Favorite Captain?
Moderator: Vympel
-
HemlockGrey
- Fucking Awesome
- Posts: 13834
- Joined: 2002-07-04 03:21pm
Kirk, Jellico, Maxwell.
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
-
Admiral Johnason
- Sith Devotee
- Posts: 2552
- Joined: 2003-01-11 05:06pm
- Location: The Rebel cruiser Defender
Kirk and Sulu. The only Trek captains with an iota of tactical skill.
Name changes are for people who wear women's clothes. - Zuul
Wow. It took me a good minute to remember I didn't have testicles. -xBlackFlash
Are you sure this isn't like that time Michael Jackson stopped by your house so he could use the bathroom? - Superman
Wow. It took me a good minute to remember I didn't have testicles. -xBlackFlash
Are you sure this isn't like that time Michael Jackson stopped by your house so he could use the bathroom? - Superman
-
seanrobertson
- Jedi Council Member
- Posts: 2145
- Joined: 2002-07-12 05:57pm
Re: Favorite Captain?
I really like Dukat, especially before he went all crazy. He was a neat villain, especially when he dealt with Kira.Jeremy wrote:Let me tell you why there is no poll, there are too many options.
Gul Dukat
As a captain, however, his swaggering egotism made him almost worthless. Look at the way he screwed up the mission to stop Defiant from deploying the wormhole minefield.
The only neat thing he did as captain was trick that Bird-of-Prey in "Return To Grace," and IIRC, Kira came up with the idea anyway.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world, or despair, or fuckin' beatin's. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, ya got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man ... and give some back.
-Al Swearengen
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
-Ole' Shakey's "Richard II," Act III, scene ii.
-Al Swearengen
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
-Ole' Shakey's "Richard II," Act III, scene ii.
-
seanrobertson
- Jedi Council Member
- Posts: 2145
- Joined: 2002-07-12 05:57pm
Maxwell is apparently a decent enough tactician, but he's willing to put his own agenda well ahead of the people he serves in the Federation. He might truly believe he even cares about those directly under him (O'Brien at Setlik III), but the guy can't see the forest for the trees; i.e., that starting a war with the Cardassians would've cost many lives, just as senselessly as when his own family was killed.HemlockGrey wrote:Kirk, Jellico, Maxwell.
Jellico's prone to overconfidence, even a kind of bully mentality. When something backfires on him, his tough-guy act deflates and he's as impotent as a corpse. Look at the way that Cardassian Gul one-upped him in "Chain of Command"; Jellico was reduced from a bad ass to a wounded puppy all in the span of about ten seconds.
I really enjoyed both characters and thought they made a great contrast to Picard, but they were ultimately rather foolish in how they conducted themselves.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world, or despair, or fuckin' beatin's. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, ya got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man ... and give some back.
-Al Swearengen
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
-Ole' Shakey's "Richard II," Act III, scene ii.
-Al Swearengen
Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
-Ole' Shakey's "Richard II," Act III, scene ii.