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Whose the best capatin? Why?

In this order:
Sisko - For being the Samuel L Jackson of captains. Deliberate, tactful, diplomatic, and will punch you in the face!
Picard - For all of the above except the last. Being old and British and generally awesome.
Janeway - She was kind of all over the place. She went from being cold and distant to being friendly and personable with the whole crew all the time. She did get things done though.
Kirk - Because someone has to come in last.

I haven't seen Enterprise so I can't say. anything about that captain.

Definitely Picard. He's intelligent, diplomatic, tough when he needs to be, and cultured. And extremely sexy!

"Star rek" are you insulting our beloved sci-fi series? Just kidding!

Picard - he was the Kirk of my generation
Cisco - blend between Kirk's kick-ass diplomacy and Picard's pure diplomacy
Kirk - classic icon
Archer - whatever it took to get the job done
Janeway - never liked this one.

The Captains

A maverick like Kirk probably couldn't make it in the 24th century. As Spock himself once said, "It is easier for civilized men to act like barbarians than it is for barbarians to act like civilized men."

The unnamed Romulan captain from Star Trek/TOS "Balance of Terror" (1966), as portrayed by Mark Lenard.

I'd say it's a tie between Kirk and Picard.

Sisko and Archer were OK. Janeway definitely wasn't.

Picard....he was awesome!

Sisko was pretty good too.

Didn't care for Janeway, but then again the only really interesting character to me in Voyager was the doctor.

Kirk annoyed me with both his mannerisms & speech. Of course when I was a kid I really liked him a lot, but Spock has always been a fave of mine...even as time wore on.

Didn't watch Enterprise. My ex kind of killed my interest in all things ST.

Sisko was my favorite for combining Picard's formality and charisma with Kirk's "cowboy diplomacy." Plus, he seemed prone to error, like a lot of DS9's characters.

Kirk and Picard were both good.

Janeway was good in earlier episodes, but I didn't like her attitude when they met Seven of Nine.

Picard is definitely my favorite captain, followed closely by Janeway and Sisko. I never liked Kirk or Archer. This is weird, because my favorite series is the original.

Q: You punched me in the nose! Picard would never have punched me in the nose!

SISKO: I'm not Picard.

In descending order:

Benjamin Sisko: Strong, confident, refused to take being the Emissary of the Prophets too seriously, and cooked jambalaya aboard a distant space station in the 24th century.

James Kirk: Often imitated, never duplicated, nailed every alien chick they ever found except one (the unnamed Romulan commander from "The Enterprise Incident" - she had the hots for Spock).

Jean-Luc Picard: Had the guts to keep his bald head (come on, they could cure cancer as an outpatient visit and had a medication to cure nearsightedness - do you really buy that they couldn't cure baldness?), could have nailed every chick they ever found but chose not to. Marked down for his reluctance to engage in violence, even when it was obviously called for, and for his misapplication of the Prime Directive (which forbids interference in pre-starfaring civilizations - this does not describe the Klingon Empire).

Kathryn Janeway: Managed to integrate the Maquis, self-conscious rebels against the Federation, into her crew, and looked better than any other Starfleet captain in a tight tank-top while carrying a compression phaser rifle and a bandolier of stun grenades. Marked down for refusing to take the Caretaker up on his offer to 'port them home in the first episode, and for abandoning other promising technologies (for instance, sure, the slipstream drive was a gimmick, and would only work for a couple of hours at a time - but in those couple of hours, they traveled farther than in days of high warp. Why not use the slipstream for a few hours, then use warp drive until the slipstream was available again?).

Jonathan "Asshat" Archer: The weakest of the captains, he never did overcome his basic xenophobia, could never remember the various lessons he learned from one week to the next, almost started an interstellar war because he didn't want to apologize for his dog piddling on someone's sacred tree (and why was his dog along on a first-contact mission anyway?), and, in the end, blew off any mourning for the stupid death of his closest friend in order to go make a self-aggrandizing speech at the founding of the Federation. (Come on, even I was able to write a better death scene for Trip than that last epi had, and even included a funeral scene - and the whole thing would have taken maybe an extra two minutes of screen time! Cut the bit with T'Pol fiddling with Archer's tie before the speech, and you've got plenty of time...)

James T. Kirk - every time I think of Kirk I think of those What Would Jesus Do bumper stickers. only What Would Kirk Do would always have the same answer (punch him in the face). reminds me of Roger Moore when he played James Bond. lots of style but not a lot of substance.

Jean Luc Picard - first off, let's get something out of the way. i know Picard was supposed to be French, despite being played by a British actor. but for god's sake! Picard drank tea and enjoyed Shakespeare! he was freaking British. lots of substance and when the time was right could show you he had style.

Benjamin Sisko - had the toughness of Kirk and the intelligence and sensitivity of Picard. i think the most well rounded captains of the show.

Kathryn Janeway - because the writing is so inconsistent on Voyager the character is inconsistent as well. so at best i'd refer to Janeway as schizophrenic. i will say though that she's had to make some of the toughest decisions in the world of Voyager. if only they had bigger pay-offs, for the character and for the audience.

Jonathan Archer - don't get me started...

What about Data?