I have made a reply with each Captain’s name. This is not a popularity contest. This is a Leadership contest. Who is/was the best captain?

Upvote your choice(s). Comment on your choices if you like, explaining your rational… or don’t comment if you don’t like.

PLEASE, do not comment negatively on any captain. Let the love flow for these captains. Positivity please.

Lastly, if you know a captain I missed and you want to add them, feel free! There are a lot I didn’t include because I just tried to hit the major franchises, but there are certainly some worth mentioning.

P.S. I’m not a student of Trek or even that smart, just a fan trying something, so if I screw it up please forgive.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Picard is the best, most well-rounded captain. He can do diplomacy. He can do science. He can run a starship. He can fight…

      All the others aren’t shown to be as flexible or as widely capable. I still find Janeway to be my favorite though. I like my heroes to have flaws like normal people. Picard is damn near flawless, like Superman.

      • ElderWendigo
        1·
        6 months ago

        Don’t sleep on his sexual charisma, his flute skills, and his fluency in history, philosophy, and literature.

      • xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        And when he isn’t (e.g. dislike of children) he has the strongest will to overcome his inadequacies. I wonder: was there an instance in which he didn’t win? (In TNG, never liked the ‘Picard’ show.)

        So yeah, he wins this contest easy. As to who I like the most: Sisko.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      14·
      6 months ago

      I vote Picard for one main reason - we’ve seen him in far more different situations than any of the others thanks to the spread out period of TNG in series and movies. Other captains tend to have a more constrained image due to the plot they’re in. Riker would be best second in command for the same reason.