Star Trek, who was the better captian?

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14 Jan 2012, 6:23 pm

That's right, I'm bringing up that debate. Who was the better captain? James Tiberius Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Katherine Janeway, or Jonathan Archer?

Personally, my vote is for Katherine. Of all of them, she had the largest amount of bad luck thrown at her. Under the same conditions, Kirk would have blown up the ship to prevent the Borg from assimilating it. Picard would have had a flashback, snapped, and charged the ship into a Borg cube. Sisko would would have started talking to the voices in his head. And Archer would have hid in the nearest nebula.

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14 Jan 2012, 6:32 pm

I went with Sisko, because DS9 was my favorite Star Trek series.

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14 Jan 2012, 8:04 pm

Picard is my favourite, but Kirk is almost as good. He has probably raised his fists more than Picard, but his Shakespearean words of wisdom(even though I know diddly squat about Shakespeare) are pretty awesome. I should also mention that Deep Space Nine is probably my favourite Star Trek show even though that I like the first 2 captains more than Sisko who is also really cool.

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15 Jan 2012, 1:10 am

For me it is Picard, in part because I grew up watching TNG. But also because he is a cultured warrior.

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15 Jan 2012, 2:37 am

Picard ! ! only one that survived being assimilated by the Borg. :!:

Kirk managed to not contract a STD

Janeway got lost in the delta quadrant

Archer, well he had a dog

Sisko ran a truck stop

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15 Jan 2012, 2:44 am

you left out christopher pike.

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15 Jan 2012, 1:03 pm

auntblabby wrote:

you left out christopher pike.

Wasn't he an admiral?

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15 Jan 2012, 4:33 pm

auntblabby wrote

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you left out christopher pike.

This is for the captains of their own tv shows. Five shows, five captains.

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15 Jan 2012, 5:27 pm

tb86 wrote:

auntblabby wrote

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you left out christopher pike.

This is for the captains of their own tv shows. Five shows, five captains.

well, he WOULDA had his own show if his silly wife hadn't henpecked him into turning it down. :hmph:

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16 Jan 2012, 6:13 am

Picard's my personal fave. But if we're going on overall effectiveness, I gotta go with Sisko. Dude ran an entire station, fought a major war, captained a warship, and served as an important religious figure for an entire race.

All that and he raised a son on top of it.

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16 Jan 2012, 8:30 am

Ben Sisko...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YyL7X4CWw[/youtube]

The man is ruthless.

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16 Jan 2012, 1:14 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZMkSy6-jR8[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niWu7JsSAyc&feature=related[/youtube]

And as for ruthlessness. You ain't seen nothing until you've gotten between Janeway and her coffee!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0NnpJb0NwY[/youtube]

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16 Jan 2012, 2:10 pm

gadge wrote:

Picard ! ! only one that survived being assimilated by the Borg. :!:

Capt. Janeway was assimilated in the "Unimatrix Zero" two-parter - admittedly one of the absurder plots on "Voyager".

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16 Jan 2012, 2:11 pm

Icheb wrote:

gadge wrote:

Picard ! ! only one that survived being assimilated by the Borg. :!:

Capt. Janeway was assimilated in the "Unimatrix Zero" two-parter - admittedly one of the absurder plots on "Voyager".

*Cough, tribles, cough*

Oh, and lets not forget Dr. Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise. He was partially assimilated.

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