Corporal was a rank grade within many different organizations. This rank falls below sergeant and above private in military and infantry forces. There are sometimes multiple grades of corporals, including lance corporal.
The Klingon Defense Force has been known to employ a rank, Da', which means "corporal" in translation to Federation Standard. (ST reference: The Klingon Dictionary)
This rank existed within the MACO forces of the United Earth, the MACO forces of the Terran Empire, and the Bajoran Militia. This rank has also been awarded to members of the Starfleet Ground Attack Marines. (Star Trek: Enterprise; ENT episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly"; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; TNG novel: The Forgotten War)
In 2268, the rank existed in the Ekosian SS. A SS corporal was guarding the Ekosian Chancellery when Daras arrived to listen to a speech from John Gill. (TOS episode & Star Trek 12 novelization: Patterns of Force)
In the year 2251, Leonard McCoy met a cadet whose military bearing did not impress the young medic. In order to parody the young man's demeanor, McCoy twice referred to Cadet James T. Kirk as "corporal", once as "Corporal Goose-Step", referring to a Nazi style of marching. Both Cadet Kirk and Ensign Spock corrected McCoy's facetious mistake. (TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: Cadet Kirk)
Before she was discommended for euthanising near-dead soldiers during a civil war in the Orion Nebula, the field medic Nymira Vondect was a corporal within the Orion Infantry. When she later became a crewmember onboard the USS Defiant, Vondect revealed her rank to the other teammates while offering them her full name, claiming to have earned her stripes, just as the rest had with their respective positions. This claim attracted disbelief from Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, who aired scepticism to the idea that her Orion colleague was a military veteran, but the medic retorted that she worked for a living as a non-commissioned officer. (DFT - Another Piece of the Action comic: "Part 2")
Corporals
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- World War I-era Germany
- Erich Kilheffer (c. 1974)
- Don Abrams
- Doris Atkins
- Askwith
- Akiko Karuna
- Martha Landon
- Keiko Tamura
- Zahra
- Costa
- O'Malley
- Selma Guitierrez
- Matthew Kelly
- David McCammon
- J. Fiona McKenzie
- Hossad Mottaki
- R. Ryan
- John Sheehan
- D. Hideaki Chang
- Nelson Kemper
- Meredith Peruzzi
- Amanda Cole
- F. Hawkins
- M. Romero
- Madden
- B. Scott
- Orion Infantry
- Ozalorian
- Mitoe
Connections
| Enlisted ranks | Commissioned ranks | Flag ranks | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACO | Pvt | Cpl | SGT
|
2Lt | 1Lt | Cpt | Maj | LtCol | Col | Gen | ||||||
| US military (& US Navy) |
PVT | CPL | SGT
|
2ND LT | 1ST LT | CAPT | MAJ | LT COL | COL | BRIG GEN | MAJ GEN | LT GEN | GEN | |||
| CREW | PO | CPO
|
ENS | LT JG | LT | LT CMDR | CMDR | CAPT | RADM LH | RADM UH | VADM | ADM | FADM | |||
| Earth SF | CREW | PO2
|
CPO
|
ENS | LT | CMDR | CAPT
|
CDORE | RADM / 2ADM | VADM / 3ADM | 4ADM | FADM / 5ADM
| ||||
| Starfleet & SFMC | ENS JG
|
LT JG | LT | LT CMDR | CDR | CDORE
| ||||||||||
| PVT | CPL | SGT
|
SUBLT
|
1ST LT | CAPT | MAJOR | LT COL | COL | BRIG | GEN | ||||||
| Klingon Defense Force naval & marine |
ENL (bekk) | PO/LDR (DevwI')
|
ENS (lagh) | LT JG | LT (Sogh) | LT CMDR | CMDR (la') | CAPT (HoD) | CDORE (totlh) | ADM ('aj) | FADM | |||||
| ENL (mang) 2C
ENL (mang) 1C LCPL |
CPL (Da') | SGT (bu')
SGT MAJ |
LT JG | LT (Sogh) | CAPT | MAJ | LT COL | COL | BRIG ('ech) | MAJ GEN | GEN (Sa') | |||||
| Bajoran | DEPUTY, TECH | CPL | SGT | ENS | LT JG
|
CAPT | MAJ | FIELD COL | COL | GEN | ||||||
External links
- Corporal article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Corporal article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.