Starfleet Admirals' ship?

Firstly Admirals usually lose their starships and get desk jobs however there are some exceptions when james t kirk was an admiral he got back the command of the enterprise however in star trek generations Kirk told jean luc picard not to accept promotion so he could remain in command of the enterprise and in a similar vein michael eddington told benjamin sisko that people join star fleet to be captains not admirals when they discussed eddington ambitions.And on the question aboutthe chain of command a star fleet officer of a rank less than captain who commands a star ship is refered to as captain maybe the same is true for those of a higher rank

I'm fairly sure that an Admiral gets a Desk at Starfleet HQ or at a Starbase to go with the promotion,and only gets on a ship again on a special assignment..James T.Kirk may have been an exception,as they couldn't keep him at a desk Kirk ends up getting demoted from Admiral in the Movie series,and was as a result happy to be able to get "back" to command of a ship again...

That is actually a good question and if I remember correctly admirals in star trek ended up on a desk job lol. I have seen some episodes where the admiral would ride a different ship and there was a captain aboard. Gee I need to research that and pay more attention to star trek.

Well you got some really good answers here before I stumbled onto this discussion. I was going to say that for the most part when a captain got promoted to admiral it mostly involved a desk job. That is the main reason Kirk fought that promotion so long. He only got his ship back after being promoted because there was an emergency that required his expertise. Keep on trekkin.

from what I know, Admirals will have to give up their ships as being promoted to the admiralty means more important duties. If an admiral needs to go somewhere, they usually just 'catch a ride' with any available starship. We do however know that some admirals have their own starship (Nechayev had the USS Crazy Horse and later the USS Sovereign) but they are under command of a captain. The admiral is not going to keephimself busy with running a ship In the event where an admiral is in command of a fleet (admiral Hanson at the Battle of Wolf 359) we can assume that the admiral (with his command staff) ,while in command of the entire fleet,is not present on the bridge of the ship but rather in a secondary command center where he can oversee and command the whole fleet rather then be in the way of the captain of the ship who needs to put his full attention on commanding the ship

Yeah I think promotion to admiral is pretty much like going from delivery boy to bookkeeper. Although they have had admirals in charge to show success in episodes that deal with time travel, like the one where Picard kept changing time periods and Riker was admiral yet still in command of the Enterprise. (I think he was an admiral).

Quite often, an admiral relinguishes command of his or her starship to another captain (or new commanding officer). That new captain can either be the First Officer, maybe a even new captain assigned to take command of the ship. If we're talking about the various incarnations of Star Trek, Kirk was somewhat of an exception to the rule, because in all those first four movies, he was an admital in command of the Enterprise. Supposedly (Not sure how true this was) before the time that The Motion Picture takes place in, it was Captain Spock who was in command of the Enterprise for two five-year missions. In The Next Generation, Captain Picard turned down promotions to admiral, because he wanted to remain going out in space, & not confined to mere desk duty. I believe that there have been at least two or more offers that he turned down.