What scifi captain/colonel/flag officer for president.

Kira Nerys. Anybody else want to contribute female candidates?? (Besides Temis )

 

How about Sam Carter, Kathryn Janeway, Susan Ivanova and Erika Hernandez?

Weir wouldn't fit into the categories listed under the title, but we could add her to the list

 

Jean-Luc Picard
Ben Sisko

 

since when does experience count for anything?

 

Gaius Baltar

Free threesomes for all upon election

 

So?

The OP isn't asking who has the most experience, who served in office previously, or who would be most qualified for the job. He's asking which CO/flag officer would we pick for president?

All that aside, Laura Roslin has been President of the Colonies for a while, as were Gaius Baltar, Tom Zarek, and Lee Adama for intermediate time periods throughout the show. Does their experience not qualify? Or is John Sheridan the only "right" answer?

Finally, experience or not, it doesn't change the fact that yes, Sheridan was an egocentric blowhard.

 

Adama from the new Galactica show. If "the look" doesn't shut up his opposition, a flashlight will.

 

See, this is another reason, in-universe, to vote for the man.

Amen to that!

 

I'd pick Sheridan over Roslin any day. When was the last time Roslin said anything as memorable as, "Now get the hell out of our galaxy?"

 

Besides, Roslin's not a captain/colonel/flag officer (Commander-in-Chief doesn't count).

 

President Sheridan, as depicted in Season Five of B5 and in the later TV movies, wouldn't have got re-elected once in any functioning democracy - and would have been lucky not to get impeached within his first term.
Just to run through his high crimes and misdemeanors, or silly arrogances that the media would pursue him over, there's...
Appointing his ex-wife to a key command (Babylon 5) without publically admitting his connection to her (or even to his friends and colleagues for several episodes).
Appointing an alcoholic who's recently been erratic due to severe mental trauma (and who later messes up badly while drunk) as head of Alliance Intelligence.
And, from the point of view of getting on the bad side of the media... refusing to do interviews, except when there's an opportunity to humiliate them (Teryl Rothery's character in Voices in the Dark).
There's more, I'm sure, but any of those are enough to turn him into a lame duck without the support from other politicians he needs to actually do anything as the fuss/hostility goes on.

 

Thank you.

 

Roslin over Sheridan?!? At least Sheridan *tried* to stick to his principles, unlike Madam President who wouldn't let anything stand in her way including election fraud.

Sheridan's got an advisory board with people on it who've disagreed with him before where Roslin doesn't consult with anybody but Adama who's every bit as ruthless as she is. I'd say the egocentric goes the other way here.

Jan

 

Because we can't repel a candidate of that magnitude.

 

And look what it got them. President Gaius Baltar. Who, though legally elected, led the Colonials to what could have wound up being their ultimate demise, all on a scare tactic to win an election.

The president of the Colonies also has an advisory board -- its called the Quorum of Twelve, and it has disagreed with each President since the beginning of the series.

Call it what you want ("ruthless") but Adama has kept his people alive. As I said earlier, he's able to step aside from a situation and do the right thing even if he disagrees with it (Making Roslin admit to stealing the election, voting 'not guilty' in Baltar's trial).

Please note: My vote is still for Bill and Lee Adama, as I indicated in my original post.

I only mentioned Roslin because Neroon seems to think that the only qualifying factor here should be "previous experience on the job," and as Roslin has just that, I referenced her.

 

Easy pick here ... Susan Ivanova. She's strong-willed, does not back down from a fight, and has a conscience, something she lets guide her choices. She will listen to the opinions of those around her, but doesn't let others make choices for her. She's basically Picard with boobies and fighting skills.