Defining Moment For Each Captain

[suarezguy]

Agreed on "The Corbomite Manuever" for Kirk. "RISK. IS. OUR. BUSINESS!!!!!", though memorable and even close, was going quite a bit much even for him.

For Picard I think I would actually go with real unusual choice, with when he is willing to go opposite of Kirk. "Q Who", "You wanted me to say I need you? I NEED YOU!" He is great and the show is great because he is willing to admit, the show is willing to have him have to admit, that he can't win them all, sometimes you can't, you just have to make deal, compromise even when you really don't want to.

Sisko probably his personal outrage at Eddington, "You betrayed your uniform!"

Janeway probably kind of not herself but the end of "The '37s" when apparently absolutely no one wants to leave the ship, they are all completely behind and for her.

 

[Airin]

For Kirk, I'd go for the scene in The Search for Spock:

STYLES: Kirk! If you do this, you'll never sit in the Captain's chair again.
KIRK (while sitting in the chair): Warp speed.

 

[Farscape One]

That is a good choice for Sisko. Another would be when Sisko is formally reprimanding Worf in "Change of Heart" for disobeying orders and abandoning a critically important mission that he could have completed. Sisko is a real CO not a cheerleader who'll forgive anything from his officers.

I like that scene a lot, too. Sisko lets Worf know that professionally he will likely never get a command of his own and he was wrong. But then he let's him know, on a personal level, Sisko understands why Worf did it and that he'd do the same thing if it was Jennifer.

That's great leadership there.

 

[at Quark's]

My choices aren't necessarily 'heroic' but I think they exemplify the character of these persons, or what they grappled with.

Kirk: I don't believe in a no-win scenario.

(Even though I don't agree with the statement as such, I believe they actually do exist. I therefore take his statement to mean: 'don't assume too quickly there really isn't a solution in a scenario that seems no-win at first sight; an unorthodox solution might exist.' )

Picard:So many 'moral' quotes to choose from. I think I'd go with a moment such as "You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose." or "There can be no justice as long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

Sisko: I felt the moment he begs the Prophets for help in Sacrifice of Angels might have been a defining moment - at least in a way, to me it felt as a moment he finally surrendered to them and fully accepted his role and his dependency upon them, even if 'a penance had to be exacted'. But I'd have to think about it, and perhaps I can come up with a 'better' moment.

Janeway: This choice may be a little odd, because it isn't a 'great' moment as such.

The nightmare Janeway has in Waking Moments, where she sees dead crewmen in the mess hall, and Neelix creepily tells her 'you didn't get them home in time'. In my view, this represents one of her deepest fears, a (nearly) crushing burden of responsibility of responsibility she must have felt over all those years, even if she didn't mention it often, and even if she went all over the place with her actions. Or perhaps she did so exactly because of it.