I thought I'd post this to allow you Star Trek fans to duke this question out. This goes along with Ender Baron's "Trekkies" post.

Deffinitely Kirk!

Put them all in a defined situation:
The Borg are attacking a planet whose inhabitants are important to the Federation.

What do they do?

Picard: Tells Worf to open hailing frequencies and tries to negotiate the Borg away.  (Worf grumbles, obeys . . .)  Gets blown to bits.

Sisco: Tells Worf to target torpedoes and tries to destroy the Borg single-handedly.  (Worf growls, obeys . . .)  Gets blown to bits.  (Reminiscent of Wolf 359? )

Janeway: Tries to make friends with the Borg because she's been oh, so lonely out in the Delta Quadrant.  Gets everyone assimilated.

Archer: Looks at the Borg ship on the monitors with that noble Scott Bakula look.  Gets the hell outta Dodge.

Kirk: Laughs a little and calls in the fleet, destroys the Borg and then tells the other captains to go sit on it.

Moral of the story:  Kirk is a team player!  The others are just loners and pansies . . .

  Shouldn't we include Captain Pike in this poll, after all he was the Enterprise's captain in the pilot episode.

Heres how I would rate them:
  1. Kirk
  2. Sisko
  3. Archer
  4. Picard
  5. Janeway

If Pike was included in this poll he fall somwhere between Sisko and Archer.

I think Picard was the best, no great reason but probably based more on the acting skills of Stewart V Shatner.  Janeway IMHO was a sop to the ladies, she couldn't make the choice between commanding and leading a democracy.  She also needlessly endangered her crew by getting involved in all sorts of touchy feely missions when she should have been concentrating on getting home.

Will

how can anyone put archer above picard? he has to be the worst of the lot.
i think bren also just covered a few other reasons why i like picard best. he along with kirk are only ones who are truely commited to the job they were doing, they were always focused on what they had to do, although that side of kirk didnt really come out till the movies, but look at janeway, her job was to bring voyager home, a journey which at constant top warp would have taken 70 years+ so when you consider having to stop for damage, to refuel, and avoiding anomolys she the decides its a good thing to start taking U-turns side tracks and trips round the local nebula, just because it tickles her fancy that final trip like that would have prob taken over 140 years had they carried on. had that been picard or kirk, hell they would have not only found a way to save the ocompa but also have been able to use the caretakers machine.
but janeway being the type of captain who thinks more along the lines of i want to do this so i will even though there are other options.
sisko, well theres not much differance there, he acts to much on gut instincts and it got him in trouble, then he even quit his job at one point returning to earth, i would hardly call that the sign of a good captain

Kirk is a stereotypical womanizing, brash, daredevil Yank type. Picard, supposedly French heritage, cannot help but come off as a stereotypical Brit Officer, due to the actual heritage of the actor. I think that might have something to do with it in certain cases. If you look above, you will notice a small amount of Brit Yank polarization along these lines.

You favor those that represent your nationlistic ideals. Like in the Spit or Mustang debate.

My favorite? Why Captain Queeg (sp?) of course! Oops - wrong movie.

Since Pike was deemed a tad too agressive for a "Peaceful Mission" commander, he was replaced by a more compassionate Kirk........As the record shows, Tiberious was more of a "Lover" than a "Fighter", but thats not to say he wasn't a good tactician....witness the " Corbomite Maneuver ".........

There was only one......Tiberious !

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