Best Star Trek captain
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Picard.
Archer was really good though. Janeway was just too short sighted.
Kirk, well....he was too stupid. I love Kirk, but c'mon! Picard had tactics, knowledge, command presence, cunning, etc, that were light years ahead of Kirk. The guy knows how to properly handle his command to the FULL. But we have to look to more than just the tv shows to learn about these characters. Some of those shows were just badly written.
At least the books are more well thought out and give us a MUCH better idea to the abilities of each Captain.
So if I were to go by the books, I would say Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is the best captain. He is from the New Frontier novels penned by Peter David. By far the most entertaining Captain. Crazy, absolutely crazy.
Archer was really good though. Janeway was just too short sighted.
Kirk, well....he was too stupid. I love Kirk, but c'mon! Picard had tactics, knowledge, command presence, cunning, etc, that were light years ahead of Kirk. The guy knows how to properly handle his command to the FULL. But we have to look to more than just the tv shows to learn about these characters. Some of those shows were just badly written.
At least the books are more well thought out and give us a MUCH better idea to the abilities of each Captain.
So if I were to go by the books, I would say Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is the best captain. He is from the New Frontier novels penned by Peter David. By far the most entertaining Captain. Crazy, absolutely crazy.
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WalksWithChrist
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Archer fought off the Borg with the Star Trek equivalent of a Gremlin.Godfixated said:
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The only problem with that is that I don't understand how Archer fought the Borg whether it was in the future or not, when the first contact with the borg by humans was in TNG.WalksWithChrist said:Archer fought off the Borg with the Star Trek equivalent of a Gremlin.
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Tigress_86
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Picard was the best captain. I have no reason as to why except that he was captain on the best Star Trek series to date. Sorry to all the fans of Kirk and the original Star Trek, but I've never been much of a fan. I'd say the only cool thing to come out of the original, besides TNG, was Spock.
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WalksWithChrist
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That's the beauty of the Trek timeline being so screwed up! It was the wreckage of the Borg Sphere from First Contact that turned up on Enterprise.Godfixated said:
I figured out pretty quick that Enterprise never stuck to any set timeline very closely...for better or for worse.
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WalksWithChrist
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Yeah! Spock has always been my favorite. And don't forget...*Captain* Spock rescued Kirk in VI!! And he basically figured out the whole plot against the Federation in what I think is one of the most chilling scenes in all of Star Trek. When he does that mind meld with Lt. Valeris...gives me the willies every time!Tigress_86 said:
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Tigress_86 said:
I don't know if Picard could do as well on a Constellation class starship with limited speed, no holo deck, no transporter filters with limited beaming, smaller bridge with no office and no Riker to send on away missions. Also no Data or Deanna. Picard had alot of help. Kirk used "Cowboy diplomacy."
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WalksWithChrist said:Yeee haaa!!!
Westerns were big in the 60's. TOS even had a Billy the Kid western style episode and a 30's style Capone mobster episode on alien planets not on the Enterprise in a holo deck. Kirk's Capone accent was better than Picard's Private dick accent.
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Picard - Patric Stewart's great, understated acting added a whole lot of quality to Next Generation.
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heh heh I never quite bought Picard as Dixon Hill.Pointman7 said:
He did fairly well at it tho still. He is a phenomenal actor.
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WalksWithChrist said:Ditto for Data.
Data really grow into this part and got better and better. Riker also got better but only after the beard, new uniforms, and two-part Borg event.
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Yahweh Nissi said:
Just for the record though...Patrick Stewart was born to play the role of Xavier in the X-men series.....
but he's still a great captain!!
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I wasn't crazy about this movie but the acting was incredible.wanderphilos said:Just for the record though...Patrick Stewart was born to play the role of Xavier in the X-men series.....
but he's still a great captain!!
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