Best Star Trek Captain
Best Star Trek Captain
I am a fairly big fan of Star Trek, in all of its various incarnations, and I was wondering who you think is the best captain of them all?
When voting, if possible, tell us who your favorite characters are. Can't do a poll on them because there are so many ones to choose from.
When voting, if possible, tell us who your favorite characters are. Can't do a poll on them because there are so many ones to choose from.
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No one is better then Jean-Luc Picard. Patrick Stewart is the only true actor of the bunch.
Favourite (non-captain) is Data. I love the Data-centred episodes, and I bawled at the end of Star Trek:Nemisis.
TNG is the best. All others pale in comparison.
Favourite (non-captain) is Data. I love the Data-centred episodes, and I bawled at the end of Star Trek:Nemisis.
TNG is the best. All others pale in comparison.
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It needs to be about 20% cooler.
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Agreed. Picard is the best, hands down. Janeway was decent, she was an interesting character, and she had the nerves-of-steel thing down, but she wasn't Picard. Archer, frankly, was something of a joke, and Kirk was just amusing. Sisko was alright, but too broody, in my opinion.
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Bah, Janeway; what an annoying bitch.Janeway was decent, she was an interesting character, and she had the nerves-of-steel thing down
Well Patrick Stuart may have been the better actor (not that I think Avery Brooks was bad, he did a pretty good job in American History X, if I recall correctly) DS9 was the best Star Trek series. It felt more like a complete story with a beginning, a middle and an end, and the various plot arcs felt like they were all connected together with a more deliberate purpose then the other series.
Picard hands down.
As for Sisko, I just don't see what other people see in it. People tell me that James Avery is a good actor, but he just makes me want to change the channel. He breathes through his nose much too strongly and his only emotion is "intense".
As for Sisko, I just don't see what other people see in it. People tell me that James Avery is a good actor, but he just makes me want to change the channel. He breathes through his nose much too strongly and his only emotion is "intense".
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Picard only seems better because there were more seasons of TNG than TOS. I think Kirk was an amazing captain in the movies as well as the show, because he was always ready to break the rules to get the job done. Not saying that Picard was a bad captain, I'm just more partial to TOS. DS9 was awesome, especially since there were quite a few TNG characters that either guested or were full time on the show. Voyager wasn't too bad. And Enterprise is not Star Trek to me at all, to me it defies the original idea, because Kirk's Enterprise was supposed to be the first.
As well, Hegemon, you forgot to mention Captain Christopher Pike, who was the captain in the original pilot of TOS, called the Cage. He also appears in the takeoff episode(actually a two-parter) of the pilot called the Menagerie.
As well, Hegemon, you forgot to mention Captain Christopher Pike, who was the captain in the original pilot of TOS, called the Cage. He also appears in the takeoff episode(actually a two-parter) of the pilot called the Menagerie.
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Picard for sure, although I really did like Voyager (with Janeway). She wasn't the best captain but it was an interesting series. I'll have to go find it and watch it sometime. I haven't seen it in FOREVER. Enterprise (with Archer) had an occaisional good episode, but nothing really memorable. IMO too many plot twists.
Actually, I did not forget Pike. I only included captains that were
a) given their own series
and
b) was in more than a pilot episode and an episode based on recycled footage from a pilot
Otherwise I would likely have included the Captain of the NCC-1701-B seen for 5 minutes in Generations and the Captain of the 1701-C, seen in "Yesterday's Enterprise"
a) given their own series
and
b) was in more than a pilot episode and an episode based on recycled footage from a pilot
Otherwise I would likely have included the Captain of the NCC-1701-B seen for 5 minutes in Generations and the Captain of the 1701-C, seen in "Yesterday's Enterprise"
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For the poll, I think Picard is the best captain, hands down.
As for favorite characters, I've always favored the "trying to be/understand humans" characters. Data would be my overall favorite, with the EMH and Odo not far behind. Other favorites include Q, Guinan, Quark, Barclay, and Neelix.
As for favorite characters, I've always favored the "trying to be/understand humans" characters. Data would be my overall favorite, with the EMH and Odo not far behind. Other favorites include Q, Guinan, Quark, Barclay, and Neelix.
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I like Jean-Luc, especially when he speaks French My entire vote for him.
As for the characters, I'll stick with the TNG and the Q being. It kind of reminds me of someone/something ... All powerful, inconsistent, vengeful yet interested in the mere Humans
As for Data ... He's HUMAN! Were you fooled by his "I'm an android" act? I've seen him in other movies too, I tell ya!
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As for the characters, I'll stick with the TNG and the Q being. It kind of reminds me of someone/something ... All powerful, inconsistent, vengeful yet interested in the mere Humans
As for Data ... He's HUMAN! Were you fooled by his "I'm an android" act? I've seen him in other movies too, I tell ya!
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It's all just a matter of interpretation.
I voted for Captain Picard. I'm not sure who my favorite character is. Probably Picard, Spock or Bones. (Those last two get some hilarous dialogue together.)
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I love Picard because of his willingness to stick up for his crew.
One of the episodes I saw most recently was the Sins of the Father, where he was willing to get personally involved with Worf's trial for being a traitor to the Klingon Empire, even willing to screw up a Federation Peace Treaty to do it.
