Favorite Star Trek Captain?

**SephirothDZX** · 03-19-2013, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by MRMIRACLE

Oh no. Allegedly, Roddenberry's first pick for the role was the very hairy Gabriel Macht. Stewart was actually reading for Data.

Thus Kirk is the more awesome.

Wrong. Picard wins, because his actor was so awesome he got promoted.

Seriously though, anyone as Data besides Spiner would have been so wrong.

Y'know, this is one of those things I like about Star Trek. Four different people can have four different favorite Captains and none of them are bad choices.

(except Janeway)

**MRMIRACLE** · 03-19-2013, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by SephirothDZX

Wrong. Picard wins, because his actor was so awesome he got promoted.

Seriously though, anyone as Data besides Spiner would have been so wrong.

Y'know, this is one of those things I like about Star Trek. Four different people can have four different favorite Captains and none of them are bad choices.

(except Janeway)

Well said sir.

**moneyspider** · 03-19-2013, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by The Batman

It's also worth noting that Khan blaming Kirk need not be based on events but rather Khan's perception of events. Perception that may be warped by time, pain, grief, loss, and anger as much as Khan's own ego. We don't expect someone as arrogant as Khan to blame himself for what happened do we? And really, he may have been a genetically engineered superhuman, but Khan had a head full of bad-wiring nonetheless. Always did.

Excellent points.

**dupersuper** · 03-19-2013, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by Superboy Sr

I like Archer but I would have loved to seen him commanding the Enterprise B,I think he would be better after Kirk than before Kirk.

How would that make a difference?

Originally Posted by moneyspider

Now, I can't come up with an excuse abouting the planet-counting thing, but it is possible that Khan encountered Chekhov in the original series off-screen. Isn't it possible that Chekhov was aboard the Enterprise in Season 1, but was not part of the bridge crew yet?

That's the explanation they gave in the comics: saying he started in engineering a few months before we saw him on the bridge.

**Kid Kamikaze10** · 03-20-2013, 02:28 AM

You know, the best Captain debate has always been a difficult one. But who fits the bill for worst Captain/Commander of a ship? Excluding the main captains this time, because I mean, they are the main characters. Their track records are meant to be pretty damn good.

I'll throw in the first one: the fusion dance between an 80s jock and Captain Ahab, Tim Watters. Aka, "We're Red Squad, and we can do anything!"

Seriously, did Red Squad do anything that didn't turn into a spectacular failure? I bet they could blow up a cereal bowl just by pouring milk in it.

**dupersuper** · 03-20-2013, 02:36 AM

That other Starfleet captain Voyager ran into had certainly fallen far...

**SephirothDZX** · 03-20-2013, 06:35 AM

I would say lets discuss who was the best first officer, but I'm sure that would be Spock in a landslide.

**Alan Smithee** · 03-20-2013, 06:15 PM

Ah, you boys and your Sir Ben Picard.

Janeway http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=K6DqS...%3DK6DqSTNcSx0 had bigger stones than all those hambones put together.