The command division is the corps of officers within Starfleet who specialize in command and control functions on starbases, aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command. Members of the command division are trained in leadership and have tactical training allowing them to decisively take action in organizing and mobilizing Starfleet crews to perform missions. Command officers include most all of the admiralty, captains, executives, adjutants, pilots and flight controller (or helmsman). Command division personnel also fill posts as tactical officers and sometimes in ordnance departments.
Officers who belong to the command division sometimes wear the division color of another department which they specialize in, if said command officer were to become a security chief, engineer, or command a science department.
In the Earth's Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers of command division wore gold division stripes on their uniforms.
Gold was still 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.
By the uniforms used from 2350s onward, red had become the command division color, and this has continued through several uniform styles. |
