Starfleet captains
"Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way, but the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want."
In the history of Starfleet, many officers held the rank of captain or held the title of captain while commanding starships.
According to Travis Mayweather, Matthew Ryan spent more time in space than most Starfleet Captains. (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
List of prime reality captains[]
Senior captains[]
Starfleet flag officers sometimes retained or took command of a vessel. Most often, these officers held the rank of commodore, but there were instances of admirals operating as starship captains.
Captains[]
The substantive rank of captain was typically held by officers captaining starships. Officers of this rank also sometimes served in other capacities, such as in command of starbases or divisions of support personnel (such as JAG officers or members of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers), or as members of experimental engineering programs.
22nd century[]
- Brody (Saratoga)
- Duvall (Shenandoah)
- Gardner (NX Program)
- Jefferies, W.M. (NX Program)
- Jennings (Republic)
- Shumar, Bryce (USS Essex)
- Stiles (Earth-Romulan War)
- Stillwell
23rd century[]
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- Becker, M. (Instructor; Communications, STC, Starfleet Academy)
- Garrovick (USS Farragut)
- Graffeo, C. (Instructor; Beam Technology, STC, Starfleet Academy)
- Harris (USS Excalibur)
- Lorca, Gabriel (USS Buran)
- Maltese, D. (Instructor; Beam Technology, STC, Starfleet Academy)
- Maranville, Steven (USS Yeager)
- Uhura, Nyota (USS Leondegrance)
- Xon (STC, Starfleet Academy)
24th century[]
- Adams, Douglas (USS Heart of Gold)
- Aguayo, Monico C.
- Amasov (USS Endeavour)
- Annon, Jeffery Joal (USS Sherlock Holmes)
- Arakaki, Jimmy (USS Mustang)
- Arnold, Richard (Warp Technologies Development Group)
- Arrat, Itzak (USS Ticonderoga)
- Bennet (Seventh Tactical Wing)
- Blackwood (USS Tombaugh)
- Bligh, W. (USS G'Mat)
- Braga, Brannon (Flight instructor, Starfleet Academy)
- Braswell, Elizabeth S.
- Brownfield, Dick (USS Atlantis; Fleet Yards Operations)
- Cameron, Roy
- Carson, David (Fleet Yards Operations)
- Chalmers, Chip (Fleet Yards Operations)
- Chamberlin, Mandy (Research & Development)
- Chess, Joe (Advanced Technologies Group)
- Clark, Margaret C.
- Conklin (USS Magellan)
- Curry, Daniel (Warp Technologies Development Group, Starfleet Operations)
- Darson (USS Adelphi)
- Dean, Doug (Orbital Operations)
- Dieghan, Drew (USS Intrepid)
- Diego (Diego's starship)
- Drexler, Douglas (USS Mare Tranquillitatis and Science Ops)
- Dwyer, John M. (Engineering Group)
- Edwell
- Entebe (USS Ulysses)
- Fleck, Jerry (Flight Ops Officer, Starfleet Academy)
- Friedman, Layne (USS Albert Einstein)
- Fries, Sandy (USS Non Sequitur)
- Furen, Bryan D. (USS Aleo)
- Genovese, Cosmo (USS Endeavour)
- Giddings, Diana (USS Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Gifford, K.L. (USS Min'ow)
- Gleason (USS Zhukov)
- Goldberg, Seth (USS Callisto)
- Grumby, Jonas (USS Minnow)
- Gump, J. (USS Hispaniola)
- Hammond, Asenath (USS Max Plank)
- Hansen, Kurt S.
