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Concerning admiral ranks, it would make no sense to have no "single star" admirals (commodores/rear admirals [lower half]/whatever), since it would leave a hole in the command structure that the ranks represent. If there were no admirals of that rank, though, the other ranks wouldn't "move down" in their insignia, since then the system wouldn't work either (I mean, you could, but it would cause confusion).
Again, the reason we haven't seen any commodores is probably because they're out commanding flotillas and such, and we rarely see a small group of ships together.
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But Frank, we haven't even heard the term "commodore" mentioned in passing for 12 years! TPTB have repeated many times that it's fallen out of use by the TNG era, and therefore the writers don't use it, ever.
One could theorize the one-pip flag pin was used by commodores from the introduction of rank pips in '48 or so until the phasing out of the rank (and the pip) several years later.
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Who's to say it's not around now due to the DW? Makes sense that they'd have commodores commanding small groups of ships for hit-and-run raids against Dominion supply bases, etc.
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