, 2371.jpg|Captain Kathryn Janeway (2371)
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File:Kathryn Janeway, 2371.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]] wearing<br />command red, [[2371]]
File:Sisko2375.jpg|[[Benjamin Sisko]] wearing<br />command red, [[2375]]
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File:Benjamin Sisko, 2375.jpg|Benjamin Sisko wearing<br />command red, [[2375]]
File:Braxton2.jpg|Captain [[Braxton]] of the <br />[[timeship]] {{USS|Relativity}} in command<br />blue, [[29th century]]
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File:Jack Ransom.png|[[Jack Ransom]] wearing <br />command red, [[2380]]
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File:Picard in uniform, 2385.png|[[Jean-Luc Picard]] wearing<br />command red, [[2385]]
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File:Beverly Picard.jpg|''In an [[Alternate timeline|alternate future]], Captain [[Beverly Picard]] wears command red''
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File:William Riker, 2399.jpg|[[William T. Riker]] wearing<br />command red, [[2399]]
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File:Cristóbal Rios, 2401.png|[[Cristóbal Rios]] wearing<br />command red, [[2401]]
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File:Braxton 3.jpg|Captain [[Braxton]] of the <br />[[timeship]] {{USS|Relativity}} in command<br />blue, [[29th century]]
 
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</gallery>
   
 
{{Command colors}}
 
{{Command colors}}
   
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==Command division officers ==
==Background==
 
 
{{see-list|Starfleet command division personnel}}
Captain [[Braxton]] wore blue in {{VOY|Future's End, Part II}} and {{e|Relativity}}, but an alternate version of him in {{e|Future's End}} wore red &ndash; indicating that Starfleet never changed the command color in that version.
 
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==Background information==
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===The Original Series===
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Once fully established during ''The Original Series'', command gold was regularly worn by those in positions of higher authority, such as ship captains, commodores and admirals; however, evidence suggests that this was not a requirement for holding a command position. In the first case, [[starbase]] commodores {{dis|Stone|Commodore}} and [[Stocker]] both wore [[operations division]] uniforms, yet this exception seems to exclude commodore [[José I. Mendez|Mendez]]. The second case was that of Captain [[Krasnovsky]], a starship captain who wore a [[sciences division]] uniform.
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The helm and navigation officers typically belonged to the command division, as was the case in {{e|The Cage}}, however, in {{e|Where No Man Has Gone Before}}, the positions were held by operations officers, before returning primarily back to the command division once again.
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[[Una Chin-Riley|Number One]] in "The Cage" and [[Spock]] in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" both served in the command division as [[first officer]], before he switched back to the sciences division for the duration of the series (the same color he wore in the first pilot).
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The work coveralls worn by [[technician]]s were originally muted variations on the division colors with the command division being represented by olive green, then later matching the duty uniforms. This coincides with the actual color of TOS which was lime green and only appeared gold under the lights.
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The purpose of the colors was only obvious through inference, but in {{DS9|Trials and Tribble-ations}}, gold was established in dialogue as the "old" style command color (and red as the "new" command color). The decision to switch the meaning of the colors between the TOS and TNG uniform styles was made in pre-production of {{e|Encounter at Farpoint}}.
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===The film era ===
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The schemes and insignia of the {{Star Trek films}} era uniforms were designed by [[Robert Fletcher]]. For {{film|1}}, he replaced the colorful Starfleet uniforms with [[Starfleet uniform (mid 2270s)|a series of gray and brown uniforms]], with department indicated by a colored circle behind the Starfleet logo. Command was indicated by white.
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Many of the roles previously held by command officers were distributed to other departments. Helm and navigation, for example, became part of Operations and were marked by yellow.
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Fletcher redesigned the uniforms again for {{film|2}}, putting all officers in [[Starfleet uniform (late 2270s-2350s)|maroon tunics and black slacks]]. Division was marked by a colored undershirt and trim on the jacket, with white remaining the command color. Command officers in training, such as Lt. [[Saavik]]. would wear white slashes on the red (cadet) armbands of their uniforms.
   
