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INSIGNIA SUBSECTION: Federation Starfleet rank insignia, chronological.
2260s


SLEEVE INSIGNIA
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flag officers
command
division
sciences
division
operations
division
marine/infantry equivalents
Commander-in-chief
(conjecture)

commodore insig
commodore insig


commodore insig
commodore insig

probably not applicable
Fleet admiral
(conjecture
; no officer of this rank has ever been seen wearing a division color besides command)

lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
lieut insig

Marshal
(conjecture)
Admiral
(conjecture; no officer of this rank has ever been seen wearing a division color besides command)

lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig

General
(conjecture
, rank exists in ENT MACOs)
Vice admiral
("The Trouble With Tribbles")

lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig
*Fitzpatrick
"The Trouble With Tribbles"


lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
commodore insig
lieut insig

Lieutenant general
(conjecture)
Rear admiral
(variant of Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

lieut insig
commodore insig


lieut insig
commodore insig


lieut insig
commodore insig


lieut insig
commodore insig


lieut insig
commodore insig

Major general
(conjecture)
Commodore
("Court-Martial")

commodore insig


commodore insig

*Mendez
"The Menagerie"


commodore insig


commodore insig
*Stone
"Court Martial"


commodore insig

Brigadier
(conjecture)
line officers
command
division
sciences
division
operations
division
field officer equivalents
Fleet captain
(Star Fleet Technical Manual; This is not a "real" rank in most real-life and other Trek rank systems, although Sloan wore a possible FCAPT insignia in DS9)


lieut insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
lieut insig
not seen on Pike in
"The Menagerie"


lieut insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig
lieut insig

Colonel
(conjecture, rank exists in Star Trek VI)
Captain
("The Corbomite Maneuver")

lieut insig
lieut jg insig
lieut insig

Kirk's
wraparound tunic

lieut insig
lieut jg insig
lieut insig
Kirk
"The Corbomite Maneuver"


lieut insig
lieut jg insig
lieut insig

not seen on Krasnovsky
"Court-Martial"


lieut insig
lieut jg insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut jg insig
lieut insig

Commander
("The Corbomite Maneuver"; Spock and Finney were both Lt. Cmdrs. wearing Cmdr. rank insignia -- and McCoy and Scotty wore CMDR braids in TAS although they may or may not have been promoted by then.)

lieut insig
lieut insig


lieut insig
lieut insig

Finney
"Court-Martial"

lieut insig
lieut insig

Spock
"The Corbomite Maneuver"

lieut insig
lieut insig

lieut insig
lieut insig

not seen on Hansen
"Balance of Terror"
Lieutenant colonel
(conjecture)
Lieutenant commander
("The Corbomite Maneuver")

lieut jg insig
lieut insig


lieut jg insig
lieut insig

Lang
"Arena"



lieut jg insig
lieut insig

McCoy
"The Corbomite Maneuver"


lieut jg insig
lieut insig

Scott
"The Corbomite Maneuver"


lieut jg insig
lieut insig

Major
(conjecture
, rank exists in ENT MACOs)
Lieutenant
("The Corbomite Maneuver")

lieut insig


lieut insig

Sulu
"The Corbomite Maneuver"


lieut insig


lieut insig

Uhura
"The Corbomite Maneuver"


lieut insig

Captain lieutenant
(conjecture, USAF Capt. Christopher wore this equivalent rank insignia on a borrowed uniform "Tomorrow is Yesterday")
Lieutenant junior grade
("The Naked Time"; after this many lieutenant JGs had no insignia at all for some reason, even though they were called "lieutenant" not "ensign")

lieut jg insig


lieut jg insig


lieut jg insig

Tormolen
"The Naked Time"

lieut jg insig
not seen on McGivers
"Space Seed"


lieut jg insig
not seen on Harold
"Arena"
1st lieutenant
(conjecture)
Ensign
("The Corbomite Maneuver")

gold
assignment patch


gold assignment patch
Chekov
"Catspaw"

gold assignment patch gold assignment patch gold assignment patch 2nd lieutenant
(conjecture)
students
(omitted from some service regular duty wear)
gray uniform - all divisions
("Shore Leave")
students
Midshipman
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook, rank mentioned in TOS)


midshipman insig


3rd lieutenant
(conjecture based on Starship Troopers)
Cadet
(FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook
, rank mentioned in TOS)

wo insig

Cadet
(conjecture)
noncommissioned personnel
(omitted from some service regular duty wear)
command
division
sciences
division
operations
division
noncommissioned equivalents
Chief warrant officer
(FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook; warrant ranks were never mentioned in Trek except for TNG's Kosinski's odd insignia)

cwo insig


cwo insig


cwo insig


cwo insig


cwo insig

Chief warrant officer
(conjecture)
Warrant officer
(FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)

wo insig


wo insig


wo insig


wo insig


wo insig

Warrant officer
(conjecture)
Master chief petty officer
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook, rank exists in Star Trek IV)

mcpo insig

mcpo insig mcpo insig mcpo insig mcpo insig Sergeants
(conjecture, rank exists in ENT MACOs)
Senior chief petty officer
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook, rank exists in DS9)

scpo insig

scpo insig scpo insig scpo insig scpo insig
Chief petty officer
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook, rank mentioned in "Mirror, Mirror")
cpo insig
cpo insig cpo insig cpo insig cpo insig
Petty officer 1st class
(FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)

po1 insig


po1 insig


po1 insig


po1 insig


po1 insig

Petty officer 2nd class
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)

po2 insig



po2 insig



po2 insig



po2 insig


po2 insig

Petty officer 3rd class
(Lawton, "Charlie X")



crew1 insig


crew1 insig


crew1 insig

crew1 insig


crew1 insig


Crewman 1st class
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)
Corporal
(conjecture
, rank exists in ENT MACOs)
Crewman 2nd class
(FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)

crew2 insig


crew2 insig


crew2 insig


crew2 insig

crew2 insig Privates
(conjecture
, rank exists in ENT MACOs)
Crewman recruit
(insignia: FASA Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook)

no division insignia in assignment patch


no division insignia in assignment patch


no
division insignia in assignment patch


no
division insignia in assignment patch


no
division insignia in assignment patch


(uniform notes)
according to FASA
Cadet's Orientation Sourcebook enlisted ranks are worn on the shoulder although no corresponding insignia appeared in TOS on enlisted personnel mentioned to hold those ranks.

Kirk was the only officer to wear the green  version command uniform. one version had the rank braids across the shoulder rather than the sleeve
*
A green jumpsuit was worn by Connors "Mudd's Women"
*
A female skirt variant of Kirk's jacket was seen in WildStorm comic "All of Me"
*
A commodore wore a  variant of this in an "Early Voyages" comic









Although these uniforms were operations division in the previous uniform style, some "newer" beige ops uniforms were seen, without rank insignia or with outdated rank insignia, throughout TOS
*
This includes Charlie X's beige version of Kirk's green jacket



 

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