Best First Officer in the history of Trek

[Sci-fi fan]

Top notch supermodel walk, taller than a mountain, lean like a stick

Extremely reserved and well thought, counts his words

Original alien species, and an odd one

 

[cultcross]

Beating Spock and Major Kira? Good luck.

However, he's better than Chuckles.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Beating Spock and Major Kira? Good luck.

However, he's better than Chuckles.

What about the Beard?

 

[Jedman67]

Riker was a lousy first officer.

 

[galad2003]

Um no. While the acotr does a great job and the alien species is unique and different, I hate Saru. He is a coward and has no business being a Starfleet officer and no way would I want to server with him much less under him. Saru should be a non-Starfleet scientist and have no command responsibilities.

 

[Michael]

Love Saru and Doug Jones, but I don't like him better than any of the other first officers (yet).

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I'd probably say Riker was the best, but if I was a captain and needed a first officer, I'm takin' Kira.

I wanna like Chakotay but his mom, I mean captain really ignored him mostly. She shoulda just had no first officer, just a captain understudy.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Saru may be the tallest first officer canonically, but hardly the best. He'd be more useful as Chief Reacher of Things On High Shelves.

 

[MacLeod]

I think I've got to give this one to Spock for being the best first officer that we've seen.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Riker was a lousy first officer.

Riker might have a nit to pick with that statement.

 

[dahj]

Spock is the "best first officer in the fleet" according to canon.

 

[the Sisko]

As the show is not bridge centered, I have not seen enough of Saru's work onscreen to say he's done a superlative job under Lorca. He admittedly has not been consulted on major personnel decisions. That bring said, most of Discovery's value in turning the tide of the war was done offscreen.

He did well commanding the ship though, with his tactical skills in determining that Lorca was on the shuttle being a masterpiece. This is somewhat offset by him losing the Tartigrade through not following the advice of his people closest to the situation. His performance on the away mission is hard to determine as he went through a major brain injury.

 

[Noname Given]

Mr. Spock <--- All others pale in comparison.

 

[XCV330]

I don't recall Saru sticking his hands in a reactor core to save his fellow crew.

Nope, pretty hard to pass the Spock test.

 

[Ronald Held]

Besides being the best first officer in the fleet he was also chief of Sciences.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I'd probably say Riker was the best, but if I was a captain and needed a first officer, I'm takin' Kira.

I wanna like Chakotay but his mom, I mean captain really ignored him mostly. She shoulda just had no first officer, just a captain understudy.

Having XOs that didn't have their own position on the bridge didn't work dramatically for either Riker or Chakotay. They ended up relating obvious orders, making them just butlers to the ship.

At least Frakes made his mark behind the camera.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

You mean Burnham isn't the best first officer in the fleet? :P

 

[BillJ]

Spock. How is this even a question?

 

[Borgminister]

Spock and Data, probably 1a and 1b, although the former if pressed.

 

[BillJ]

Why isn't Martin Madden getting any love?!?