IMO, one of the fundamental differences between Starfleet and today's military is that there really isn't a serious focus on rank. It's there, sure enough, but what a person does is more important than the amount of braid on their sleeves.
In a funny kind of way, it's in keeping with Roddenberry's original idea of in "The Cage" where rank is just a title...
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