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{{Update Academy}}A '''[[Communications]] officer''' was a [[specialist|special]] [[crew]]member crewmember found aboard both [[Earth]] and [[Federation]] [[Star Fleet]] [[starship|ships]] and , [[space station]]sand [[Earth]] postings. The "comm " [[officer]] was is considered an [[Engineering]] position, and is responsible for managing all incoming and outgoing transmissions.

The position was unique in that it could be being manned by [[officer]]s from three major divisions of starship personal, progressing from science in the [[22nd century]] to command and later to [[operations Officer|operations]] in [[23rd century]].  Starships of the mid to late [[24th century]] did not have a [[bridge]] position of [[communications]] officer, although the post continued to exist. On the bridge of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}}Communications officers are required to have a specialty in "Operations." Usually, additional training in communications technology, linguistics, the and cross cultural communications is required.        [[tactical officercategory:positions]] doubled as communications officer, as did occasionally the [[operations officercategory:personnel]]. The {{USS|Voyager}}'s bridge also had a similar division of responsibility.