She also sold WMDs to the Borg.

Make it so!

Janeway: You want to run inhumane experiments on me and my crew, well I guess I'll just kill us all.

She had me at captured Borg. Also, shooting a phaser into a temporal window could destroy a galaxy. Time and again is one of my favorite of all the star treks

The reason I think Janeway is severely overrated on this list is because, despite Kate Mulgrew's best efforts, she was written so _inconsistently._

Enterprise and DS9 dont deserve the hate they get for sure.

He struggled half the time because he was arrogant, short-tempered and overly proud. Why Starfleet would put a person in charge who is openly hostile towards Vulcans, can't control himself and doesn't know the first thing about diplomacy is beyond me. That one episode in which his dog gets sick after returning from a first contact mission on an alien planet was very revealing.

I like "Enterprise" and Archer better than "DS9". "DS9" was too dark and depressing. Kirk wasn't bad either. Haven't seen "Discovery" yet. The crew of a ship becomes like a family..I remember what Kirk saying something about how empty the ship felt with the children gone. I'm sure Archer soon felt the same. Picard's not much a family man and I'm not sure about Janeway either. Sisko was better at fathering his boy.

I stopped listening at that point... Enterprise was a much better show than the crappy Discovery.

@@Zimionz He doesn't like Vulcans at the start. But the show gives a good explanation for that. His father never got to see the result of his lifes work, because the Vulcans slowed them down. (For logical reasons of course. ; ) ) He got his position because he knows the Enterprise, which is an experimental prototype. And diplomacy.. well atleast better than Kirk's diplomacy. That's more like "Set Phasers to stun.." ;) But this is all the point of Enterprise. To show how Starfleet rules and protocols develope. They make mistakes (ok, sometimes reaaaly stupid ones) and learn from it.

Sisko is number 1 on grunge look at that one.

Sisko and DS9 as a series went onto a different "frontier", looking into ones self. The series had dept exploration into its characters that the other shows didn't even touch.

Number 4 are you serious!!!!????

@@revinar5838 well at the moment i am watching DS9 again its a good series... problem its has to much religios shit in it that i do not like and sosko has some realy horrible moments.

Dude, same!

He's number 2 for me. Pacard 1. Sisko 2. Janeway 3. And Kirk at 4. I couldn't stand Janeway's character but she was a great captain

Janeway is my # 3. Right behind Kirk at #2 and Picard at (obviously) #1.@@vernonleewarren280

Agreed. But Sisko is an obvious # 4 for me. 1st (clearly) Captain Jean Luc Picard. 2nd, Captain James T. Kirk. #3 Captain Kathryn Janeway...After that? I don't really care.

Ash Burn It was. TNG grew out of “Star Trek: Phase II”, the Trek/Shatner comeback in the late 70’s. Had Star Wars not dropped onto the scene we would have not had the original crew move to movie format.

Picard was the anti-Kirk is many ways. Picard was a philosopher, a poet, a renaissance man... riker is a poon hound.

Picard , Data and Riker together had the traits of Kirk and Spock

Yes. Very much. Awesome observation. I just started the new generation and I cant unsee this! Lol

Still picard was around alot longer, so he ended up dealing with alot more.

Not the main ship but should absolutely count. Add to it.. the next time we see "his" ship...Sulu is Captain

In Styles' defense: a) It turns out even after fixing the sabotage, transwarp wasn't stable, they had to replace it with standard warp, and b) That swagger stick was a cut down and deactivated Klingon pain baton... which Styles won in single combat. (I forget the whole story but it was like, instead of ship vs. ship he challenged the Klingon Captain mano-a-mano and won, even shaming the Klingon because he cheated bringing the pain stick.) Starfleet still threw him under the proverbial shuttlecraft.

@LogKnow No, they were two completely different people. Lt. Stiles was not the same person as Captain Styles (note the different spelling). Lt. Stiles was a bigot who got owned by Kirk after smarting off about Spock. Captain Styles was the CO who oversaw the shakedown cruise of the Excelsior. Their names do sound the same, hence the confusion.

I'll see you and raise you Captain John "Is It Tuesday Yet" Harriman of the Enterprise-B

@@Andrew-pr9xv I don't think we can count him; after all, we're not seeing him at his best. He's just seething with envy that the Great Kirk is aboard.

@Superfly Toad i love the MACOs I think, they themselves should get an entire series alone. I mean about time we see Starfleet special forces.

