Captain (military)

US captain insignia.

Bajoran captain insignia.

Captain is an military rank in a number of historical military organizations, including infantry. In organizations that use infantry ranks, a captain is ranked between a first lieutenant and a major, and in line service would command a company. This military rank is usually quite equivalent to the naval and space service rank of full lieutenant, but across alien systems there are some alternate uses. The Romulan language rank erei'riov is called subcommander, but is considered equivalent to captain or naval lieutenant commander. (TOS - Rihannsu novel: The Romulan Way)

This rank of captain was used in three branches of the United States of America's armed forces—specifically the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. It was later used by United Earth's Military Assault Command Operations, the Federation's Starfleet Marines, and the Bajoran Militia. (TOS episode & Star Trek 2 novelization: Tomorrow is Yesterday, TNG episode & novelization: Encounter at Farpoint, DS9 episode: "Little Green Men", VOY episode: "The Killing Game", ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia, DS9 - Worlds of DS9 novel: Bajor: Fragments and Omens)

In his first encounters with the crew of the Federation starship USS Enterprise in the year 2364, one of the guises adopted by Q was that of a 20th century captain in the United States Marines Corps. (TNG novel: Encounter at Farpoint; TNG comic: "Q Factor")

Positions and Lists

Bajoran Militia

• Jaza Najem

United States Army

• James Wainwright

United States Air Force

• John Christopher

Starfleet Marine Corps

• Joachim Hartzer

Appendices

Connections

	Enlisted ranks				Commissioned ranks							Flag ranks
Earth SF	CREW	PO2 PO1		CPO SCPO MCPO	ENS	LT		CMDR		CAPT FCAPT VICE CDORE		CDORE	RADM / 2ADM	VADM / 3ADM	4ADM	FADM / 5ADM GADM
Starfleet & SFMC					ENS JG ENS ENS 1C	LT JG	LT	LT CMDR	CDR			CDORE 1ADM
	PVT	CPL	SGT MASTER SGT		SUBLT 2ND LT	1ST LT	CAPT	MAJOR	LT COL	COL		BRIG	GEN
MACO	Pvt	Cpl	SGT MASTER SGT		2Lt	1Lt	Cpt	Maj	LtCol	Col		Gen
US military (& US Navy)	PVT	CPL	SGT MASTER SGT		2ND LT	1ST LT	CAPT	MAJ	LT COL	COL		BRIG GEN	MAJ GEN	LT GEN	GEN
	CREW	PO		CPO SCPO MCPO	ENS	LT JG	LT	LT CMDR	CMDR	CAPT		RADM LH	RADM UH	VADM	ADM	FADM
Bajoran	DEPUTY, TECH	CPL	SGT		ENS	LT JG LT	CAPT	MAJ	FIELD COL		COL	GEN
Klingon Defense Force naval & marine	ENL (bekk)	PO/LDR (DevwI') CPO/TROOP LDR (QaS-DevwI')			ENS (lagh)	LT JG	LT (Sogh)	LT CMDR	CMDR (la')	CAPT (HoD)		CDORE (totlh)	ADM ('aj)			FADM
	ENL (mang) 2C ENL (mang) 1C LCPL	CPL (Da')	SGT (bu') SGT MAJ		LT JG	LT (Sogh)	CAPT	MAJ	LT COL	COL		BRIG ('ech)	MAJ GEN	GEN (Sa')

External links

• Captain (military) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Captain (armed forces) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.