Who is your favorite character?

Doctor McCoy! I loved how he just balanced everything with Kirk and Spock.

 

Bones.

 

It's actually Sulu, I love his energy in the show and I think he can keep a serious composure and intelligence while also having fun in a way that can be rare to see in other characters. I also have to say that George Takei is a massive inspiration to me as a gay person myself so it's always great to see someone I relate to on that level being a fun character to watch and in 2nd I would definitely have Kirk just because he's the flagship man and my favourite captain in all of Trek, I love his strong command and the balance he brings to being a boring bureaucrat and a loose cannon, I don't think being 100% of either would work well so his balance is good.

 

Pretty much in rank order: Kirk, Spock, Scotty. I like McCoy, but he is too often a dick to Spock for me to rank him higher.

 

James T. Kirk. The character portrayed in the TOS, not the fratboy, rebel-without-a-cause, rule-breaking, arrogant, stereotype that formed the basis for the JJ Abrams film.

Bones is my second favorite character. The way De Kelly could hit his lines was perfect. Spock is third and Sulu is 4th-he is my favorite secondary character. I think he could have made a convincing Spock.

 

If we are taking into account TOS only, then I'd have to admit that Spock is my forbidden love.

He is not the best character in the show objectively speaking, but still... It's hard for me to like another character of the cast more than Spock

 

Isn't TOS Kirk a fratboy rebel-without-a-cause rule-breaking and arrogant as well? I mean, if you look at him with 60s society behavioural standards he is just like that.
Kelvin Kirk is the same man but more in-tone with the early 2000's society standards, at least that's what I think

 

I'm fresh off watching the first season of TOS. Kirk was more serious in those early episodes and Shatner gave the character an almost world-weariness. Early Kirk was all about being an effective and focused Starship Captain. He was Mr. by-the-book in episodes like Court Martial. It's true that the character always had a eye for women and other elements were introduced to the character within TOS.

I happen to be a big fan of Chris Pine and so my criticism of Kirk's portrayal in JJ Star Trek doesn't reflect on the actor at all.

 

I agree on that. Chris pine is not exactly a Shatner lookalike, but it is a good Kirk like actor. Same goes for Quinto spock, I like him more than the discovery actor

 

Not even close.

Right from the start, in the second pilot, the first with Shatner, Mitchel referred to Kirk as a stack of books with legs.

In TOS Kirk was very by-the-book, very professional and not a rule breaking rebel. That perception of the character really didn't come about until the movies and has snowballed out of proportion considering how many time he actually breaks, or even bends, the rules.

 

Now that you mention, beside his cowboy attitude (which is arrogant, at least to me) most of what makes kirk a bad boy comes from the movies, where he disobeys almost every order except when it comes to save whales (still he broke temporal laws by going to the past).

At least if you think that sleeping with alien women is not breaking the first directive

 

In a galaxy where humans interact with, and serve with members of other species, in a... um... United Federation of Planets, no, I don't consider the occasional romantic dalliance with a female from another world to violate the Prime Directive.

I might suggest you read up on what Star Trek's Prime Directive actually is though.

 

Number One from The Cage, the best dang first officer of the whole franchise.

 

Uhura! Pretty sure I've got all of her lines throughout the series memorized.

 

Scotty
Bones
Koloth
Kang
Kor
Chekhov
Riley
Uhura
Robert April
Pike

 

As a kid, of course Kirk. Nowadays, it's really hard to pick one out of the main three.

Kirk has relatable moments and of course, since he's the main character and hero, it's easy to want to be in his shoes. But sometimes he comes across as a Marty Stu, so perfect, always having the right answer. That's fine for the time, but in a modern context it gets kind of old. He's a little too perfect. But he's like Indiana Jones too.

Spock on the other hand is captivating on screen, but sometimes he's a dick when talking down about humans. But he's also compassionate at times for other life forms, and always has some interesting stuff to say.

McCoy is the least "cool" one of the three, but I find him to be the easiest to relate to at times. In "The City at the Edge of Forever" it was his interaction with Edith that I believed in more, and was the best performance. McCoy being the Lt. Ripley role in "Dagger of the Mind," was great.

It's difficult to pick a favorite character here. I guess I have to ultimately go with Spock, since I always enjoy seeing how he perceives and reacts to things as someone who's emotionless and lives by pure logic.

 

Koloth over Kor and Kang? Koloth was a bumbling fool who lost to tribbles (not Kirk as his noble adversary), and probably started the tribble plague in Klingon space, too boot. Technically, both Kor and Kang "physically defeated" Kirk but final victory was snatched by external forces.

I mostly agree with this analysis, but Kirk was less than perfect (near awful) and the butt of jokes in The Trouble With Tribbles. Only through a comedy of errors was the day saved.