So who is it? Who's the best close-in fighter/handheld weapons fighter/thinking, tactical fighter? I am excluding 4 individuals/types from this discussion: Data/Lore and all other Soong androids, and Mudd androids, and Ruk, because they have nearly unbeatable advantages, NuTrek Khan, same thing, any Changeling, same thing, and the Doctor/any photonic, whom we have seen can, reasonably enough, take unlimited physical punishment without harm.
Otherwise anyone is game. Could be a Jem'hadar. Could be Worf. Me, I say James Kirk. I think a dirty-fighting Kirk COULD beat Spock. And I am pretty sure he'd just embarrass Worf.
Winning is what's important. It doesn't matter how unconventional or dirty it gets. Eg, KIrk is better than the Gorn, even though the Gorn was obviously so much stronger (but slow as honey pouring in reverse). Kirk won, and that's what matters.
Otherwise anyone is game. Could be a Jem'hadar. Could be Worf. Me, I say James Kirk. I think a dirty-fighting Kirk COULD beat Spock. And I am pretty sure he'd just embarrass Worf.
Winning is what's important. It doesn't matter how unconventional or dirty it gets. Eg, KIrk is better than the Gorn, even though the Gorn was obviously so much stronger (but slow as honey pouring in reverse). Kirk won, and that's what matters.
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