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[[File:Robin Curtis, TVH.jpg|thumb|Saavik as seen in {{film|4}}, with a science-gray slash on her white command armband]]
During the original series, command gold was regularly worn by the captains, admirals, helm, and navigation officers, but was also seen on phaser room ordnance crews, with some exceptions. In [[Where No Man Has Gone Before (episode)|Where No Man Has Gone Before]] both the Helm and Navigator wore Operations division colors. [[Communications officer|Communications Officer]] [[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]] briefly wore command gold, as did [[First officer|Executive Officer]] [[Spock]], but they switched over to other department colors over the course of the series. The work coveralls were originally muted variations on the division colors with the Command division being represented by olive green, then later matching the duty uniforms. This coincides with the actual color of TOS which was lime green and only appeared gold under the lights. If color correction technology in {{y|1965}} was as sophisticated as today's, Command would have never been gold and TNG Operations division might have become green. {{incite}}
 
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Command officers who were assigned to other departments had the personal choice to wear slashes of that department color on their command-white armbands and/or shoulder straps. Department heads had the option of wearing white slashes on their department bands, if they so chose, or alternatively command white undershirts with slashes of their department color. Many department heads, such as Dr. McCoy, forwent this option entirely. Montgomery Scott occasionally wore a white undershirt after receiving his promotion to captain, but only with the more casual bomber jacket and engineering vest, never with his maroon tunic.
   
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Following her command training as seen in {{film|2}}, Saavik wore command white in {{film|3}} and {{film|4}}, with a science division gray slash indicating her posting to sciences.
In the movie era, [[Saavik]] wore command white despite having a dual position as science specialist (as did Spock, but he was a captain at this point). The costume department had planned to give her uniform a science department color swatch also, but in an error, it was never seen on film. The schemes and insignia of the [[Star Trek films|''Star Trek'' films]] era uniforms were designed by [[Robert Fletcher]].
 
   
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According to his personal notes from around the period of ''The Search for Spock'' (p. 1-2), Fletcher laid out the command division this way:
The purpose of the colors was only obvious through inference, but in {{DS9|Trials and Tribble-ations}}, gold was established in dialog as the "old" style command color (and red as the "new" command color). The decision to switch the meaning of the colors between the TOS and TNG uniform styles was made in pre-production of {{e|Encounter at Farpoint}}.
 
   
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<blockquote>
Most often, in the [[Federation]] Starfleet, all captains and admirals wore command division colors; however there were exceptions which prove that this was not a requirement. In TOS, two [[commodore]]s, [[Stone (Commodore)|Stone]] and [[Stocker]], wore red [[operations division]] uniforms, and Captain [[Krasnovsky]] wore [[sciences division]] blue. In the movie era, Scotty switched back and forth from command white to engineering gold after receiving his captain's bars (ironically, he effectively used them in the "wrong" scenarios, wearing gold with his formal duty tunic but white with the more casual bomber jacket and engineering vest). In TNG era productions, {{DS9|The Die is Cast}} had an admiral named [[Toddman]] who wore operations division gold, despite every other Starfleet captain and admiral ever seen in this era wearing command colors.
 
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<small>Command division includes both <u>line</u> and [[staff officer|<u>staff</u> officers]] and all personnel, both [[enlisted]] and [[commissioned officer|commissioned]] of the following [[corps]]:</small>
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*[[Administrative Offices|<small>Administration</small>]]
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**[[Starbase Operations|<small>Base Operations</small>]]
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** [[Fleet Operations Center|<small>Fleet Operations</small>]]
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**<small>[[Personnel Deployment|Personnell]] [sic]</small>
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**[[Colonization|<small>Colonial Operations</small>]]
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*<small>General [[Accounting]]</small>
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**[[Accountant|<small>Accountants</small>]]
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**<small>Pay Masters</small>
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**<small>Budget Analysis</small>
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*[[Logistical Support|<small>Logistic Support</small>]]
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**<small>Store Keepers</small>
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**<small>Resources</small>
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** <small>Supdy [sic]<!--probably "supply"--> analysis</small>
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*<small>Technological Support</small>
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**<small>Basic Research</small>
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**<small>Energy</small>
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**<small>Planetary Facilities</small>
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*<small>[[Strategic operations officer|Strategy]] + [[Tactics officer|Tactics]]</small>
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*<small>Requirements + Plans</small>
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*<small>Exploration + Survey</small>
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*[[Inspector general|<small>Inspector General</small>]]
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**<small>Adjutant General</small>
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**[[Judge|<small>Judges</small>]]
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**[[safety officer|<small>Dept. of Space Safety</small>]]
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**<small>[[Security]] (See-5<sup>th</sup> Div.)</small>
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*[[Starfleet Intelligence|<small>Intelligence</small>]]
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*<small>Planetary Relations</small>
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**[[Starfleet Diplomatic Corps|<small>Special Diplomatic Corps.</small>]]
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**[[Translator|<small>Translators</small>]]
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*<small>Fleet Archives + Records</small>
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*<small>[[Starfleet Academy|Fleet Academy]] (See Div. 7)</small>
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Officers in command division uniforms were seen in Spacedock, Starfleet Headquarters, and on starships.
   
