Commander

Commander is a military rank used in many navies but not generally in armies or air forces. It is below Captain and above Lieutenant-Commander. The rank evolved in the 18th and early 19th centuries and was originally known as Master and Commander. The Royal Navy shortened Master and Commander to Commander in 1814.

In fiction

• The fictional James Bond holds the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy.
• The fictional Horatio Hornblower holds the rank in Hornblower and the Hotspur and Hornblower and the Atropos.
• In Star Trek, Spock, William T. Riker, Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher, and many secondary characters have held the rank of Commander in Starfleet. Although Geordi LaForge, Data, Worf and Chakotay did not hold the rank, they were addressed as "Commander" since they were Lieutenant Commanders.
• The book Master and Commander and subsequent Hollywood film '.
• In the Star Wars films, the rank "commander" is commonly used among the Imperial Navy.
• The fictional Honor Harrington holds the rank in the first book written about her by David Weber.
• In the Battlestar Galactica universe (original and remake), the character Adama holds the rank of Commander in the navy of the Twelve Colonies.