“ The way STO is set out for the most part it's assumed that you are the only character in the game and therefore it makes sense for there to be one "hero" fleet admiral.
Team content is not really considered a part of the ongoing story; more a sort of side aspect of the game in that regard so it... ”
“ Also because it is made as a role playing game but the role you play doesn’t add up to realism. It is too bad that they arranged that like this.
Just going to admiral and no further looks like more like it as I have read in many canon stories you have to count over more then 5000-10000 starships... ”
“ This. We know that the post of "CinC Starfleet" existed at least as far back as Star Trek VI, and what @Petrarch said here is pretty much why I'm giving all my toons the "four star" badge as max rank even if they are 65. ”
“ It's possible to have multiple Fleet Admirals (this occurred back in in World War 2 as a real life example) but only 1 would be designated as the Head of Service overall (a bit like Vance or Clancy in Discovery/Picard, who are stated to be the Commander in Chief of Starfleet) - you may get one who... ”
“ I was trying to figure out how this is possible.
I have seen every Star Trek series and movie, read a lot of Star Trek novels and I also looked up everything there is about starfleet ranks on google, memory alpha, … but I still don’t understand how it is possible to hold the rank of a fleet... ”