But Ettansf is right. Originally speaking the NX-01 Enterprise wasn't really designed for combat. Unlike most future Starfleet vessels. (Note I'm not calling them warships, I just mean vessels that built with combat in mind but not dedicated to the role)

Miles Millet remember that whole Malcom Reed, his family angry with him for not joining a military vessel, rub it in Blue Chick, rub it in....moment?

No, and neither are the other USS ships; mostly for science research, exploration, and humaintarian aid. For NX Enterprise, it was the beginning of stronger weapons for "defense," and to aid those that were getting attacked....just like other ships in the future did. Starfleet's ships are " military type," but not military persay.

@@Starfleet8555 we almost did on Star Trek Beyond, but they turned out to be vicious, outrageous killing species 😳😳

Kirk thought out of the box to get the job done and keep the ship safe out of danger... he will always be number 1. Politics make Picard number 1. :-) Kirk never liked Star Fleet Politics... :-)

His improvised Corbomite Manuever is referenced as being part of Starfleet curriculum by the 24th century.

Prime Kirk being brilliant when he needed to makes Kelvin Kirk so much more unbelievable. Yes, Prime Kirk also manipulated the Kobayashi Maru Simulator, but even though we never see it on screen, I bet he had made a more believable Bluff than just going "oh, look on those sensors again, you've missed something". So to me, Kelvin Kirk is even worse than a mirror Lorca posing as Captain.

Imagine Picard facing Khan. lol Khan would’ve owned him because Picard is inept with no intuition or guts to disobey starfleet

Yes... But then the second half of season 3 happened...

Enterprise was pretty good felt like how we could be

archer was the captain before kirk

I hated the theme song and the "time cold war" which led to a locked room on the ship with "Mcguffin's" to get out of any situation, were my only problems. They jumped the shark with those bits. I wanted more just raw "Wild West" exploration, which they had a fair bit of. All that being said I don't think it was as bad as most people believe it to be.

@@davidfulwiler4713 I rewatched it on Netflix - the second time around I really, really liked the show, even the "Expanse" subplot. I could have well done without a forehead "explanation" though.

@kevin lawrence i think he got the top 4 correct though. those are my favorite Star Trek captains and probably most peoples as well.

I agree except for janeway

OK , enough of this jazz it's captain Captain James Tiberius Kirk he's the real deal I'm sorry 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

@@deborahskillman3003 Kirk is one of my favorite captains to. But Sisko is number one in my book.

@@Starfleet8555 if somebody had told me 25 years ago that I'd be saying this, I'd have laughed myself silly at them, but having recently binge-watched Deep Space Nine after not seeing it in many many years, you're right. Pr at very least, 1a: Sicko 1b: real Kirk since this cointdown thinks Chris Pine even counts.

How about an emissary of d prophets lol.

Nope

@@kevinwalsh9662 Archer did basically wrote the book of being a Captain.

Does he even count since he waa reconned? Star Trek The Cage: "our new ships....." 13 years before Kirk talking to someone out of contact with civilization for 18 years, well, that doesn't quite add up to 115 years.

Exactly! Thank you! At least someone was paying attention! Hehehe 🧐🧐😉

Totally agree I just also recently watched season 2 and grew to appreciate and like him more with each scene he absolutely nailed it and almost put him right up with Picard for me 👍

We like -Ike- Pike!

Just watch strange new worlds and you will appreciate this guy even more

@@ankitbisaria I do need to, it’s on my list for sure!

leftcoaster67 Target that explosion and fire!

One of the best lines in Star Trek history.

Yes😂

Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country is my favourite in the movie series, even though Picard is my fav captain

"Ooohh my...."

Ash?

ALWAYS listen to Wesley.

That was actually an example of Picard at his worst, being dismissive of an important warning of the infiltration of his bridge crew because it's coming from a kid. This whole scene is so poorly interpreted, because people only remember the stupid meme, not the scene's actual intent. It humanizes Picard by showing him losing his temper and allowing his frustration to make him make a mistake. If Dr. Crusher hadn't pointed out his outburst to him, Picard may not have put a tail on Lore and stopped him from feeding the ship to the crystaline entity. The point of the scene was that you shouldn't be dismissive of someone just because they're young, and it became a way of doing just that.

Mr. Broccoli quote was a good one too

The only time Picard was really cool was when he had the laser pointer on his head. Why take a British Shakespeare actor to play a French, whose name he can't even pronounce properly?

while raising a child which NONE of the other captains ever did!

Love the allamaraine reference

Sisko beat up Q?? How?!? How does one beat up Q??

