Current Events > Who was the best Star Trek Captain? (Spoilers for all Star Trek series)

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Who's the best? who's the worst?
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I'd say Archer is the best. He was reasonable and tried to do the right thing.
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Who the hell voted Janeway
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kuwab0 posted...

Who the hell voted Janeway

something wrong with Janeway? I know she's not well likes, but she's kind of a pitbull Capitan.

no I didn't vote for her, I went with Picard
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@kuwab0 posted...

Who the hell voted Janeway

Janewho?
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Ludwig Von 2 posted...

I'd say Archer is the best. He was reasonable and tried to do the right thing.

*cough*A Night in Sickbay*cough*
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No love for Kirk lmao
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kuwab0 posted...

Who the hell voted Janeway

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The Sisko FTW!

The only Captain who sent "Q" away with 1 punch.

"Q" never came back to bother him again and went on to pester Captain Janeway.
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Tea; Earl Gray; Hot bump
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Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise
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it's really surprising that Kirk is so low
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Alakazamtrainer posted...

it's really surprising that Kirk is so low

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Capt. James Tiberius Kirk
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Picard, easily. Siski is a solid #2. Kirk drops a bit for overacting and general implausibility as a starship captain. I like Kirk much better in the movies than on the original show.

Archer is way, way behind those three. Janeway is even farther behind Archer.
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I'll take one of Picard's speeches all day over the other nonsense.
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Kirk > Picard > who the fuck cares
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Alakazamtrainer posted...

it's really surprising that Kirk is so low

I mean... he was a fun character, but in terms of actually being a good captain for not only his crew, but for the federation he was awful. Someone should have told him the prime directive wasn't to seed a child on every planet you visit.
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You know, it all comes down to opinion and personal preference, but freaking Janeway is tied with Kirk? Come on now.
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Picard, although Kirk had the better Star Trek movies.
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Southernfatman posted...

You know, it all comes down to opinion and personal preference, but freaking Janeway is tied with Kirk? Come on now.

Kirk is a pop culture icon but on no level inspirational. Also his series coined the whole red shirt trope, dude got people killed like no other.
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Picard, followed by Sisko.
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The Admiral posted...

I like Kirk much better in the movies than on the original show.

from anecdotal experiences irl, I find most people feel this way
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Janeway went through the most stressful ordeals and accomplished the most imo. Can't blame her if she she went a bit crazy here and there.
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spanky1 posted...

Janeway went through the most stressful ordeals and accomplished the most imo. Can't blame her if she she went a bit crazy here and there.

Voyager was her first command & she had the most stressful problem thrusted onto her at the very 1st mission which would take 7 years to resolve.

A problem no other Captain in StarFleet history ever had to deal with.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

spanky1 posted...

Janeway went through the most stressful ordeals and accomplished the most imo. Can't blame her if she she went a bit crazy here and there.

Voyager was her first command & she had the most stressful problem thrusted onto her at the very 1st mission which would take 7 years to resolve.

A problem no other Captain in StarFleet history ever had to deal with.

You think that's more stressful than being integrated into, and removed from, the Borg?
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s0nicfan posted...

You think that's more stressful than being integrated into, and removed from, the Borg?

You know what's more stressful than that, all the other StarFleet officer who were never saved from being a Borg.
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s0nicfan posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

spanky1 posted...

Janeway went through the most stressful ordeals and accomplished the most imo. Can't blame her if she she went a bit crazy here and there.

Voyager was her first command & she had the most stressful problem thrusted onto her at the very 1st mission which would take 7 years to resolve.

A problem no other Captain in StarFleet history ever had to deal with.

You think that's more stressful than being integrated into, and removed from, the Borg?

That literally happened to Janeway.
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s0nicfan posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

spanky1 posted...

Janeway went through the most stressful ordeals and accomplished the most imo. Can't blame her if she she went a bit crazy here and there.

Voyager was her first command & she had the most stressful problem thrusted onto her at the very 1st mission which would take 7 years to resolve.

A problem no other Captain in StarFleet history ever had to deal with.

You think that's more stressful than being integrated into, and removed from, the Borg?

I have to agree. and SHE SHOULD not have been made an admiral
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Vultis_Zales posted...

I have to agree. and SHE SHOULD not have been made an admiral

I don't think she should have been a 3 pipped ranked admiral.

There's some serious political shenanigans or cover ups for her to get that posting & rank so soon after her return.

