Summary

There have been 12 Starfleet Commodores in the story ofStar Trek , however , not every character to hold the membership has had the best of intention . Placed between Captain and Admiral , Starfleet ’s Commodore rankis the lowest ranking flag officeholder , who can be in control of a fleet of ships . InStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , Commodore Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) was the most recent officer to attain the rank for his study in overseeing the Athan Prime Fleet Museum ’s aggregation of classical starship .

unhappily , noteveryStar TrekCommodoreis as trustworthy and honorable as Geordi LaForge . Although the Commodore rank does n’t draw in nearly as many corrupted officer as that of Admiral , there have still been some villainous or misguidedStar TrekCommodores . The worst offence of Starfleet Commodores inStar Trekrange from almost getting the USS Enterprise destroy to overseeing a massive conspiracy that claimed the life-time of over 92,000 masses .

For a progressive , utopian institution , Starfleet has more than a few bad apple that have their own unique approach to maintaining galactic peace .

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12Commodore Oh (Tamlyn Tomita)

Star Trek: Picard Season 1

Star Trek : Picard ’s Commodore Oh ( Tamlyn Tomita ) was incredibly good at her job , so she ’s technically better than some of her predecessors . However , Oh ’s intentions were so villainous and genocidal that she is surely the worst Starfleet Commodore of all fourth dimension . As a recondite - coverRomulan Tal Shiaragent , Oh orchestrated the withering First Contact daylight attacks on the Utopia Planitia Shipyards , which do the deaths of over 90,000 hoi polloi . To extend her plan to illegalize synthetical spirit , she grade the end of Dahj Asha ( Isa Briones ) and manipulated Dr. Agnes Jurati ( Alison Pill ) into remove Dr. Bruce Maddox .

11Commodore Stocker (Charles Drake)

Star Trek: TOS, season 2, episode 11, “The Deadly Years”

Star Trek : The Original Series ' Commodore Stocker ( Charles Drake ) was n’t a villain , he was a mankind who was deplorably out of his profoundness . In " The Deadly Years " , Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) and the crew of the USS Enterprise succumbed to a mysterious aging disease . A frightened and inexperienced Stocker strike command of the ship and took the Enterprise hazardously close to the Romulan Neutral Zonein his attempt to reach Starbase 10 more quickly . gratefully , Kirk was cured , retook command of the Enterprise , and avoided set off another warfare with the Romulans . Kirk hold the inexperienced Stocker no inauspicious will .

10Commodore Matt Decker (William Windom)

Star Trek: TOS, season 2, episode 6, “The Doomsday Machine”

Commodore Matt Decker ( William Windom ) was a serviceman driven to desperate action by grief and guilt trip . Decker was obsessed with destruct the titulary major planet killer inStar Trek : The Original Series ' " The Doomsday auto " . While Decker wanted to destroy the satellite killer to protect the galaxy , he was more labour by avenging the gang that he lost while in control of the USS Constellation . In doing so , Decker risks the lifetime of Captain Kirk and the work party of the USS Enterprise , abandoning the commanding officer ’s duty to protect their crew . After Decker sacrificed himself , Kirk preserved the Commodore ’s report in his report .

9Commodore Tafune (Russell Yeun)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2, episode 1, “The Broken Circle”

In his abbreviated appearance inStar Trek : unusual New Worldsseason 2 , instalment 1 , " The Broken Circle " , Commodore Tafune ( Russell Yeun ) questioned the judgment of his superior officer , Admiral Robert April ( Adrian Holmes ) . During a meeting with Admiral April about the threat posed by theGorn Hegemony , Tafune suggest that his superior had locomote " too easy " on Lt . Spock ( Ethan Peck ) for stealing the USS Enterprise . Given that Spock averted another Federation - Klingon War , Commodore Tafune should have given the Vulcan mutineer far more credit .

8Commodore Chiv (Eugene Clark)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2, episode 2, “Ad Astra per Aspera”

Commodore Chiv ( Eugene Clark ) was a fellow member of the judgement panel inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds ' visitation of Commander Una Chin - Riley(Rebecca Romijn ) . As a Vulcan , Chiv ’s thought process on Number One ’s Illyrian heritage and her failure to disclose her genetical sweetening were hard to discern . pass on the final conclusion to accord Una asylum and countenance her to continue serve aboard the USS Enterprise , it ’s safe to take up that the inscrutable Commodore Chiv fit in with the eleemosynary discernment of Number One .