You bastard.... You've got me picturing that god awful scene of Sisko, Kira, Dax hopscotching.... Thanks..! 🤣👏🏾

@@idontwannaidontwanna7307 Hahahahahahaha. That was a terrible episode. Clearly it was their "We are running out of money for the season and have to do a six characters in a closet episode to make up the difference."

Russell Harrison agreed! She flew into Borg space, boarded a Borg vessel and informed them they would permit Voyager safe passage if they wanted to live, and meant it.

I didn't like Kate Mulgrew until I saw her in Voyager... She had almost always played bitches and appeared in movies and TV shows that sucked...

She’s my very favourite captain

@@andrewquick4176 I did and do like Janeway but I, wouldn't go THAT far!!! Captain Kirk is, still my favorite but I'm torn between captain Archer and Captain Picard for next favorite... Janeway was, awesome though... Discovery and Picard I, have yet to see...

@@NorthMountainFairy Which then allowed the Borg to assimilate several other entire species. Not Janeway's finest hour at all.

I agree. Though I'm not really a Trekkie or Trekker, I love vintage TV better than the crap that's on now. And, also if it wasn't for Kirk, we wouldn't have everything else "Star Trek".

When the Next Generation started on TV, I said, as a kid, they need to kill off Jean-Luc Picard and have Cmdr. William Riker take over. It would be far more exciting to have a younger Captain flying through space and an old man. I have to agree with you, Kirk will always be Number 1.

That's what they call rose tinted glasses.

@@vincentk3502 Old? Patrick Stewart was about 47 (born in 1940) when he began as Picard in 1987. Probably because he was bald, he looked older than he was to a kid who started watching in 1987. I started watching the original series as a young kid in the 60's and still think Kirk is tops - although the Shatner had a huge ego because of it.

@@riogrande5761 I started in early 70s with my dad. I agree, Kirk will always be the best. At the time in the 80s, I wanted Picard gone and replaced with Riker because Riker seemed more like a 'Young Space Cowboy flying through space, and putting his *boots* on, resembling a new Kirk. :-)

Absolutely, totally agreed. There's no competition for Jean Luc Picard, frankly.

I never thought of it that way - well put!

Spock : Team Wisdom McCoy : Team Valor Kirk : Team Instinc??

@@aegyo9272 good point! pokemon vibes hehe but yes!

WHAT?!?!?!?!

I see the Prophets are with you!

StillsTheSeries Janeway is far superior to Sisko

Dancestar1981 In what ways?

If she'd done that then the series would have lasted exactly one 90 minute episode...

@@randyt60 Agreed. I attribute that to lazy writing. Make it a true no win scenario where Janeway must remain in the Delta Quadrant, not the weak and clearly solvable issue they made it. It made the entire crew look dumb. Janeway and co deserved better.

The way things were going with Starfleet now, closer to the 25th century, I think Picard threw the book out the nearest airlock! Lol

Agreed, but lets be honest, who would rather serve under? Officers dying under Picard was a rarity. With Kirk, well . . . In other words, we could say Kirk is a better TV/movie captain, and Picard would be the better captain in real life. After all, in real life, do we really want military leaders who frequently disregard the rules?

@@crazydud3380 There's an episode where an alien people want to kill Wesley for walking on grass, and Picard's like, "Hmm... well, the Prime Directive applies here...." Kirk would NEVER let something like that even be considered. The Prime Directive was always stupid, so, no, I don't want a leader who blindly follows it.

@@CuckooKukri Yes, well, I think we all mostly like to ignore season 1! LOL. From season 3 onward, Picard was not that extreme. That, and that isn't how the prime directive works. The point of it is not to create cultural contamination by making contact with a pre-warp species, as well as not interfering with conflicts on another world (such as a war between nations on another planet), especially if the species is not part of the Federation. If they are, then they will intervene to protect from foreign invaders, such as protecting Bajorans from Cardassians. If it is a dispute within the world between species that are both part of the Federation, then it gets more complicated. Star Trek never did a particularly great job at defining how the Federation works, particular in terms of how it is governed. The most we usually saw of that was in DS9, wherein the Prime Directive was a guiding principle always given consideration and not likely broken, but sometimes it was. What is most interesting is each Captain's response to it, as they are each different. Maybe Janeway would be a good to serve under, just without the whole getting stranded aspect of it, or even Sisko. Both took the Directive very seriously and fully understood why it was important, but both violated it when it was determined that others factors superseded it. Picard did this too on multiple occasions, but he was definitely the least frequent violator (I am not counting Archer, as the directive did not exist yet). Even Kirk did not completely ignore it (at least not in most of the well-written episodes). A prime example of this is a Private Little War. Here Kirk interferes, but only because interference had already taken place thanks to the Klingons, so Kirk put in equal interference in order to balance both sides (a very obvious Cold War parallel). In Return of the Archons, he interferes, but that is because they are being unknowingly controlled by an AI, so he is simply giving their world back to them. In that episode where people report to execution chambers. Kirk interferes as a direct result of his crew being markes for death. He sees his duties to protect his crew as even more important than the Prime Directive. Also note there is a down side. His interference is part of why he got so many red shirts killed. Kirk, as much as I love him, has the worst track record with keeping his crew alive. Ultimately, there should be an ideal middle ground between Kirk and Picard.

