Haven’t done one of these in awhile. In honor of Star Trek’s 50th
Anniversary, one of many articles and tributes you will see this year, I
present an idea long overdue. Just for fun of course. With four series
spanning decades now, we have managed to come up with some very distinct
characters. These are characters fans have loved and will love for a
very long time. But what if you could blend these different shows, and
create a perfect Star Trek command crew? The characters I will discuss
come from:
This ended up being harder than I expected. So in order for this to
work I had to make a few rules. I had to match up the characters so they
would fit by position rather than rank and some, like Chief Engineer,
was easy. Others was trickier, so for instance Spock was Science Officer
but I listed him as First Officer. Data was Science Officer and
Operations. Augh!! I’ll explain the other choices as we go. And I needed
a category for the odd characters that only spend half the series there
with no official command role but deserved to be in here since they are
as loved as any other character. And finally I know it could be
cheating but Worf was listed twice, for TNG and DS9. But I think I broke
them down fairly. Finally, sorry but Enterprise is left off. It just
worked better without it, and besides none of those characters were
really that interesting.
Usually I try fairy disperse the selection so every show (or
character) is fairly represented. But that was nearly impossible with
this one. Now I imagine many will disagree with the choices below, just
remember that this all in good fun. If you disagree that’s cool, I
respect your opinion.
Let’s start with the big one…
Captain-Next Generation
This is the debate that has raged on for years. Kirk vs. Picard. You
throw in Sisko and Janeway and you’ve got a serious debate! A lot of
people would say Sisko is the greatest captain of them all. Yeah…..not
for me. I think Sisko is bad ass when the going gets tough, but the rest
of the time he just kind of fades into the background. Janeway rocks,
even though many may disagree with me. She is tough and no nonsense.
Problem is she isn’t much of a diplomat. So, we are down to Kirk and
Picard. Who would you rather have, the all action Kirk or the no
nonsense Picard? It’s a very tough call but I think Picard is the
stronger commander. He has more experience, and uses his head more than
diving into action. Not that Kirk wasn’t great at out thinking his
opponents. I just like Picard a little more. I could go on and one
comparing these two, but that’s a subject for another article and we got
nine more categories to discuss.
