So, who´s the best Star Trek captain?

[Caesar the Great]

7 of 9

[rah]

Don't forget the captain from the original pilot.

Captain C. Pike.

[joseph1944]

James T Kirk
Jean-Luc Picard
Benjamin Sisko
Katherine Janeway
Jonathan Archer

I voted for Kirk because I grew up with him. I was 23 years old when the show started. He would have a lot more votes if most of you were my age.

Picard a close second, and I mean close.

Sisko and Janeway are both very good in my world.

Archer is doing OK but needs to win a few fights.

I understand how hard it is to watch a show of today and then try to compared it with a show of 1967/68/69. That is 35 years ago.

Maybe Archer is the show that was going to be made in 1972/3 but was never made.

[Az]

The Emissary of the prophets

and Baldy comes close second in my list.

[Faboba]

I grew up with the Next Gen. Only Picard will ever personify, to me, what Star Trek is supposed to be about. I guess I'd have felt the same about Kirk had I been that vintage.

As for the others, Sisko is a warmonger, Janeway is the victim of a series devoid of soul and Archer.... well.... Enterprise has too many continuity errors for me to even consider Archer to be part of the Star Trek Universe. I prefer to think of Enterprise as being part of the Babylon 5 franchise.

[Apocalypse]

Enterprise lumped with B5? Are you crazy?

[Saint Marcus]

Maybe Archer is the show that was going to be made in 1972/3 but was never made.

No, the lost series have nothing to do with Enterprise. some scripts and ideas have been used in star trek movies, and The Next Generation though (like the ep in which Troy got pregnant).

[Rogan Josh]

My wife make me vote for Janeway

[Zoid]

Originally posted by 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.

He was? I must have missed that episode...

[Ming]

Originally posted by DarthVeda And DS9 was a flagrant rip-off of B5. But also good.

Both shows were under development at the same time.
Fortunately, B5 did it better

[Zoid]

I also grew up with Kirk.... OK, I´m not THAT old They aired TOS in swedish TV in the late ´70s. (Alongside 'Space:1999' ) But still, Picard is one of the few human characters in ST that has some real substance. The human characters in ST are often 2-dimensional characters that doesn´t leave a lasting impression If you made a top 10 list of interesting characters in ST Picard would be the only human.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Ming


Both shows were under development at the same time.
Fortunately, B5 did it better

Yes they did. The main reason why B5 is better IMO is because it had a clearly defined storyline, beginning and end. It´s basically one long story divided into little pieces. This also allows for a better and more free handling of the various characters.

ST sucks bigtime in this department. Nothing truly surprising really happens here...

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Enterprise lumped with B5? Are you crazy?

I think I'll be proven correct when the last series is total and complete crap.

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Ming


Both shows were under development at the same time.
Fortunately, B5 did it better

Wow.... so Ming can be wrong. You heard it here first folks

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
I also grew up with Kirk.... OK, I´m not THAT old They aired TOS in swedish TV in the late ´70s. (Alongside 'Space:1999' ) But still, Picard is one of the few human characters in ST that has some real substance. The human characters in ST are often 2-dimensional characters that doesn´t leave a lasting impression If you made a top 10 list of interesting characters in ST Picard would be the only human.

I must agree fully- Kirk was a one note guy, any bad guy worth a damn would easily be able to lure him into a trap just by keeping in mind he is such a macho guy- no finess. Picard did recite Shakespeare, but was no wimp (the whole intellectua=pansy thing just never dies).

I must say that the whole 2 dimensional thing goes for ST alien species too- which is why B5 was better: all the races had a rich culture and many contradictions and internal conflicts, things races in ST lack utterly. The only race that got any worthwhile treatment were the Bajorians, due to DS9's format.