@@crazydud3380 Which is why Sisko is my favorite.

Kirk, Sisko, Archer, Janeway, then Picard.

I don't like the idea that Archer Foundet the Federation. I like him. he made friends with Shran, gained mutual respekt with the Vulcans and other species. But ultimately, He only brought people to a table that then decided to found the Federation. Did he play a major role? sure.

Again, thank you to you too! EXACTLY what I mean.

The fans didn't agree and neither did I. The story arch of the time jumping was just to stupid for a show that was about how the Federation and Star Fleet came into existence. The writing was just bad, which is why no one watched it, and since the days of that show Star Trek has continued on a downward trajectory to this very day

@@marcmorgan7796 Oh shut up

@@stellapm The truth hurts sometime

Ok, lets not get carried away now. I very much enjoyed enterprise. But archer?.... He just wasn't a believable captain. It didnt help that he was extra corny alot of times. I agree with the top 4

@@coolbeans6148 LMAO... I'm not getting carried away at all, I simply did not enjoy the show, and the fact that the show did not hit the magic 7 season number like all the Star Treks that came before it (except the original Trek) shows that the majority of the fans agreed. I have to admit, I laughed myself to tears when Stella told me to shut up, I just love her passion for the show, she is a true Trek fan, I just hate the Trek she loves is all... nothing personal on my end, just expressing my opinion and I respect everyone else's I just cannot stand Enterprise, and right next to that one is Voyager, absolutely could not STAND Janeway

@Logan Waltz oppinios are assholes - everyone has it...but some stinks more that other

@Jim Barrows Sisko never killed a single Maquis.

True but you see Archer’s ship take a beating but it seemed like the Enterprise was made out of paper and cardboard in the Kelvin timeline.

She did much more including destroying the borg Janeway always be #1 to me. Has the moxie of Kirk and diplomatic skills of Picard

Remember when Janeway murdered one of her own crew while he begged for his life and the rest of her crew refused to assist her? Yeah not too keen on having her as a commanding officer.

@@stewarde17 how about in some episodes holding the Prime Directive as sacrosanct even when it would help people but breaking it when it was inconv for her? Hell it was her own fault they were stuck in the first place. If she wanted to get involved with the caretaker she could have planted timed explosives on it and still used it to get home.

Janeway got helped by picard, if i remembered correctly

@@stewarde17 Janeway was more diplomatic than Archer, I'll give her that

Yeah for me kirk is more charismatic

I agree. Without Kirk, there is no Star Trek.

Discovery version of any captain should be the buttom stumped on together with any jar jar movie captains they should all die and disapear, together with CBS B license lets get back to the A License and prober star trek.

@James sevensix nothing under b license aka kelvin timeline is trek or should be considered trek or canon

@@Wipeout186 its all canon but since its in a different timeline it has no bearing over the universe the rest of the shows/movies are set in. so its like. its canon, technically, but it literally doesnt matter and i Dont Care

@@redcoded4430 the b license and with it kelvin timeline is not canon in anyway. Plus std is set before kelvin happen which means everything it does damage the a license and prime timeline canon is ruined. As I said anything under b license can't and shouldn't be canon as CBS demand

STD is great. Y'all need to chill.

No starfleet backup and yet amazingly the ship would be like new at the start of every episode even though it took major damage in the previous one.

nohomers100 yeah true but that happened in original series and Next Gen . Remember they did have replicators to help out as well. Also the next episode didn't necessarily start the next day , it could be a month between incidences.

It was Janeway's fault the crew got stuck in the Delta Quadrant to begin with.

