Comments?

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"Everything I needed to learn in life I learned from Optimus Prime."

Rule #3 : Whenever someone under you screws up make sure you teach them a lesson more so than you punish them.

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"A Star Wars picture that preaches against greed is a little like Bill Clinton in the pulpit for a chastity-begins-at-home campaign."

There seem to have been alot of changes in position over the course of the war. First it started out like this, during "A Time to Stand":

Sisko is just captain of the Defiant

Martok is just captain of the Rottaren

Ross is some type of important commander. Could he be the suprememe commander of the ill-fated 7th fleet?

Over the course of the season 6 war arc, we saw sisko move to some more important position as one of ross' advisors.

By "You are Cordially Invited," the station has been retaken. At this point....

Sisko is just captain of the defiant and DS9

Martok is supreme commander of the 9th fleet

Ross disappears....Maybe he has gone back to starbase 375 to continue to command the 7th fleet, or some other force.

It seems it stays pretty much that way until "Tears of the prophets":

Sisko is named commander of the invasion of cardassia.

Martok is still commander of the 9th fleet.

Ross reappears before the battle, but then disappears.....It seems possible that more than one fleet was used in the invasion of chin'toka. Maybe Ross' 7th fleet (back to at least half strenght as metnioned in some other obscure episode) also participates in the invasion, but perhaps ross himself stays behind.

After this point Ross appears on the station several more times, such as in "Take me out to the Holosuite." Maybe by this point the 7th fleet also operates out of DS9, along with the 9th.

Ross' importance changes by "The Emeperor's New Cloak." In this episode, Martok mentions he'll ask Gorwron for more ships, and Sisko says he'll ask admiral ross for more ships. I believe it is possible that by this time Ross has been placed in charge of all federation forces fighting in the dominion war.

Overtime, i believe things start to change. Because by the 7th season arc, Martok is mentiones by Gorwron to have been commanding the entire klingon war effort. Perhaps by this point martok was put in command of all klingon forces operating in the dominion war.

So, by the time of the finale, things stand as follows:

Sisko is still in command of the invasion of cardassia. This includes commanding the battle of carddassia prime.

Martok, now channcelor, is in command of all klingon forces.

Ross is in command of all federation forces fighting in the dominion war.

Thoughts?

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"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?"- Jean-Luc Picard

"Fortune Favors the Bold."- Benjamin Sisko

"And so, the warriors, the peacemakers, the helpers, the saviors, the forgotten, and the remembered, they all signed on that data padd and peace was made."- Shannon London-Karkarsku, leader of the Unisist Movement

Captain Alex Herenwhiner,
Transwarp inter-dimension timeship explorer U.S.S. Liberty

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"Everything I needed to learn in life I learned from Optimus Prime."

Rule #3 : Whenever someone under you screws up make sure you teach them a lesson more so than you punish them.

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Got Trek?

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"How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?"- Jean-Luc Picard

"Fortune Favors the Bold."- Benjamin Sisko

"And so, the warriors, the peacemakers, the helpers, the saviors, the forgotten, and the remembered, they all signed on that data padd and peace was made."- Shannon London-Karkarsku, leader of the Unisist Movement

Captain Alex Herenwhiner,
Transwarp inter-dimension timeship explorer U.S.S. Liberty

The TNG-era rank system for admirals is as follows:

[l] (Not in use, could have been Commodore once upon a time)

[ll] Rear Admiral

[lll] Vice Admiral

[llll] Admiral

I would appear that Fleet Admiral is not a rank but more of a position by the TNG era. (Nechayev was a Vice Adm. in CoC and had the usual 3 pips but was referred to as Fleet Admiral in The Search 2 and had the same number of pips... it's unlikely she jumped two ranks in two and a half years as well as wore the same number of pips. And Fleet Adm. Shanthi had 3 pips in Redemption 2). I like to think of it as analagous to Staff Sergeant in a Police Detachment... a rotating chief-of-staff position amongst those of Sergeant rank. Presumably the Federation is carved up into Starfleet operations regions and each one has one a rotating order for Fleet Admiral's post for that region.

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"A Star Wars picture that preaches against greed is a little like Bill Clinton in the pulpit for a chastity-begins-at-home campaign."

-Rex Murphy on Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

The one-pip rank (Commodore/RA [lower half]) is certainly in use...those admirals would probably be in command of small flotillas and such.

"Fleet Admiral" (AKA Admiral of the Fleet) is normally the highest admiral rank, although the title could also be informally be applied to an admiral of lower rank in command of a fleet. Vice-Admirals do this in the US, and could very well act in the same capacity in Starfleet.

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"A Star Wars picture that preaches against greed is a little like Bill Clinton in the pulpit for a chastity-begins-at-home campaign."