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personnel or not ?[]

Mark Lenard (Commander), Gretchen Lui and all admirals seen in Star Trek (2009), can they be input "starfleet academy personnel" (23rd century section) ? C-IMZADI-4 12:50, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Superintendent/commandant[]

Do we know that "superintendent" and "commandant" refer to the same position? In "Coming of Age", Quinn offers Picard the post of "Commandant of Starfleet Academy". In "The First Duty", Adm. Brand is called "superintendent", and Picard and Riker recollect past superintendents. Neither Hahn nor the Bolian admiral in DS9: "Paradise Lost" has a title given in dialogue; I don't know whether the latter's position is stated in the script. It's certainly possible that the two terms are equivalent, but couldn't it also be possible that, perhaps, the commandant is in charge of the Academy as a whole, and the superintendent in charge of student discipline? Should we remove the note saying the two are synonyms? —Josiah Rowe (talk) 19:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

The Bolian was the Commandant.
Also, according to Wikipedia: "The commandant is the second most senior officer (after the superintendent) of United States Service academies, such as West Point, United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy, equivalent to the Dean of Students at a civilian college." I'd dare say the same should apply here. –Gvsualan (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

That makes sense. I've removed the note (and also removed Hahn from superintendent, which I think was a similar assumption, conflating any Academy admiral into the same position). —Josiah Rowe (talk) 20:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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