The command division is the corps of officers within Starfleet who specialize in command and control functions on starbases, aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command. Members of the command division are trained in leadership and have tactical training allowing them to decisively take action in organizing and mobilizing Starfleet crews to perform missions. Command officers include most all of the admiralty, captains, executives, adjutants, pilots and flight controller (or helmsman). Command division personnel also fill posts as tactical officers and sometimes in ordnance departments.

Officers who belong to the command division sometimes wear the division color of another department which they specialize in, if said command officer were to become a security chief, engineer, or command a science department.

In the Earth's Starfleet of the 2140s and 2150s, line officers of command division wore gold division stripes on their uniforms.

Gold was still the color of the command division throughout the 2250s and 2260s, worn by line officers and flag officers of this division. Officers in the command division wore a five-pointed star with a lengthened upper point as an insignia on their assignment patch.

By the 2270s, new uniforms showed different division colors, the command division was signified by white backing their Starfleet badge, and also on uniform bands and epaulettes. This continued onto the 2280s uniforms, and the insignia used gave the officer the option of wearing command division white uniform insignia, with another department color banded across, or the opposite, with department color insignia with command white banded across.

By the uniforms used from 2350s onward, red had become the command division color, and this has continued through several uniform styles.

Individuals from several possible futures, and some that have been proven to be alternate timelines have continued to wear red when in the command division, but by the 29th century, several timelines have the command color switched to blue.

Known Officers in this Department:

Captain Johnathan Archer (Commanding Officer USS Enterprise NX-01)
Captain James T. Kirk (Commanding Officer USS Enterprise NCC-1701 to NCC-1701-B
Commander Spock (Executive Officer USS Enterprise NCC-1701 to NCC-1701-B)
Captain Rachel Garett (Commanding Officer USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Commanding Officer USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and NCC-1701-E)
Commander William T. Riker (Executive Officer USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and NCC-1701-E)
Captain Benjamin Sisko (Commanding Officer Deep Space Nine)
Colonel Kira Nerys (Executive Officer Deep Space Nine)
Captain Kathryn Janeway (Commanding Officer USS Voyager NCC-74656)
Lieutenant Commander Chakotay (Executive Officer USS Voyager NCC-74656)