Favorite Supporting Starfleet Captain
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^IIRC, said instance was part of an alternate timeline that Harry Kim worked to avoid/erase.
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Correct, but that doesn't necessarily mean he was interested in starship command. The red uniform of TNG/DS9/VOY seemed to have other functions besides sitting in the big chair (or being groomed for it). Geordi may have been interested in learning as much about starship operations as he could (similar to Chekov), which explains why he spent so much time on the bridge during the first season before switching to engineering.
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Sulu and Riker were helmsmen. It's not clear what Kirk's position might have been as a junior officer. Clark Terrell's backstory suggests he may have been a helmsman, although he also studied xenobiology at the Academy and may have been a science officer before switching to the command track.
Will Decker and Bejamin Sisko came up through engineering before securing command positions. Spock and Janeway were science officers.
In any case, it's impossible to know what Geordi's ultimate career goals may have been before he moved over to engineering. He may have been on track to get a starship command later in his career, but we'll never know.
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We'll never know, but we did find out in All Good Things that prior to joining the Enterprise, he impressed Picard by working overnight on a very minor problem with a shuttle. So whatever his career goals were/are/will be, he was certainly performing engineering duties (on his own time?) while wearing red and presumably as a helmsman as a young officer.
^^Actually, that wasn't AGT that was revealed in. I think it was The Next Phase.
I stand corrected, but I really like that neat factoid about Geordi.
Should he count? Yes, I know in line to take command of the Intrepid, but he was killed before he officially did take command. Or are you referencing the novels?
He has a backstory? From the novels?
Where was it established that Decker was in engineering?
Yup. David Mack establishes that he was a double-major in xenobiology and impulse propulsion systems at Starfleet Academy, although it's not clear what position(s) he held before becoming the first officer and eventually the captain of the USS Sagittarius.
In TWOK, Terrell mentions that he's never met Kirk when questioned by Khan; ironically, non-canon sources suggest that the two were in the same class at the Academy (graduating in 2255). We've no way of knowing how big Academy classes are, but it's a wonder two people who eventually rose to starship command never crossed paths until thirty years after graduation--unless Terrell was studying another subject, in which case he'd have had different classes and assignments than Kirk.
Were one to stick to canon, Terrell's involvement in Project Genesis could have been for a number of reasons. His having been a science officer would certainly work, as would a background in intelligence. OTOH, he could have been on the command track his entire career and moved up the ladder working various odd jobs on starship bridges.
Same deal as above. Christopher's Ex Machina establishes that Decker had been an engineer before switching to command, which partially explains why he was so hands-on with the refit of Enterprise (aside from being her captain, of course). Some of the source materials for Phase II mention that he had been first officer of the USS Boston, although it's not clear what he was doing before that or why he switched to command.
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My favorite supporting captains are generally antagonists or bad guys. I would list Sulu and Riker, but I consider them cast members.
Captain Jellico: Ronny Cox. Do I need to say more?
Captain Ronald Tracy: Definitely the polar opposite of Kirk.
Garth: Technically not a captain at the time we saw him.
Commodore Decker: great actor.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Robau and he is a good supporting captain (at least character wise), but you can't say he was badass, really. He basically just surrenders, beams over, then gets killed.
Captain Jellico: Ronny Cox. Do I need to say more?
Captain Ronald Tracy: Definitely the polar opposite of Kirk.
Garth: Technically not a captain at the time we saw him.
Commodore Decker: great actor.
Don't get me wrong, I liked Robau and he is a good supporting captain (at least character wise), but you can't say he was badass, really. He basically just surrenders, beams over, then gets killed.
But Orci kept referring to him as a badass in all the pre-Trek XI interviews. Seriously, that's how the whole "Badass Robau" thing started.
Yes. Orcii referred to a "badass captain" in an interview, the fan community ran with it, and in the movie the character is basically a very confident red shirt. Been a running joke for like six years now.
