Instances of Captains "owning" their opponents.

[Terran_Empire]

Throughout the universe of Star Trek there have been times when the acting captains took a hopeless situation and completely reversed it, foilded the plans of their enemies and walked, talked and looked like badasses the whole while. Pardon the net-talk, but that is what I mean by "own".

My vote would be the TOS episode "A Taste of Armageddon". Kirk keeps his cool during the whole episode, trashes the reasoning of the two waring planets and their conclusion that virtual war was a more civilized method of conflict, destroyed a handful of suicide chambers after escaping captivity, practically beat up 5-8 guards throughout the course of the episode by myself, went from being held at gunpoint to threatening to rain down hell and a half on their planet with impunity. He practically ended a 500 year war by myself and saved millions of lives while educating the leaders of these worlds what the word "war" really means. It really showed Kirk at his best.

What about you guys?

 

[JRoss]

Jellico in Chain of Command. He is given faulty intelligence that leads to Picard's capture and a diplomatic disaster, yet he outsmarts the Cardassians anyway.

 

[JB2005]

Picard in Ensigns of Command!

 

[Deks]

Janeway in 'Scorpion' when she knew the Borg would go back on their deal after the 8472 conflict was done and severed 7's link to the collective.

Again, Janeway in 'Unimatrix 0' when she destroyed it to prevent the Borg from doing it.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Sisko in "For the Uniform."

Also, how about a non-Trek example?

"What you fail to realize is that my ship...is dragging mines."

 

[F. King Daniel]

Archer in "Zero Hour"

*beep* *steps behind pillar*

BANG!

*steps out from blood-splattered pillar*

 

[Satyrquaze]

Picard in "The Defector".

Tomalok: "I urge you, Captain Picard. Surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause.
Picard: "If the cause is just and honourable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalok?"
Tomalok: "I expected more from you than an idle threat, Picard."
Picard: "And you shall have it."
Picard: "Mr. Worf."
Worf: "Aye, Sir." (Worf smiles)
(We see three Klingon Birds of Prey decloak surrounding the two Romulan Warbirds)
(Tomalok blinks)
Tomalok: "... You will still not survive our assualt."
Picard: "And you will not survive ours. Shall we die together?"

 

[T'Girl]

The Romulan Commander in "Data's Day." There that stunning moment when Picard realizes that the Romulans have completely walked him around in a circle, and have just handed him his hat.

He was completely powerless and the Romulans didn't even bother firing on him.

It wasn't part of their plan.

 

[Satyrquaze]

^Flag on the play.

 

[7thsealord]

The endgame in 'The Ensigns Of Command' - Picard stopped playing nice and used the treaty to pwn the Sheliak. They changed their tune pretty dern fast. THAT is diplomacy.

 

[7thsealord]

Also, how about a non-Trek example?

"What you fail to realize is that my ship...is dragging mines."

Always a favourite of mine.

 

[JRoss]

Crichton committing to using Wormhole weapons to destroy the Peacekeeper and Scarran commands even at the cost of his family.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Gul Dukat here

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7AvdDMDIn8[/yt]

 

[Kytee]

While they were more allies then enemies , Archer really out thought Sharn in Proving Ground when their interests did not line up.

-Kytee

 

[tafkats]

The end of "The Thaw."

CLOWN: "I'm afraid."
JANEWAY: "I know."

 

[JB2005]

The end of "The Thaw."

CLOWN: "I'm afraid."
JANEWAY: "I know."

That's a good one - there's something quite sadistic about the way Mulgrew plays that line!

 

[Vanyel]

The good ones from Trek seem to be mostly taken. So I'll use this one from Babylon 5. Great speech, great battle (Look at the Youtube related links and you'll see the whole fight) and Ivanova is beautiful and deadly.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaSmassvv4w[/yt]

 

[sbk1234]

Also, how about a non-Trek example?

"What you fail to realize is that my ship...is dragging mines."

That's so familiar, but I can't place it. Where's it from?

 

[Kytee]

That's so familiar, but I can't place it. Where's it from?

That one was from Galaxy Quest, great line in an entertaining movie imo

-Kytee

 

[You_Will_Fail]

"What you fail to realize is that my ship...is dragging mines."