Demotion

A Demotion is a punitive reduction in a person's rank. A member of the United Federation of Planets Starfleet can be reduced in rank for serious violation of laws or regulations.
Lieutenant Tina Campanelli was demoted to the rank of Lieutenant Jr. Grade in 2375 for disobeying the orders on a disastrous mission of Vorkon II that caused the lives of six of her Away Teammates and five of the civilians and sentenced to thirty days in the brig. Tina spent two years attempting to put the memory of the incident behind her until she attended counseling to learn how to deal with it. Two years later, at the end of 2376, Campanelli was reinstated as a lieutenant, and took an oath not to lose her rank again, showing that she learned her lesson after the Vorkon incident.
After the destruction of the , Captain Timothy Watters stripped the five surviving Equinox officers of their commissions. ()