Disagree with a lot of this. Picard would always exhaust diplomatic options because the consequences are innocent lives lost, but if diplomatic options failed he was ready to fight, and fight well. That is not a weakness but a strength and shows he has the will to resist the easy reaction of fighting that most of us would take. He was proved right more than he was wrong. Kirk was often too happy trigger, and the long line of red shirts would agree. Picard has excellent insights and instinct as well as Kirk did. Riker also notes the Picard was the best captain he served under. You call it conservative, I prefer prudent and wise and his whole crew looked up to him as a father figure which is not a weakness, and also as the commanding officer when he disciplined them or commanded them in battle. Picard often thought out of box right from the start of his career when he was outgunned in the stargazer and created a new tactical manoeuvre. The whole point about Q Who was that Picard did acknowledge the need for higher intervention in the end. I can also cherry pick flaws in Kirk- the fact he wants to go to war with the Klingons and eventually has to admit the diplomatic way is better. (In the episode where the Klingons take over a world, and the aliens there are entirely peaceful and refuse to fight. ) The fact that he wanted the whole Klingon species to die “let them die” and didn’t want to help any of them and blamed the whole species for killing his son. Picard also admits that there may be God. He’s agnostic at the very least. In one episode he talks about the beauty of the universe and its wonders and complexity and says there must be something more. Even if he was an atheist though, that is not something that makes you a weak captain. They are both very different captains but both excellent. For me, Picard is a better captain, and if we were serving on his ship would be more likely to survive a beam down thanks to Picard’s diplomatic skills.

Also just from a tv standpoint he is the best character in my opinion. But I have only seen TOS and TNG and a little discovery before I dropped that garbage.

I would have done Picard, Sisko, Kirk, Janeway (in that order)

@@ThanosXv I probably would have done the same. Picard will always be number one for me but DS9 was probably the show I like more overall. And Sisko was a great captain in that.

Nice evaluation

Yeah. Well recognized, man. Well put, well-recognized, well said, well considered. In my estimation of the greatest Captains, Picard simply has no competition. If he did, it'd be Captain James T. Kirk.

Was it good for you?

@@jameskwaka You beat me to it. So to speak.

I've always ranked the Captains as followed: 1A and 1B-Sisko and Archer, 3-Kirk, 4-Picard, 5-Movie Kirk, 6-Kelvin Kirk, 7-Janeway, and everyone else.

Btw that is the single best reason for Piccard as #1. Wore the red shirt for years and lived to tell the tale.

Only 25 redshirts died in the original series. Not as bad as we all thought.

To be honest, you are right.

But lacks follow through. Returning from being lost is admirable, but Sisko defended and fought at another level. Captan and Commander of a crucial port. His star ship was serious too. Just saying.

@@organizationalcoaches7072 I think one can make a strong argument in Sisko's favour and I would not say you were objectively wrong. It's all a matter of personal preference. Nor would I claim to have sufficient mastery of the source material that my word be accepted as law.

Agreed. Everyone is flawed and has flaws at the end of the day

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@@dantsem2640 What confuses you about the above comment?

Janeway deserves #2 over Kirk. He’s too impulsive and she was calculating. But that’s also due to the release time periods and maturation of the ST universe.

@@bent404 Completely agree. Janeway was a far better captain than Kirk, although I love him immensely too.

@@bent404 Frankly Janeway is too high. It was her fault her crew got stuck in the Delta Quadrant to begin with.

Yes it changed about the 3rd season? I found it an amusing ditty.

@@fredkelly6953 I love the Enterprise Theme :-)

cause ds9 was a rip off of Babylon5, though I do actually like it!

Snowwie I also liked enterprise I though the series final was great it wasn’t until years later I read about all the hostilely it created😳

Hmm, Not a Shocker At All, (Lol)

Shut up Wesley!

@@vornamenachname4232 lol crusher sucks. I am not him haha

@Jim Barrows lol, never touched one in my life mate.

@@Neurolytik Janeway also got her crew stuck in the Delta Quadrant for 7 years and VIOLATED THE PRIME DIRECTIVE TO DO SO..

People dont give Janeway enough Credit

@@TyMarshall007 You're right ! And I'm also sad that Archer is so underrated ...

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Cute

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ModerusPrime almost unsubbed over it.

That and Sisko above Janeway

With Vulcan logic?

Easy; out of every 100 similarity units, there needs to be at least 25 difference units to balance them out.

Agreed!! Every difference would create an undetermined amount of different situations!! Who came up with that number anyway??? Never heard of it until now.

