CO of command cruiser questions

Wolverin61 · Post by **Wolverin61** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:25 pm

Would the commanding officer of a command cruiser be a captain or a commodore? What about a squadron of two or three CAs and a CC? Would the commodore be the captain of the CC as well or would it have a separate captain with the commodore calling the shots from the flag bridge?

semperatis · Post by **semperatis** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:02 pm

In general,it would be a fleet captain that commanded the CC. Under normal circumstances,a Commodore,who is responsible for the whole sector,would normally be stationed at either a Base Station or Starbase,and would normally never be in command of a starship,except in extraordinary circumstances. If he was on board,then he would issue orders from the Flag Bridge,though even this would be a rare occurance,as a Commodore is an administration rank rather than a combat one,and even then,the ships captain still has the final say in a tactical combat situation.

Ravenhull · Post by **Ravenhull** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:07 pm

I think also that if an adhoc fleet were put together, the senior most captain (which is likely the one on a CC) would be designated Commodore for that group, though his duties would only change mildly.

For the Admirals, they have a captain on their ship who handles the 'day to day' ship operations and they work out of the Flag Bridge during combat. An exception is the Klingons who put even the highest ranked Admiral in the fleet in the captain's chair of the ship he is in.

Post by **Steve Cole** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:53 pm

Uh... WRONG

It would normally be a commodore, but he doesn't command the ship, he's just a passenger. The ship has its own captain. (Except for the Klingons, where a deputy captain does admin and the commodore commands the squadron and the ship).

Fleet Captain is a bizarre thing.
It was mentioned once in Trek and not explained. The real explanation was that a "fleet captain" is simply a guy of rank O6 who is on a fleet staff and not the captain of a ship.
We decided that wasn't cool enough and said that the "fleet captain" was the highest ranking O6 in a numbered fleet and that the admiral commanding the fleet might use him for anything (chief of staff, inspector general, squadron commander) at his discretion.