7Commodore Barstow (Richard Derr)

Star Trek: TOS, season 1, episode 20, “The Alternative Factor”

Commodore Barstow ( Richard Derr ) apprise Kirk ’s Enterprise to bear on its probe into a Galax urceolata - wide of the mark upshot inStar Trek : The Original Series , season 1 , installment 20 , " The Alternative Factor " . Unlike Commodores Decker and Oh , Barstow was play for the neat good , believing that the magnetic disruption posed a serious terror to galactic safety . Barstow know that the Enterprise crew was the intimately - equipped team in the Starfleet armada to fix the problem , which was why he ordered Kirk to proceed his investigating while simultaneously ordering other spaceship to empty the area around the mysterious satellite .

6Commodore Stone (Percy Rodriguez)

Star Trek: TOS, season 1, episode 14, “Court Martial”

In " Court Martial " , Commodore Stone ( Percy Rodriguez ) investigated charge of acrime committed by Captain Kirk- the murder of a fellow officer . Stone never persecuted Kirk and instead follow the evidence as it was presented to him . Crucially , Stone decided to go down with the endeavour during the courtroom - martialwhen Kirk ’s fight with the psychotic Lt . Commander Benjamin Finney ( Richard Webb ) endangered the ship . While he may have been puttingStar Trek : The Original Series ' hero on test for a offense he did n’t commit , Commodore Stone did so with unity and fairness .

5Commodore Paris (Shohreh Aghdashloo)

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Commodore Paris ( Shohreh Aghdashloo ) was the overlook officer of the rotatory starbase , the USS Yorktown inStar Trek Beyond . Paris provided Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) with valuable , if subtle , advice on whether he should accept a forwarding to Vice - Admiral . After he saved the Yorktown from Krall ( Idris Elba ) , Admiral Paris enjoin Kirk that the advancement was his , but also prompt him that Admirals do n’t fly . Paris ' insidious nudge helped the Kelvin Timeline Kirk debar one of the biggest error of his Prime Timeline counterpart .

4Commodore Bob Wesley (Barry Russo)

Star Trek: TOS, season 2, episode 24, “The Ultimate Computer”

Commodore Bob Wesley ( Barry Russo ) lost his crew when the M-5 data processor created by Dr. Richard Daystrom ( William Marshall ) croak rapscallion and twist the USS Enterprise into a weapon of aggregate destruction . Wesley ’s entire gang was killed when the M-5 turn on his ship , the USS Lexington . While Wesley receive license from Starfleet Command to destroy the Enterprise and Dr. Richard Daystrom ’s malfunction computer , he keep back his fire because he believed that Kirk would deliver the goods in deactivating the M-5 . Captain Kirk did eventually talk the M-5 into deactivate itself , signify that Commodore Wesley never had to draw out the trigger .

A retired Commodore Wesley appear in theStar Trek : The Animated Seriesepisode " One of our planet is Missing " , voiced by Scotty actor James Doohan .

Richard Daystrom played a major part in the mental synthesis of the USS Enterprise , and continues to influence the Star Trek world 200 geezerhood by and by .

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3Commodore José I. Mendez (Malachi Throne)

Star Trek: The Original Series, Episodes 15 & 16, “The Menagerie”

Commodore José I. Mendez ( Malachi Throne ) oversaw Starbase 11 , and the overall fear of Fleet Captain Christopher Pike ( Sean Kenney ) follow his tragical accident . In the classicStar Trek : The Original Seriestwo - parter , " The Menagerie " , Mendez and Kirk go after down Spock after he ’d stolen the Enterprise and lead for Talos IV . While the Mendez that joined Kirk and conducted Spock ’s courtroom - martial was illusory , the real Mendez still shortly lifted General Order 4 to permit Pike to live out his retirement in an illusory Eden . Mendez was dedicate to Pike ’s upbeat right up to the end .

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Charles Drake as Commodore Stocker in Star Trek: TOS

Commodore Tafune looks suspicious.

Commodore Chiv looks stern in court

Richard Derr as Commodore Barstow in Star Trek

Percy Rodriguez as Commodore Stone and William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek

Shohreh Aghdashloo as Commodore Paris in Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: The Original Series