Your Favourite Captain and Why?

Steve_o

Who is your Favouite Captain and explain Why!

AnCapaillMor

Sisko; Avery Brooks is a dam fine actor. Also Sisko took little or no sh!t, his bite was most definately worse than his bite.

Johnny Storm

Kirk, the original and the best. I mean have you seen any other Trek captains doing a flying leg kick?

(I much prefer the TV and early film Kirk, Shattner got a bit too much into the self-parody in the later films)

PS I propose that if anyone votes for Janeway or Archer they should be banned for life (at least). Not that I would wish in any way to impinge on anyone's personal freedoms........

tj-music.com

Shatner was a cowboy not a captain. As much as I love the classic episodes I have to give my vote to Picard. He shows teeth and fights well if needs be but he is more a man of words and I like that.

Fuhrio

Gotta be Picard.

Sensible, good decision maker, and a good leader.

Laguna

AnCapaillMor wrote:

Sisko; Avery Brooks is a dam fine actor. Also Sisko took little or no sh!t, his bite was most definately worse than his bite.

I agree, he (Sisko) wasn't one dimensional like the rest of the Captains mentioned (i.e. his intentions and motives weren't always clear or morally acceptable). Only Avery Brooks and Patrick Stewart had the presence and authority to enable me to accept them as Captains. I haven't seen Enterprise so I can't comment on Archer, Janeway; she just didn't convince me and Kirk, well Kirk was always tongue in cheek...

Johnny Storm

Laguna wrote:

..... and Kirk, well Kirk was always tongue in cheek...

I have to respectfully disagree with your opinion there, fellow sentient. IMHO one of the best things about the first two seasons of TOS and one of the things that contributed to making them classics is that Shatner plays it totally straight and serious. He seemed to discover the comedic possibilities of over-the-top self-parody after The Voyage Home. Just my opinion.....

Steve_o

I though Sisko was the only Captain who got things done!!! All the others were messin around with the Prime Directive and stuff like that!!!

Keyzer

Picard for the sole reason of -

Tea, Earl Grey, hot....

Sherifu

Picard for his big shiny bald head!

Flukey

I agree with Fuhrio. Picard had that calmness and sense about him. He approached things more rationally and carefully. He was a good leader but was also able to take the lead from members of his crew, which is a good sign in a leader. He had trust and confidence in them and they had that in him too. He was their leader, but still part of the team.

The Free Man

archer, because he was an angry bastard, always beating people up...

Johnny Storm

OK. Who voted for Janeway?????

AnCapaillMor

Johnny Storm wrote:

OK. Who voted for Janeway?????

The old doll that played her must be on these boards.

enterprise

Picard for "Make it so"

I like Janeway but Picard got my vote in the end! Hell Sisko is a fine Captain as well!

My list would be:

1. Picard.
2. Sisko.
3. Janeway.
4. Kirk.
5. Archer.

Johnny Storm

enterprise wrote:

I like Janeway ......
......
3. Janeway.
4. Kirk.
......
.

:eek: Blasphemy!

As someone said on Trekweb.com recently: Kirk is quite like Janeway, except he doesn't have a moustache.

I've been waiting for a chance to use that one. :v: :v: :v:

Stevee

Are you sure you really like Star Trek Enterprise

The Free Man

Stevee wrote:

Are you sure you really like Star Trek Enterprise

u talkin to me? u talkin to ME? aint nobody else vote for archer, so you must be talkin to me.....

yes i like enterprise, so?

J.R.HARTLEY

tj-music.com wrote:

Shatner was a cowboy not a captain. As much as I love the classic episodes I have to give my vote to Picard. He shows teeth and fights well if needs be but he is more a man of words and I like that.

yeah picard a great fighter only missing one thing, balls.
kirk would kick his ass, thats right, my makey up sci-fi character would kick your makey-up sci-fi characters backside


seriously though what a man kirk was, he's sit in that chair ogling the birds in short dresses, what did picard do , lock himself away in his ready room, looking at dirty pictures on his screen.:eek:

Steve_o wrote:

I though Sisko was the only Captain who got things done!!! All the others were messin around with the Prime Directive and stuff like that!!!

breaking the prime directive, if that carried the death penalty kirk would be dead by episode 2,


but spock,
she's a hottie piece of tottie.

Tar.Aldarion

Picard for me, he is a legend of a captain. An all roubnd leader with catchphrases to boot

Kojak

Picard or Sisko - the best. Picard was a lot more ruthless than a lot of people thought.

Sisko wouldn't take any rubbish and had a ansty streak to him i.e. he never though of the consequences of destroying a planet to capture a rogue officer.

Archer was terrible, Kirk was OK (Actually I though he was better in the films than the series).

Janeway always reminded of an old school marm - weird.

Bobt

Has to be Kirk for me. He showed them all how to do it. When you listen to any of the captains since you can see Kirk as the biggest influance.

The Crazy Horse

The captain of the USS Crazy Horse!

Capt'n Midnight

Forgetting about the character and focusing on the captaining bit it's Picard.

Kirk - too much of a trouble shooter and on way too many away missions.

Janeway is one of the reasons I don't watch voyager unless there promisies to be lots of special effects / Borg / 7 / the Doctor. Just knowing 50 different ways of saying reversing the polarity should sort out the problem. And blatent disregard of the prime directive putting a way to shave some time off the voyage home above the right of entire species to exist.

Johnny Storm

Janeway should have been courtmartialled as soon as she got her saggy ass back to the Alpha quadrant.

Seriously, can you imagine Kirk, Picard or Sisko allowing their crew to be marooned 70 years from home? It'd never happen.

Johnny Storm

Shatner is pretty funny here:-

You can call me ....

Give the video a few minutes to load

tj-music.com

The video was so funny!!!!!!