Starfleet Uniforms & Insignia

Updated 19 January, 2019


The current Starfleet uniform consists of a black tunic with quilted grey shoulders, and a 1cm wide branch colour stripe on the wrist. The tunic is worn with matching black trousers and black ankle-height boots. A high-collared branch colour pullover is worn under the tunic. Branch colours are red for Command, gold for Operations and blue for Sciences. All personnel within a department wear the branch colour of the parent branch.

Uniforms


Variants include a black and grey vest to be worn in place of the tunic, and a one-piece black jumpsuit with grey shoulders favoured by many female officers. Other specialised uniform items are available, including cold-weather, desert and athletic wear. Some of the uniform options and variants in current service are shown below. All uniforms are shown in Command branch colours unless otherwise specified.

Duty
Tunic
Duty
Vest
Duty
Shirtsleeves
Duty
Female
Duty
Skirt
Pregnancy
Smock
Duty
Flag
Dress
Uniform
Mess Dress
Flag
Mess Dress
Captain's
Mess Dress
Skirt
Mess Dress
Officers
Mess Dress
CPOs
Mess Dress
Ratings
HQ Duty
Uniform
Captain's
Casual
Captain's
Shirtsleeves
Academy
Cadet
Security
Armour
Battledress
Uniform
Utility
Fatigues
Medical
Smock
Surgical
Scrubs
Engineering
Coverall
Uniform
Undershirt
Athletic
Sweatsuit
Athletic
Tee Shirt
Gymnastic
Sweats
Flight
Display
Stealth
Suit
Desert
Robes
Arctic
Clothing
Hologram
Stealth Suit
Interface
Suit
Pressure
Suit


The Starfleet insignia is incorporated into the combadge and is worn on the left breast.

Combadge


Rank insignia is worn on the right collar of the pullover.

Officers wear a series of gold and gold-rimmed black pips. Fleet captains (captains who have been given command of a squadron, task force or administrative department with other captains subordinate to them) wear a gold bar beneath their pips. Flag ranks wear smaller gold pips surrounded by a gold rectangle.

Ratings wear an embroidered patch with a series of diagonal stripes. Petty officers wear an embroidered patch with a series of chevrons. Chief petty officers and above wear an embroidered patch with three chevrons and a series of pips in duty uniforms, and a single gold-rimmed black pip in dress uniforms.

Provisional rank insignia is worn by non-Starfleet personnel who have been been attached to a Starfleet unit in an officer capacity, and is worn with Starfleet uniforms. Members of other armed forces attached to Starfleet units usually wear their own rank insignia, and often wear their own service uniforms.

Cadets at Starfleet Academy wear a series of vertical silver bars denoting their academic year. Fourth year cadets serving on their cadet cruise are addressed as midshipmen.

Officers
Ratings
Provisional
Ensign
Crewman 3rd Class
Chief Petty Officer
Lieutenant (junior grade)
Crewman 2nd Class
Ensign
Lieutenant
Crewman 1st Class
Lieutenant (junior grade)
Lieutenant Commander
Petty Officer 3rd Class
Lieutenant
Commander
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Lieutenant Commander
Captain
Petty Officer 1st Class
Commander
Fleet Captain
Chief Petty Officer
Captain
Commodore
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Starfleet Academy
Rear Admiral
Master Chief Petty Officer
First Year Cadet
Vice Admiral
Chief Petty Officers (dress)
Second Year Cadet
Admiral    
Third Year Cadet
Fleet Admiral    
Fourth Year Cadet


All Starfleet personnel are issued a unique identification card. This card has a small holographic image of the bearer and identifies the bearer by name, rank and branch. In addition, the card contains an isolinear memory chip with the bearer's medical records and career documents and encrypted identity codes.

(Card design adapted from Morrow Project ID cards by Brannon W. Boren.
Brannon's original
Morrow Project cards were found at his web site, now sadly defunct.
Design used by permission.)

This page ©2002, 2019 Owen E. Oulton
Thanks to "Captain Daniel Hunter," Volker Maiwald, Daniel Stack, "Modem" and Daniel Angulo for their help in pointing out uniforms I'd missed or got wrong.