Klingon Defense Force

• Military of the Klingon Empire
• Officers
  • Officer rank structure, highest to lowest:
    • General
    • Captain
    • Commander
    • Lieutenant
• Enlisted
  • Enlisted rank structure, highest to lowest:
    • Bekk
• Commander of the military holds the title of Fleet Admiral with the rank of General
  • By examples of Krell and Martok
• Standard uniform consists of warrior's traditional armor, shoulder-length hair
  • All members required to carry mek'leth, disruptor
  • During their existence, QuchHa' were barred from wearing standard Klingon Defense Force uniform, in order to better distinguish them from HemQuch (ENT Novel: Live by the Code; TOS)
• Vessels have devoted weapons officers
  • Weapons officer leads division; general equivalent of Starfleet chief tactical officer (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: The Edge of the Sword)
    • Underlings junior weapons officers (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: The Edge of the Sword)