- Hunnicutt, B.J. (Starfleet Operational Support Services)
- Hutzel, Gary (Warp Technologies Development Group)
- Jacobson, Phillip
- James, Richard (USS Constantinople; Engineering Corps)
- Jameson, Mark (USS Gettysburg)
- Jedlicka, Martin (USS Saratoga)
- Jein, Gregory (Yard Engineer)
- Kobayashi, Alan (USS Tycho)
- Laporin (Laporin's starship)
- Legato, Robert (USS Matte Fringe and Warp Technologies Development Group)
- Leyton (USS Okinawa)
- Lin, Michael J. (USS Gremlin)
- Livingston, David (Wing commander, Starfleet Academy)
- Loomis (AR-558)
- Lopez
- Mann, Maria (USS Endeavour)
- McCoullough
- McKenzie, Richard (USS Yamato; Engineering Corps)
- Mees, Jim (Engineering Group)
- Miles, Tod (USS John F. Kennedy)
- Moore, Ronald B. (Warp Technologies Development Group)
- Narth (USS Ajax)
- Nesterowicz, John (Starfleet Academy)
- Neuss, Wendy (Warp Technologies Development Group)
- Oja, Darryl (USS Ganymede)
- Paris, Owen (USS Al-Batani)
- Park, Jana (USS Atlantis)
- Peets, Bill (Stellar Imaging Division)
- Peterson (USS Carolina)
- Pierce, Benjamin Franklin (USS James Fenimore Cooper)
- Pressman, Erik (USS Pegasus)
- Priestly, J. (USS Gallico)
- Probert, Andrew (Engineering Corps)
- Ramirez (USS Valiant)
- Raymer (USS Destiny)
- Raymond (USS Tecumseh)
- Reynolds
- Reynolds, Charlie (USS Centaur)
- Richardson
- Rush, Marvin (Stellar Imaging Division, Research and Development)
- Rubenstein, Louis (USS Constellation)
- Shelby (USS Sutherland)
- Simmons, Adele (USS Bushwacker)
- Smutko, Alex (USS Excalibur)
- Sordal, Bob (Orbital Operations)
- Stadius
- Stein, G. Harry (USS White Sands)
- Sternbach, Rick (USS Tranquillity Base)
- Stone, Jason (USS Strata)
- Sulu
- Swift, J. (USS Yosemite)
- Swofford, Quentin (USS Cortez)
- Thomas, Cari L. (USS Puget Sound and USS Farouk El-Baz; Engineering Corps)
- Trimble, Lora (USS Equicon)
- van de Ven, Mary (USS Elmer Fudd)
- Veneziano, Sandy (USS Omaha Nebraska)
- Wong, Leslie (USS Cairo)
- White, Dana (Yard Engineer)
- Yacobian, Brad (Fleet Ops)
- Zimbata (USS Victory)
- Zimmerman, Herman (USS Nightwing and USS Yorktown)
25th century[]
29th century[]
31st century[]
32nd century[]
33rd century[]
Junior captains[]
According to the rules of naval parlance, a person of any officer rank could be addressed as captain if they were assigned as sole commanding officer of any starship. Captains could also have been awarded provisional (brevet) ranks or field promotions to be accorded the title of captain.
- Lieutenant Commander Piersall (USS Prometheus)
Unnamed captains[]
Saratoga captain (2286)
- Chakotay's first captain
- USS Enterprise-B launch spectator, 2293 (Star Trek Generations)
- USS Defiant captain (TOS: "The Tholian Web"; ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")
- USS Jenolan captain (TNG: "Relics")
- USS Lalo captain (TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris")
- USS Saratoga captain (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
- USS Saratoga captain (DS9: "Emissary")
- Starfleet Command aide-de-camp (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
- Starfleet Command briefing attendee (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
- Transport captain commanded the starship that transported Benjamin and Jake Sisko to Deep Space 9 in 2369. (DS9: "Emissary")
- USS Venture captain (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
- Yar's commanding officer (TNG: "Legacy")
- 32nd century captains
List of alternate reality captains[]
Senior captain[]
Starfleet flag officers sometimes retained or took command of a vessel.
Captains[]
The substantive rank of captain was typically held by officers captaining starships. Officers of this rank also sometimes served in other capacities, such as members of experimental engineering programs.
Junior captains[]
According to the rules of naval parlance, a person of any officer rank could be addressed as captain if they were assigned as sole commanding officer of any starship. Captains may have also been awarded field promotions to be accorded the title of captain.
Unnamed captains[]
- Daystrom Conference Room meeting attendee (Star Trek Into Darkness)
- Starfleet Headquarters secret meeting attendee (Star Trek Into Darkness)
- Yellowstone-class presentation female (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
- Yellowstone-class presentation male (VOY: "Non Sequitur")
List of mirror universe captains[]
Captains[]
De facto captain (not recognized by the Terran Empire)[]
Unnamed captain[]
List of parallel universe captains[]
A list of captains seen in alternate timelines and parallel universes:
Senior captain[]
In at least one parallel universe, Starfleet flag officers sometimes retained or took command of a vessel.
Captains[]
- Halloway, Thomas (USS Enterprise-D) (TNG: "Tapestry")
- Tuvix (USS Voyager-A) (TNG: "Cracked Mirror")