So, who´s the best Star Trek captain?

[Carver]

SISKO

Sisko takes number one because DS9 was the most creative of the Star Trek series, also the most B5-like I might add.

B5 was so much better because it was more realistic and more creative at the same time. Actually, I think it was B5's realism which forced it to be more creative. In Star Trek all the races basically look the same, just with funny looking faces. B5 has different races with entirely different biological makeups. Witness the Vorlons or the Shadows, other species requireing encounter suites, and my favorites, the beings from Thirdspace . That was a cool movie with a cool premise.

In ST they all have basically the same ships, warp drive, phasers.. yada yada. In B5 they push the creative envelope, which I like.

[Guynemer]

Picard was the best captain, but DS9 was the best show.

[Ramo]

The Sisco!

[Jon Miller]

Re: SISKO

Originally posted by Carver
Sisko takes number one because DS9 was the most creative of the Star Trek series, also the most B5-like I might add.

B5 was so much better because it was more realistic and more creative at the same time. Actually, I think it was B5's realism which forced it to be more creative. In Star Trek all the races basically look the same, just with funny looking faces. B5 has different races with entirely different biological makeups. Witness the Vorlons or the Shadows, other species requireing encounter suites, and my favorites, the beings from Thirdspace . That was a cool movie with a cool premise.

In ST they all have basically the same ships, warp drive, phasers.. yada yada. In B5 they push the creative envelope, which I like.

thats because DS9 ripped babylon 5 off

and did it lousily too

Jon Miller(or so I have been told)

[Lorizael]

One word:

Engage!

And yes, woohoo, someone else knows about Red Dwarf! Best show ever! Hilarious. Sadly, I think I've seen all of the episodes a few times too many.

[Pythagoras]

Originally posted by Carver


Holy phasers Pythagoras, I think you're right.

Kirk and JFK both have a youthful energy about them, looking for new things to explore.

Archer and Little Bush both have that down home, Texas barbeque, cattle herding attitude.

Sisko and Janeway did come around when Clinton was telling us to "don't stop thinking about trommorow".

And Picard reminds me of Big Bush. They both have a simple resoluteness about them. If you think about some of Bush's statements on Iraq during the Gulf War, I could easily see Picard saying the same lines.

Archer gives speeches just like Bush, somewhat akward (from bad acting) moralizing. Then there's the suliban or whatever

[Apocalypse]

Many people here know about Red Dwarf.

Ever watch the Smeg Ups (Or was it the Outs?) with Picard talking about how he was thinking of suing Grant Naylor?

[Lorizael]

And then he laughed, and put down the phone.

My favorite part is when someone asks what smeg means.

[Apocalypse]

That was hilarious.

I didn't know what smeg was the first time I saw it. I heard of smegma. Never put two and two together until reading this one story with a character that was nicknamed "Smegs" though.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
2 questions:

1) what else is known about species 8472?

2) what else is known about Borg creation? I remember reading about them being created several million years ago by this one creature, but it's all blury in my memory now

2 answers (sort of)

1) http://www.startrek.com/library/xeno.asp?ID=119943

2) The origin of the Borg is not known AFAIK. However, Q "introduced" the Borg to Enterprise D at stardate 42761. Maybe that´s what you´re thinking of?

[DarthVeda]

I think Janeway made a decent captain once the writing got a lot better in the fourth season and she lost that horrid bun hairstyle.

And DS9 was a flagrant rip-off of B5. But also good.

[Boris Godunov]

Ben Sisko, while not technically a captain, wins my vote, hands down. He rocked.

Of course, I dislike all ST except DS9, so he was the only obvious choice...

[Chris 62]

Kirk is the man.

Picard was such a wuss he couldn't even take Soren, and ended up getting Kirk killed and his ship destroyed by a half-assed bird of prey.

Sisco was OK if somewhat preachy, Archer is so-so, Janeway was annoying.

BTW, Data also qualifies as captain, as seen in "Redemption PartII".

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Lorizael

And yes, woohoo, someone else knows about Red Dwarf! Best show ever! Hilarious. Sadly, I think I've seen all of the episodes a few times too many.

Same here, I´ve got all the episodes on VHS. They´re almost worn out by now. My sister likes them as well, between ourselves we must´ve seen every episode a gazillion times

[Apocalypse]

Seriously, don't you think Hollister is extremely cunning? I mean, he was originally a donut boy and was able to make his way up to Captain.