Star Trek: The Captain Poll (and general discussion, I guess)

[Deset Gled]

Kirk in the movies, Picard on TV.

Yes, this is the answer given on The Big Bang Theory, but that doesn't make it any less true.

 

[Arnwolf666]

It will always be the one and only William Shattner.

 

[dragoner]

Oops, only chose one, Picard. The other two would be Janeway and Shatner Kirk; I think Janeway is hugely under-rated, esp for what the actress had to put up with. Picard still makes me smirk at being the most British Frenchman you ever saw.

 

[MarkB]

Ben Sisko is my favourite, but he was never simply a captain, so it's tough to define him by that role.

TOS Jim Kirk is the best straight-up Captain whoever Captained, with Jean-Luc Picard a close second.

 

[Mallus]

Honestly, there were so many good ways they could have gone with the Lorca arc ...

and somehow, they went the worst way.

Truth.

 

[Tonguez]

Also you didn’t list Spock who was.Captain of Enterprise when it was used as a training vessel

 

[Umbran]

and somehow, they went the worst way.

I expect they went the way that wraps up in one season, because Jason Isaacs is a really busy (and probably expensive) guy, and they likely weren't sure if a second season would happen when they wrote it.

And, honestly, I didn't mind how it went. There's a trope out there now that our villains are all nuanced to the point that you have sympathy with them. Screw that. Give us a good old, lying, cheating, power-hungry sonofamotherlessgoat every once in a while, too!

 

[lowkey13]

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[jonesy]

It took me far too long to figure out what Disco was short for.

Sisko was and is my favourite, but I'm not sure if he really counts since he so rarely sat in command of a starship.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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