Who's your favorite Star Trek captain?

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Kirk: Scored with many alien babes... has several undiscovered venereal diseases named after him.

Picard: Went in to get fitted for a hairpiece. came back with a Borg implant.

Cisco: had no problem simultaneously being a single parent and a stay at home dad.

Janeway: Took the starship out for a spin, hasn't been heard from since.

Archer: Screwed up countless first contacts. Started several wars.

I just love all the Star Trek's.

Just don't force me to chose one!

Can't say I really followed the series much past Deep Space Nine... or that big of a fan.

I'm just not enough of a ladies man to get the appeal of Kirk...

And Picard... he's a bit of a dandy...

I liked the everyman appeal of that Sisko character. Actually there's a lot I like about Deep Space Nine... everything was broken... makes it interesting.

I'd like to say Kirk, simply because he was played by The Mighty Shat (William Shatner = my personal Jesus), but my all-time favourite Star Trek captain has to be Benjamin "I punched Q in the face" Sisko. He really grew throughout the series, going from a stereotypical Angry Black Man in space to being a brutal bully willing to do anything to get the job done, kicking arse and taking names without any thought for the cissy laws of the Federation.

Meanwhile, Picard & Janeway whinged about the Prime Directive and wrung their hands when fist fights were needed (being Locutus doesn't excuse Picard his faults). That, and Captain Janeway had a really annoying voice (and she got promoted to Admiral before Picard or Sisko? Heresy!)...

I like them all for various reasons (though I admit I haven't followed Enterprise at all), but good ole' Jim Tiberius is most in line with my style; he gets the space honeybunnies and can whoop anybody's ass. I'd like to be him; but I'd rather have Jean Luc or Ben as my captain/commander. [I don't think I'd get on with Kathy too well; not a sexist thing, just style clashes.]

Last year, I got all of the Trek series (minus enterprise) on DVD and watched them all from TOS to Voyager from beginning to end (including all of the movies, and TAS)

The Defiant is my favorite ship of all time; lean, mean, and tough as nails.

Good fortune,

- Icarus the Space Cowboy

I like Jean Luc Picard the best, that's because he and the TNG series illustrates best the utopian society of the future more than the other ones, I think. Also because it was the best creation made by Roddenberry himself, which I think he was pleased with this more than the original. The other series are good as well, Captain Janeway is great as well, and Archer is cool, although a little primitive

Picard with a very close second by Cisco. Deep Space Nine I liked the most with a close second by The Next Generation. Especially once Worf and O'Brien came aboard. But Picard gets the nod for "Engage!" and "Make it so!" Kirk thought too much with his pants. Janeway I did not like in Voyager, and I have not watched a full episode of Enterprise. I do like Scott Bacula though, but he still could not top Picard or Cisco.

Picard was my favourite.

I think Sisko was the one I grew closest to, but I also like Picard and Kirk.

I vote Picard. Unlike Kirk, he didn't suffer from the its-an-unexplored-and-probably-dangerous-planet-so-lets-send-down-the-entire-bridge-crew compulsion. DS9 and Voyager were good, but I didn't like either series as much as TNG. And as for Enterprise... let's not even mention that, okay?

Kirk because the old show just rocked.

Everything later seemed to take itself seriously.