Another episode that I saw pretty recently was the one where he refused to order Data to turn over Lal *data's android daughter* to starfleet command. In the episode he told the Admiral *I am not sure if that was his designation* that he felt it would be immoral to turn over Lal, and that if need be he would take the argument to starfleet command, even though that might have led to his losing his own command.
My favorite series overall was DS9 because that series I felt had teh most character growth of the ones that I actively watched (TOS, TNG and DS9... didn't watch Enterprise and I never got attached to the Voyager characters). I find that TOS has no character growth, because it stuck very closely to Rodenberry's dream of having cowboys and indians in space. TNG was great, but I found that most of the characters outside of Data and Worf weren't significantly devoled. DS9 on the other hand had more of a soap opera like quality. Odo, Kira, Bashir, Worf, Rom, Nog and just about everyone else in the series had a lot of character development and depth, at least compared with the other series.
One of the episodes I saw most recently was the Sins of the Father, where he was willing to get personally involved with Worf's trial for being a traitor to the Klingon Empire, even willing to screw up a Federation Peace Treaty to do it.
Another episode that I saw pretty recently was the one where he refused to order Data to turn over Lal *data's android daughter* to starfleet command. In the episode he told the Admiral *I am not sure if that was his designation* that he felt it would be immoral to turn over Lal, and that if need be he would take the argument to starfleet command, even though that might have led to his losing his own command.
My favorite series overall was DS9 because that series I felt had teh most character growth of the ones that I actively watched (TOS, TNG and DS9... didn't watch Enterprise and I never got attached to the Voyager characters). I find that TOS has no character growth, because it stuck very closely to Rodenberry's dream of having cowboys and indians in space. TNG was great, but I found that most of the characters outside of Data and Worf weren't significantly devoled. DS9 on the other hand had more of a soap opera like quality. Odo, Kira, Bashir, Worf, Rom, Nog and just about everyone else in the series had a lot of character development and depth, at least compared with the other series.
Picard was... how to say this... too perfect. He was and is the epitome of everything a Captain should be, to the very T. And the writers made him so cliche, because you know for a fact by the end of the episode, Picard would always do the right thing, solve the problem, and not really change (or, if the writers decided to mix things up, have a brief moment of character flaw, that was resolved in 5 minutes of discovering said flaw). If ever a model of a perfect person to live by from the Star Trek universe, Picard is the man.
Personally, Bill Adama kicks all these guy's hiney's as my favorite commander.
Personally, Bill Adama kicks all these guy's hiney's as my favorite commander.
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Favorite captian was Picard. Possibly because he was the first captian I really knew (I knew of Kirk but I never followed TOS until after I had started watching TNG. I started watching TNG something like two weeks before the final episode. Thank goodness for re-runs. Also I just love British accents. I did find it odd that a supposed Frenchman would have a British accent. Apparently in the future England invades France.
I can't watch Archer on Enterprise without expecting a holographic man to be next to him who no one else can see or hear except for small children and animals.
Favorite characters, in no particular order: Data (ok, he is my favorite ever), Geordie (I knew him from my years of watching Reading Rainbow), Worf (how can you not love Worf?), Odo, Jadzia Dax (Hotness. Ezrie or however it is spelled wasn't as cool but she was hot also so that was ok), The Doctor, Seven of freaking Nine *drool*.
I can't watch Archer on Enterprise without expecting a holographic man to be next to him who no one else can see or hear except for small children and animals.
Favorite characters, in no particular order: Data (ok, he is my favorite ever), Geordie (I knew him from my years of watching Reading Rainbow), Worf (how can you not love Worf?), Odo, Jadzia Dax (Hotness. Ezrie or however it is spelled wasn't as cool but she was hot also so that was ok), The Doctor, Seven of freaking Nine *drool*.
I think the 'There are four lights!' episode cemented Picard as the best ever captain of all time... well that and Q, Vash, the Borg, the Klingons, and so many more episodes...
Plus Patrick Stewart is simply just the best actor to play a title character in all of Star Trek.
Plus Patrick Stewart is simply just the best actor to play a title character in all of Star Trek.
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That one, and "The Inner Light."I think the 'There are four lights!' episode cemented Picard as the best ever captain of all time...
Best. Episode. Ever. Of any series.
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I don't know if Avery Brooks suffers from the same thing the other Captain actors have, which is this weird illusion that the show is about them, and everyone else is supporting cast. I mean, I guess it's what gave them the ability to act the roles. It was just funny to me that Shatner suggested that it would be powerful if he were the only one visible in Spock's death scene. Stewart's remarks on the Star Trek 25th anniversary special reflected a similar solipsism, and Mulgrew had that odd moment in Trekkies where she was discussing a preference for "Trekkers" over "Trekkies". Brooks, on the other hand, narrates Nova episodes in his real life.
But I didn't like Odo very much. My favorite character overall would be difficult to say. Worf is the most attractive, I think. Data is very interesting, but I have a soft spot for Q as well.
But I didn't like Odo very much. My favorite character overall would be difficult to say. Worf is the most attractive, I think. Data is very interesting, but I have a soft spot for Q as well.
Ah yes, I was going to say the one where he gets the flute, but I couldn't remember any character names or episode name for that one. Good call!That one, and "The Inner Light."I think the 'There are four lights!' episode cemented Picard as the best ever captain of all time...
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