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this wiki     Enterprise NCC-1701-operations division insignia
Operations insignia from Enterprise     In an alternate future,
Lt. Gaines wears operations gold      The operations division
was the corps of officers and crewmen within Starfleet who
specialized in services and military functions on starbases,
aboard starships, and at Starfleet Command. Members of the
operations division may have specialized in a ship or base
service, administration, or military operations, or served as
staff officers. Operations officers included engineers, security
and tactical, and some service specializations such as
communications. Operations division personnel also filled
administrative posts as yeomen, personnel officers, and
portmasters. By the 24th century, this division had new postings
established on ships, such as operations officers (or chief of
operations).      The operations division, command division, and
sciences division were usually denoted by