@@DD-eight From my understanding, the 25% it was for copyrights and legal purposes. They had to make it at least 25% different than the prime timeline in order to make the movie. Everything Kelvin sux anyways.

Factually inaccurate statement, but thanks for playing.

STD is sexually transmitted disease. Star Trek Discovery is cinematically transmitted disease. Both are horrible.

@@random_eskimo_in_the_rockies Sorry, just for Christopher Pike I'm glad this series exist.

Factually accurate statement, thanks for your honesty.

100% Facts

THANK YOU. Janeway is definitely not top five material, might put her around seventh?

I agree

I have to agree. I loved Voyager and I adore Janeway, but Sisko had a skillset that she didn't have.

Picard had the benefit of more seasons to do more bedding, but yeah, Kirk is surprisingly deep in quite a few episodes. In one of the original pilot episodes, they say Kirk used to be a nervous bookworm before his friend Gary Mitchel turned him around

Well, that's just from what we've seen, right? I believe what they could get away with showing in the 90s was more than what they could get away with in the 60s.

This statement exactly.

@@LickMyRainbow77 I would also add that just as Picard had his blindspot (the Borg), Kirk had his (the Klingons and the death of his son). And both had complex character arcs dealing with those blind spots. I would personally say that I preferred the Kirk arc in terms of character development, but that is a tough call.

There irony is, the top four at one time or another almost all sacrificed their crews at least once. Sisko, well the war (then offed a Romulan Senator for good measure), Picard almost blew up the Enterprise at least 3 times got a new ship then almost blew that one up, Kirk...he did blow up his ship, and Janeway wipped out a timeline of her crew just to "save" it.

Brannon Braga couldn't stand the theme. He wanted to use the U2 song "It's a Beautiful Day," but didn't want any royalty issues. I actually find the theme uplifting and optimistic. Good one for a group of explorers on an untested prototype ship.

25% digs are totally valid, its contractually not real Star Trek, the fact that STD also inverts the spirit of Star Trek... ugh. As for "Faith of the Heart", it's worthy to be mentioned how this was not a fully appreciated theme, and while I found it inspirational, it was also, annoying, and they made it worse one they sped it up.

That song nearly ruined the series. The worst.

They said at a convention that they are thinking about giving him his own series

The fact that the actor slept in a pick up truck does not make it a better captain, but I understand what you are trying to say!

Janeway is my favourite of the bunch, or at least the same tier as Picard, but I don't think you can put her ahead of Picard or Kirk because of what they did for the franchise. I really liked season 1 Kirk, but season 2 and 3 Kirk was unbearable. Season 2 and 3 Kirk might even be my least favourite of the 5 main captains, except maybe season 4-7 Sisko - not so much the fault of the acting (as it was with Shatner in 2 and 3 TOS), but the mid to late series writing for his character was atrocious.

you can thank the Enterprise haters for it

discover/pickard are not prime though . . . this needs to be recognized

TOS and Discovery are the same timeline and therefore the same Pike

@@coreymicallef365 True alas. In a way both spin-offs (Kelvin and Discovery) attempt to flesh out a fascinating character that we only got glimpses of in TOS (and never again referred to in canon alas; though wasn't there a ship named after him at one point even if not in canon?). I was always intrigued by the Pike we met in the Menagerie and Cage. A thoughtful, passionate captain who cared deeply for his crew and was very clear-headed, brave, and resourceful. I love the crippled Pike we see as well. Even when against his own best interests, he votes against Spock -- I'm assuming because it's his duty. And let's not forget how he got that way: saving the lives of others. The glimpse we get is of a captain (and Hunter played the role brilliantly) that is every bit as outstanding as Kirk, Picard, Sisko or Janeway. I get the same impression about Captain Rachel Garrett of Enterprise-C. Again, another amazing captain that we only get a taste of. But the real question: What about Captain April? :)

@Jim Barrows a murderer? Oh please, he observed all the laws of war to the letter, and his actions were a proportionate response to earlier hostile actions. He stopped a genocide before it started.

@@coreymicallef365 Quick question. I'm just refreshing my memory re-watching the video and Wesley Crusher is stated as being given the position of acting captain. When did this occur? I remember the episode where he takes over engineering and declares himself acting captain, but that's not an official appointment. Was there another time Wes took over?

@@philiptite1082 I have no clue, my memory of TNG is fairly spotty, especially with the early seasons. Google was no help either, maybe have a look through the wiki.

And let's not forget when Picard was ASSIMILATED and became Locutus he was responsible for the death of gazillions!