Star Trek, Paramount+, and a Defense of the Greatest Star Trek Captain

[Janx]

I second firsting Dr. Culber. I met him at a con. Very nice. We had a good talk. He has a picture of my wife.

 

[Mallus]

I was about to say Culber is probably the #1 Doc now. He tends to the emotional needs of the crew, not just the physical. All of the Trek doctors have a certain dispassion or coldness about them, but Culber is all warmth.

I love that Culber is ship's counselor by virtue of surviving the trauma of reincarnation.

 

[Mallus]

Season 1 anyway. In season 2 the personal flaws of the crew that made season 1 so enjoyable just up and disappeared. I still enjoyed season 2 and want to see season 3, but it wasn't as good as the first season.

Season 2 plays it straighter and pulls from DS9 as well as TNG. I think it was Seth MacFarlane admitting he didn't want to make a funny homage to Star Trek, he just wanted to make Star Trek.

 

[Maxperson]

Villain list,
Dukat
Khan
Captain Lorca
Borg
Dominion Founders

Hard to do. So many conflicts are phenomena or places in space instead of actual characters. The Borg really came off strong as a scary ass villain, but they got way too much exposure and are all over the place. Its diluted their impact for me, though I still love a good Borg story. I thought about mirror universe Phillipa, but I think they are going for an Elam Garrack kind of thing with the character instead of a villain.

1. Q
2. Khan
3. Dukat
4. Borg(not the ones in Voyager)
5. Changelings

 

[Maxperson]

Just for kicks, I took a look at what non-Federation governments are still alive-and-kicking by Picard... and it looks like the Gorn (of the Gorn Hegemony) are still around. It'd be pretty awesome of Lower Decks or something brought these guys back.

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I used to go hiking there a lot.

 

[Maxperson]

Season 2 plays it straighter and pulls from DS9 as well as TNG. I think it was Seth MacFarlane admitting he didn't want to want a funny homage to Star Trek, he just wanted to make Star Trek.

It didn't have to be humorous. I liked that the officers had flaws and shortcomings that came out in the shows.

 

[payn]

1. Q
2. Khan
3. Dukat
4. Borg(not the ones in Voyager)
5. Changelings

I considered Q, but he seems much more like a troll than an actual villain.

 

[Maxperson]

I considered Q, but he seems much more like a troll than an actual villain.

He caused a lot of death, though. The Borg found the Federation because of him.

 

[payn]

He caused a lot of death, though. The Borg found the Federation because of him.

Indirectly, yes. Q is a very chaotic entity and thats usually bad for those around it. Though, Q mentions they just sit back and judge humans (though winking during the sit back part). Even Picard said that introducing the Federation to the Borg was the "right thing for the wrong reasons". A source of occasional conflict? Yeah, but not really an outright adversary. The Federation aint on Q's level for that to be the case.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

No, the real #1 Captain is Lucille Ball. Without her production company and her money and her pushing for TOS to be made and aired, there would be no Star Trek at all.

For the fictional Captains, I put Kirk at #1, but only because he got a death scene that was not in an alternate universe or reversed by time travel or any other hooey.