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===Later eras===
The closest real-world comparison to the Starfleet Command Division would be the Unrestricted Line Community of the United States Navy.
 
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During the course of ''The Next Generation'', command level officers regularly wore red uniforms, however, again another exceptional case would appear in {{DS9|The Die is Cast}}, where Admiral [[Toddman]] wore an operations uniform, the only such command level officer to do so until Commodore [[Oh]] in the first season of ''Picard''.
   
 
Captain [[Braxton]] wore blue in {{VOY|Future's End, Part II}} and {{e|Relativity}}, but an alternate version of him in "{{e|Future's End}}" wore red &ndash; indicating that Starfleet never changed the command color in that version.
   
==Related link==
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== Appendices==
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===Apocrypha===
*List of [[Starfleet command division personnel]]
 
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In the game ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' which takes place between 2409 and 2411, Starfleet began occasionally called the Command division the "tactical division". One of the reasons for this was that the departments had been changed in the command division, which now included the tactical and security departments, in addition to the regular helm, navigation and command departments.
   
 
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[[ja:司令部門]]
 
[[ja:司令部門]]
 
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Soyuz bridge

Command division officers Captain Morgan Bateson and an unidentified female lieutenant (j.g.) on the bridge of the USS Bozeman, shortly after 2278

The command division was the corps of officers and crewmen within Starfleet who specialized in command and control functions on starbases, aboard starships, and numerous Starfleet Command positions.

Duties

Those in the command division were considered to be among Starfleet's supervisory personnel. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")

Members of the command division were trained in leadership and had tactical training allowing them to decisively take action in organizing and mobilizing Starfleet crews to perform missions. Command officers included most all of the admiralty, captains, executive officers, adjutants, and pilots (flight control officers, navigators, and helmsmen). (TOS: "The Cage"; Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, et al.)

Command division personnel also filled the posts of communications officer (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver", "Mudd's Women", "Miri", "The Conscience of the King"), records officer (TOS: "Court Martial"), phaser specialist (TOS: "Balance of Terror"), gunnery officer (TOS: "Arena"), radiation specialist (TOS: "The Galileo Seven"), TAC officer (TNG: "Coming of Age"), and strategic operations officer. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")

History

"Wait a minute, aren't you two wearing the wrong color?"
[...]
"In the old days, operations officers wore red, [and] command officers wore gold..."

In the Earth's Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers of command division wore gold division stripes on their uniforms. (Star Trek: Enterprise) By 2233, command division personnel wore blue. (Star Trek)

Gold was again the color of the command division throughout the 2250s and 2260s, worn by line officers and flag officers of this division. Officers in the command division wore a five-pointed star with a lengthened upper point as an insignia on their assignment patch. (Star Trek: Discovery; Star Trek: The Original Series; Star Trek: The Animated Series; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

By the 2270s, new uniforms showed different division colors, the command division was signified by a white backing on their Starfleet badge, and also on uniform bands and epaulets. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) This continued onto the 2280s uniforms, and the insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia with command white banded across. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanStar Trek Generations)

By the uniforms used from 2350s onward, red had become the command division color, and this continued through several uniform styles. (TNG: "The Pegasus", et al.)

