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Favorite Guest Starship Commanders, All Series!

OhZedMasTree said:
I want a Bozeman series with Kelsey Grammar reprising his role as Captain Morgan Bateson. Just think, Frasier in space! The possibilities truly are endless!

And his brother, Niles Bateson, as the chef.

"Morgan, er, 'Captain' -- you really must try the raspberry truffles."

"Replicated?"

"Bite your tongue, sir!"

--Ted
 
The unnamed alien captain played by Casey Biggs in Damages. Still wonder whatever happened to him. He should have had his chance for revenge.

And of course Martok and Shran. :D Wish they coulda met...well, there's always time travel...
 
I have been remiss in forgetting one of the best guest starship commanders -- the Unnamed Romulan Commander from "Balance of Terror"! As played by Mark Lenard, one of the shrewdest, most likable of all the enemy commanders.

As an aside, I always found it odd that the very first two Romulan Commanders weren't given names -- Joanna Linville was also simply addressed as "Commander" throughout the ep, "The Enteprise Incident." Yet some of their flunkies -- most notably Tal and Decius -- were named.

Red Ranger
 
TG TheRedNosed said:
OhZedMasTree said:
I want a Bozeman series with Kelsey Grammar reprising his role as Captain Morgan Bateson. Just think, Frasier in space! The possibilities truly are endless!

And his brother, Niles Bateson, as the chef.

"Morgan, er, 'Captain' -- you really must try the raspberry truffles."

"Replicated?"

"Bite your tongue, sir!"

--Ted

Also starring Counselor Daphne Moon, slinky sex bomb Chief Medical Officer Roz Doyle, and the captain's crusty dad, Admiral Martin Bateson and his space hound, Eddie! :lol: -- RR
 
Captain Garrett - TNG
Durgo for sentimental reasons - TNG
The Romulan Commander Enterprise: Incidents - TOS

I'm sure there will be a couple of others, but these for now off the top of my head.
 
Interesting that a lot of the Trek fans I talk to online who are in some way tied to a military or other all love Jellico, and consider him to be the best commanding officer portrayed on TNG, or possibly even on any Trek series.


Ironically, as a civilian through-and-through, I had not quite recognised this when I first saw Chain of Command, but now looking back I see what they are getting at.


But then, a lot of the military people may not like the idea of turning Galaxy-class ships into mobile towns (with families aboard) - though to be fair, Picard was against the idea at the beginning, and never quite warmed up to it that much.

Plus, it's hard to argue when what would seemingly be a logical course of action in many of the dangerous missions the D found itself in (separate the saucer and park it over some out-of-the-way world, or hide it in an asteroid belt at low power, while using the stardrive section to go do the fighting) was quite often ignored.

(For example, would it have been safer for the families aboard in BoBW to transfer command and let the stardrive go and draw the Borg cube away from that nebula? They were clearly after Picard himself, after all...)


But my personal fave guest CO?


Hmm...


I can't really think of one in particular.


Sorry.
 
Tomolok

the baddest Romulan in the Galaxy
pity the actor died from lung cancer a few years back
also the same dude who played G'kar for those B5 fans playing at home
 
[*] Lieutenant-Commander Elizabeth Shelby, from TNG's "Best Of Both Worlds" and "Chain Of Command".
[*] Captain Morgan "Bulldog" Bateson from TNG's "Cause & Effect".
 
Commodore Wesley... obviously a great starship commander because he went against orders and took a chance on Kirk.
 
hellsgate said:
[*] Lieutenant-Commander Elizabeth Shelby, from TNG's "Best Of Both Worlds" and "Chain Of Command".
[*] Captain Morgan "Bulldog" Bateson from TNG's "Cause & Effect".
Shelby was only in Best of Both Worlds.
 
I like Morgan Woodward's Captain Ron Tracey from The Omega Glory, it would have been interesting to see his character before he went off the rails.
 
JD said:
hellsgate said:
[*] Lieutenant-Commander Elizabeth Shelby, from TNG's "Best Of Both Worlds" and "Chain Of Command".
[*] Captain Morgan "Bulldog" Bateson from TNG's "Cause & Effect".
Shelby was only in Best of Both Worlds.

not only that, she wasn't a starship commander.
 
Red Ranger said:
Among my faves who died and so couldn't appear again are: Commodore Decker from TOS ep "The Doomsday Machine;" Captain Dathon from TNG ep, "Darmok;" and Captain Ransom from VOY ep "The Equinox."

I would echo those three, and add Shran (awesome character) and the Romulan captain from Balance of Terror.
 
comsol said:
I like Morgan Woodward's Captain Ron Tracey from The Omega Glory, it would have been interesting to see his character before he went off the rails.

Agreed. Another intesting bit of trivia: He's the only officer that appeared on TOS where you can positively identify he has the actual rank of captain, by looking at the rank braid on his sleeves. It's identical to Kirk's. There were other captains not shown, like the named Captain Harrison of the Excalibur in "The Ultimate Computer," and presumabely the captsins of the Hood and Potemkin -- Commodore Wesley was in charge of the Lexington as well as the attack force for the war games. -- RR
 
Frosty the Vorta said:
The unnamed alien captain played by Casey Biggs in Damages. Still wonder whatever happened to him. He should have had his chance for revenge.

Perhaps, after the Xindi threat ended, Starfleet sent a ship back and returned the aliens' warp drive to them? Their course could be easily plotted, and at impulse speeds they couldn't have gotten far.
 
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