A 1 pipped ranked admiral would make sense, but 3!!!!
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my favourite captains Are Picard and Sisko even if Sisko had beef with picard.
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Best: Picard
Worst: Janeway
Most badass: Sisko
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creativerealms posted...

Best: Picard
Worst: Janeway
Most badass: Sisko

How does "Archer" not take the worst category for you?
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Janeway constantly made irrational or poorly thought-out decisions that worked out solely because the writers made it that way. Realistically the ship would have been destroyed about 50 times over before they got half way through the Delta quadrant. Not to mention that the Maquis would have taken over long before then.

She was a terrible leader for the situation she was in, spared only thanks to plot immunity from the writers who inexplicably loved her character and didn't think she could do any wrong.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

The Sisko FTW!

The only Captain who sent "Q" away with 1 punch.

"Q" never came back to bother him again and went on to pester Captain Janeway.

Sisko was a war criminal that used chemical weapons against civilians and arranged the assassination of a Romulan senator
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Benjamin Sisko.

When it comes to the original captains, I always likened it to the notion that Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway represented four of the five main specialties that'd you'd expect from an exceptional officer:

Kirk - explorer
Picard - diplomat
Sisko - soldier/tactician
Janeway - scientist

Obviously, they all have experience in all other categories, but those are the primary focuses from my point of view.

Only thing I thought that was really missing was a captain that had most of their experience as an engineer. I still wish that a specific Dominion War TV series had been made, with a captain that was essentially promoted up from Chief Engineer for his ship and his specialty was essentially getting every ounce of performance possible from the ship in strenuous and often damaged circumstances.
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TES_Nut posted...

Sisko was a war criminal that used chemical weapons against civilians and arranged the assassination of a Romulan senator

He also helped win the war against "The Dominion".

Yeah, Governments sometimes needs to get their hands dirty to accomplish long term greater goals.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

No love for Kirk lmao

Too many kids in here voting. I grew up when TNG was airing and I still no better than to vote Picard.
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Picard of course, with Sisko as a strong runner-up. Fuck Kirk.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

creativerealms posted...

Best: Picard
Worst: Janeway
Most badass: Sisko

How does "Archer" not take the worst category for you?

Because Janeway exists.

Honestly in seasons three and four when not written by Berman and Bragga Archer wasn't horrible.
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warp speed bump
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Best: Sisko
Worst: Archer
Most Badass: Kirk
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bump
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I mean Archer was the very first to explore. No Prime Directive, no real guidelines to follow. I don't think i'd rank him at the very top, but probably higher than Janeway and Kirk.
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Adama
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I love TOS, but Kirk was a horrible captain. He broke the Prime Directive every other episode and burned through red shirts like they were firewood. That the Enterprise crew accomplished so much was pretty much down to Scotty, Bones, and Spock propping Kirk up and ensuring things went to plan.

To me, Archer wasn't very likeable as a person but he generally did very well with what he had to work with. Enterprise being the weakest series doesn't do him any favors either.

Janeway is a mixed bag. There was no safety net in the delta quadrant, and a lot of her poor decisions would have been hard to call either way if you were stuck in her place with no hope of any backup. I liked Janeway as a character, and like Archer, the character was given a lot of bad episodes and arcs that dragged her down.

Sisko was awesome. DS9 took awhile to find its footing, but Sisko was consistently good and made the hard choices when he needed to.

Picard was the best overall and it isn't even close. TNG is also my favorite Star Trek series by a mile.

Sisko, hands down.

Not only is the only war-time captain who actually, you know, fought a war, but he also has so many badass moments that it's almost impossible to list them all. Among his greatest hits;
- Was harassed by Q once, at which point, he punched him out.
- Single-handedly crippled the Maquis.
- Survived Wolf 359.
- Created an alliance with the Romulans (that actually held).
- Defeated the Dominion.
- Defeated non-corporeal, non-linear demons.
- Fought the Dominion, the Klingon Empire, the Cardassians, the Borg, the Pah-Wraiths, the Maquis, etc.

Not only that, but he had some deeply profound episodes and speeches, too. He's literally the only captain that can claim to be a religious, military, and diplomatic icon.

BruceWayneJr posted...

Picard of course, with Sisko as a strong runner-up. Fuck Kirk.

Didnt pretty much everyone already do that (re: Kirk)?

I love Scott Bakula (he was Archer, right?), but no one can hold a candle to Patrick Stewarts Picard.
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