Individuals from several possible futures, and some that have been proven to be alternate timelines, continued to wear red when in the command division. (TNG: "Parallels", "All Good Things..."; DS9: "The Visitor"; VOY: "Endgame") By the 29th century, several timelines had switched the command color to blue. (VOY: "Future's End", "Future's End, Part II", "Relativity")

Gallery

Starfleet uniform command division colors:
2140s-Early 2160s Mid 2160s 2230s Late 2230s-2250s
Command Command Command Command Command
2250s-Early 2270s Mid 2270s Late 2270s-2350s 2350s-2370s
Command Command duty Command Command Command
Command dress
Late 2360s-Early 2370s 2370s Early 2380s Mid 2380s Late 2390s-Early 2400s
Command Command Command Command Command
Late 2800s Late 3180s Early 3190s
Command Command Command

Command division officers

Background information

The Original Series

Once fully established during The Original Series, command gold was regularly worn by those in positions of higher authority, such as ship captains, commodores and admirals; however, evidence suggests that this was not a requirement for holding a command position. In the first case, starbase commodores Stone and Stocker both wore operations division uniforms, yet this exception seems to exclude commodore Mendez. The second case was that of Captain Krasnovsky, a starship captain who wore a sciences division uniform.

The helm and navigation officers typically belonged to the command division, as was the case in "The Cage", however, in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the positions were held by operations officers, before returning primarily back to the command division once again.

Number One in "The Cage" and Spock in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" both served in the command division as first officer, before he switched back to the sciences division for the duration of the series (the same color he wore in the first pilot).

The work coveralls worn by technicians were originally muted variations on the division colors with the command division being represented by olive green, then later matching the duty uniforms. This coincides with the actual color of TOS which was lime green and only appeared gold under the lights.

The purpose of the colors was only obvious through inference, but in DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations", gold was established in dialogue as the "old" style command color (and red as the "new" command color). The decision to switch the meaning of the colors between the TOS and TNG uniform styles was made in pre-production of "Encounter at Farpoint".

The film era

The schemes and insignia of the Star Trek films era uniforms were designed by Robert Fletcher. For Star Trek: The Motion Picture, he replaced the colorful Starfleet uniforms with a series of gray and brown uniforms, with department indicated by a colored circle behind the Starfleet logo. Command was indicated by white.

Many of the roles previously held by command officers were distributed to other departments. Helm and navigation, for example, became part of Operations and were marked by yellow.

Fletcher redesigned the uniforms again for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, putting all officers in maroon tunics and black slacks. Division was marked by a colored undershirt and trim on the jacket, with white remaining the command color. Command officers in training, such as Lt. Saavik. would wear white slashes on the red (cadet) armbands of their uniforms.

Robin Curtis, TVH

Saavik as seen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, with a science-gray slash on her white command armband

Command officers who were assigned to other departments had the personal choice to wear slashes of that department color on their command-white armbands and/or shoulder straps. Department heads had the option of wearing white slashes on their department bands, if they so chose, or alternatively command white undershirts with slashes of their department color. Many department heads, such as Dr. McCoy, forwent this option entirely. Montgomery Scott occasionally wore a white undershirt after receiving his promotion to captain, but only with the more casual bomber jacket and engineering vest, never with his maroon tunic.

Following her command training as seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Saavik wore command white in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, with a science division gray slash indicating her posting to sciences.

According to his personal notes from around the period of The Search for Spock (p. 1-2), Fletcher laid out the command division this way:

Command division includes both line and staff officers and all personnel, both enlisted and commissioned of the following corps:

Officers in command division uniforms were seen in Spacedock, Starfleet Headquarters, and on starships.

Later eras

During the course of The Next Generation, command level officers regularly wore red uniforms, however, again another exceptional case would appear in DS9: "The Die is Cast", where Admiral Toddman wore an operations uniform, the only such command level officer to do so until Commodore Oh in the first season of Picard.

Captain Braxton wore blue in VOY: "Future's End, Part II" and "Relativity", but an alternate version of him in ""Future's End"" wore red – indicating that Starfleet never changed the command color in that version.

Appendices

Apocrypha

In the game Star Trek Online which takes place between 2409 and 2411, Starfleet began occasionally called the Command division the "tactical division". One of the reasons for this was that the departments had been changed in the command division, which now included the tactical and security departments, in addition to the regular helm, navigation and command departments.