Favorite Star Trek Captain

Of the following, which is your favorite Star Trek Captain? Captains are always the center/main characters of the series in which they are portrayed. For me, at least with Kirk and Picard, it's hard to place a favorite. They are, without a doubt, the two most influential Star Trek Captains, let alone characters (generally that is the opinion). I like some of the other Captains though, Sisko would be my third favorite.

I don't like Star Trek, but William Shatner is one of my favorite actors, so I chose Kirk.

And I press the wrong button.

Originally Posted by Del Valle

I don't like Star Trek, but William Shatner is one of my favorite actors, so I chose Kirk.

And I press the wrong button.

Captain Jean-Luc of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

It's alright, it happens. At least you're not a Trekkie, or else you'd be all over what you just did... accidentally.

I don't remember much of Cpt Kirk from the TV series, but I'm sympathetic towards him because of the new movie that came out. I loved it and his story was very interesting. Cpt Picard has his hilarious moments a la the Shakespeare performance.... don't know who to vote for (I do remember Janeway being rather cute)

Captain William T. Riker.

Originally Posted by Unorthodoxt

Captain William T. Riker.

Well, technically, I just put up Captains associated with their individual TV series. Riker did become a Captain though, of the U.S.S. Titan.

Originally Posted by J. B.

Well, technically, I just put up Captains associated with their individual TV series. Riker did become a Captain though, of the U.S.S. Titan.

He also was also the captain of several ships during the series. Most notably he assumed control of the IKS Pagh in 'A Matter of Honor' in a epic maneuver by Riker, outwitting and overpowering the Klingons and demanding Picard's surrender.

Which is one of several reasons why Riker is the best.

The most important reason however:


(Never mind the bottom part, that was something I made for a very old thread about cartoons)

Originally Posted by J. B.

Well, technically, I just put up Captains associated with their individual TV series. Riker did become a Captain though, of the U.S.S. Titan.

He was also an admiral in one of the TNG eps...though that was one of their timeline screwups.

Best regular captain is Kirk though.

i voted captain Picard, even though captain Kirk would be my 2nd choice if we could vote for 2 of them.

Captain William Shatner because I really like Boston Legal

William Shatner because he really is the only one I have seen.

Originally Posted by Pallantides

I can not believe that I actually just listened to that for 5 mins...

Kirk, not only is he a skilled captain, but if you rip his shirt, you mine as well as just sign your will cause once his shirt is ripped, not even hell will take your departed soul cause kirk would probably do things to it.

Jokes aside, he's a jack of all trades and good at it all, plus he be sleeping your wimminz and you soon will find yourself backstabbed by your wife, or girlfriend or whatnot

Picard all the way man, you can't top Patrick Stuart.

Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart steals so many scenes when he had no right to purely with his sheer class and effortless ability. His best performance was when he was captured by the Cardassians and he was being integrated by Gul Madred in Chain of Command part 2 (David Warner who played Madred also gave a great performance in that show).

I also liked Avery Brooks as Sisko but I felt his character took a while to really establish what Sisko was all about plus DS9 suffered from some terrible scripts (mostly TNG rejects) in the first two seasons. The only bad thing I have to say about Avery Brooks was at times he tended to over act and some of his lines seemed a bit forced but for most of time he was a cool customer with a powerful little ship. His stand out performance was in the episode, In the Pale Moonlight where it was he was telling his side of story of how he got the Romulans involvoed in the war in a monologue.

I chose Kirk. He is cunning, knows almost everything about his ship, loves women, and isn't afraid to go toe-to-toe with an enemy.

Picard is awesome but he is too diplomatic for me. And he never gets with the ladies! Seriously, how often did hot women come on board and try to get into his pants and he would deny them?! That's why the Enterprise-D had Riker on board.

Riker owns all.

Originally Posted by Lord Rahl

Riker owns all.

In all honesty I'd say Riker and Kirk could go toe to toe and it'd be a flip of the coin who would win.

Originally Posted by Gaidin

In all honesty I'd say Riker and Kirk could go toe to toe and it'd be a flip of the coin who would win.

I agree. Both of them are similar in terms of aggression and fighting prowess. I actually read two books by Shatner that had both TOS and TNG crews involved in the books and Kirk and Riker always seemed to be thinking along the same lines. They want to meet the opposition head on and rely on their cunning and wit to get them through the fight.

In the last book I read of Shatner's called, Captain's Glory, Kirk is always at odds with Picard and they actually have a sort of "chicken" game with their starships against each other. They are both so knowledgeable of their ships and of what each other's next move is going to be that they get into a deadlock. Finally, Riker has to come in on his Titan, yell at both of them, and get both of them to stand down.

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