Division

A Division is an organisational unit that provides the building blocks of a Command. Each Division covers a sub-set of a Command's subject matter. It is not necessarily an indicator of the size of the unit, however, as a matter of principal, a Division will be larger than the average Department and smaller than the average Command.

A Division will typically consist of a number of Departments, which in turn cover more specialised areas. As an example, the Starfleet Engineering Command contains a Field Repair Division, a Field Construction Division, and a Deep Space Division. The Field Repair Division then contains a Starbase Repair Department, and an Underway Department, while the Field Construction Division contains an Earth-Moving Department, an Architectural Department, an Assembly Department, a Pre-Fabrication Department, and a Safety Directorate. In this way, you can see how specialisations move further down the chain, while Divisions are not necessarily equivalent in size to each other. Rather they each serve similarly broad subject-matter cover.

Almost all Divisions are led by a Director, who is assisted by an Assistant Director. A Director of a Division will typically be a Commodore, with the Assistant Director being either a Captain or Commander. There are a few exceptions, which largely revolve around Divisions equipped with Starships, such as the Deep Space Division of Starfleet Engineering.

In Starfleet Academy, the equivalent organisational unit is a School, of which the Academy consists of several. Here and there are other exceptions to this naming system, typically originating in specific historical artefacts.