Vice admiral

Vice admiral (also known as three star admiral) is a rank of flag officer in naval services and space forces, most notably Earth Starfleet and its Federation counterpart. Vice admiral is the midlevel flag officer rank, a grade higher than a rear admiral and a grade below four star admiral and other admiral grades in most rank structures. This rank is roughly equivalent with the authority of a lieutenant general of military forces.

In military parlance, is it acceptable and normal to refer to a vice admiral simply as "admiral" in most forms of address.

In the Starfleet uniform insignia introduced in the mid-24th century, a vice admiral wore a triangular rank braid with two pips underneath as their service uniform rank insignia. (TNG episode: "Conspiracy")

The correlation between this third admiral rank and the uniform insignia worn in TNG season 1 is because other admirals were shown wearing lower rank insignia, and the single braid insignia was the most basic one shown.

In a redesign of the admiral's service uniforms of 2365 and 2366, a new insignia of three gold pips enclosed in a rectangular gold border was worn by vice admirals, showing the origin of the "three star" name. This insignia continued into later uniform designs of the 2370s. (ST reference: Star Trek Encyclopedia; TNG episode: "The Measure of a Man")

Positions and lists

United States Navy

• David Farragut (19th century)

Earth Starfleet

• Maxwell Forrest (2150s)

Federation Starfleet

• Aaron (2360s)
• Matthew Dougherty
• Fitzpatrick
• Jeremiah Hayes
• Kathryn Janeway
• Yuri Kuznetsov
• James Leyton
• Mamoru Nakamura
• Alynna Nechayev (2360s)
• Owen Paris
• Richardson
• Vaughan Rittenhouse
• William Ross
• Srrel
• Zach Warner

Appendices

Connections

	Enlisted ranks				Commissioned ranks							Flag ranks Template:Starfleet Ranks

Background

US insignia.

The United States rank scheme that Starfleet was adapted from is also the origination of the insignia, background information, and alternate name for this rank. In the United States armed forces, vice admirals of the US Navy wear a pin insignia of three stars on their uniforms and hold an officer grade equivalent to a lieutenant general of other services.

External links

• Vice admiral article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Vice admiral article at Star Trek Expanded Universe wiki, the wiki for fan-authored Star Trek.