We somehow forgot the Yeoman of the Bowmen!
Yeah, but that was just screwing with the guys at the O-club. His promotion to Lt was, while not strictly legit, accompanied by real papers and a change in duties.
She was Warrant Officer in the first two, never saw the third, and I distinctly remember someone calling her a lieutenant in the fourth.
Are there any fictional characters with the rank of field marshal, commodore, or generalissimo?
Commodore Grimes, from A. Bertram Chandler’s Rim Worlds books. There are various Commodores in David Weber’s Honorverse books as well. Also, there’s Commodore Decker from The Doomsday Machine in ST : TOS.
That reminds me of “Whom Gods Destroy” – the insane Garth had been a “fleet captain,” a rank (or functional title, it’s not clear) apparently higher than captain but lower than commodore; also, a rank/title I’ve never heard of in any real-life navy, nor in any other ST episode.
The rank/functional title of commodore in the U.S. Navy has a complicated history.
The U.S. Army has never had any field marshals.
Generalissimo seems to be a rank/title used mostly, but not exclusively, by dictators.
Found a wiki article on fleet captain. Apparently it’s never been a rank, only a title, and usually a temporary, mission-limited title.
But we had the rank of General of the Army which is equivalent to Field Marshal. Supposedly this was because George Marshall did not want to be known as “Marshal Marshall”.
Jack Aubrey was a commodore on at least two occasions. Commodore is a rank far lower than field marshal or generalissimo. A commodore is an officer other than an admiral given command of a fleet of ships. Usually it’s a senior captain (Post-Captian in Aubrey’s case) given a small task force.
Wolf Larsen was the (civilian) captain of a schooner in Jack London’s novel, The Sea Wolf.
There were a number of commodores in ST:TOS. By the time of TNG, as in the U.S. Navy by that time IRL, the rank was either abolished or no longer used.
And Pike was a Fleet Captain by the time of TOS “The Menagerie,” as well.
What?!? No John Carter? What list of fictional characters and their ranks would be complete without this gentleman?
I know there was a commodore in Pirates of The Carribean, becasue I distinctly recall Jack saying it. Not sure who he was talking to. Norrington?
Yes, Norrington was a commodore in the Royal Navy. OTOH, Cap’n Jack discussed Barbossa presenting himself as “commodore” due to having two ships potentially under his flag. (OTTH, Jack was setting up Barbossa. Great scene, that one.)
In addition to starting the show as a Major, she was also briefly commissioned as a Commander in Starfleet.
If you read under the ‘profile’ section, you see that where it says “General Major Webelo”, the Webelo links to the article on Cub Scouts.
Right, right. I think when Jack’s got Keira Knightly held hostage, and he’s getting Norrington to hander over effects, he refers to him as “Commmodore…”
Since you’re asking, he was a captain (CSA, Virginia) on Earth/Jasoom, and the Warlord on Mars/Barsoom.
Warlord apparently being equivalent to a shogun in feudal Japan.
Ulysses Paxton.
In Robin Williams’ Popeye movie, Popeye’s Pappy was “the Commodore” (the nature of his claim to the title being unspecified).
Anthony Rogers:
It’s been too long since I read the book, and I don’t remember. The comic-strip version, Buck Rogers, was a Captain. (Military, not Naval. I have in my possession a picture of Captain Rogers and Lieutenant Deering, and they are depicted wearing U.S.-style rank insignia. She wears one bar, he wears two.)
Steve Austin:
Colonel, in the book; Lieutenant Colonel in the TV show.