Janeway or Archer

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Who is the best Captain?

 

[GreenBlood]

Janeway gets my vote...but sometimes it depends on the episode.

 

[D Man]

Archer seemed like an indecisive wimp a lot of the time, whereas Janeway in the later years changed her motivations weekly. I think I'd go with Janeway overall, but episode by episode they both made some pretty awful and some pretty good decisions.

 

[Lynx]

Janeway, of course.

Archer doesn't even play in the same league.

 

[Dale]

Interesting circumstances each found themselves in. Janeway started out determined to uphold Starfleet protocols and philosophy in a wilderness and in the end found herself becoming a veritable Ripley (Alien), a mother wolf who would bend or break any rule or violate her own ethics in order to protect her brood.

Archer, meanwhile, similarly found himself in a wildnerness but had no paradigm from which to proceed except the Vulcan paradigm which he'd already largely rejected. He was forced to act as a pioneer in an ethical and tactical way, making it up as he went along. Given all that, I don't think he did the worst job. Too many people judge him against a future they already know but which he didn't.

Which was the better captain. Tough to say. I'd say overall (given his implied future) Archer was the more successful of the two. He did a very big thing while Janeway's accomplishment was much smaller... and don't tell me "she beat the Borg" because that was never implicitly stated or shown. She dealt them blow after blow, admittedly, but the foe remained after she brought her flock back to Earth.

 

[-Brett-]

Between those two? Janeway.

But then again, you're kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel with both of them.

 

[drasche]

Janeway would capture and beat the crap out of Archer, while his crew comes with a cunning plan, battles Voyager's and gets a half-dead captain back.

I vote Janeway.

 

[KayArr]

Enterprise is probably my favorite Trek series, but Janeway is hands-down the best captain...of them all, maybe. Certainly tops Archer.

 

[Orac Zen]

Janeway. Archer is amateur hour by comparison.

 

[Michael]

I seem to be one of the few people who think Archer was the better captain ...

 

[SFRabid]

Archer had to deal with time traveling aliens in those temporial stories we all hate.

Janeway resorted to time travel and became one of those temporial stories.

Archer started bad and ended good.

Janeway started good and ended bad.

I'll go with Archer.

 

[Outpost4]

Boy, I, too, would have to say Janeway, but only because she was a fully drawn character for the whole series. Archer was still a naive boy in seasons 1 and 2. Season 4 Archer vs. Janeway? I'd probably pick Archer, just because he didn't sound like a Munchkin. Follow the Yellow Brick Wormhole.

Agreed, this is not a great choice.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Janeway, if only because I'd rather have sex with her.

 

[Ethros]

Archie for me

 

[ZERO_of_ZERO]

Im not too familliar with Enterprise so:

Kathryn Kate Janeway-Mulgrew.

 

[STIntergalactic]

Wow, this is a hard question for me. For some reason I want to say Archer, I think I like him more overall. For better Captain, though, I think I have to go with Janeway. I'm not sure why, it's just what my gut tells me.

 

[Nedersong]

Archer doesn't exist, neither does that nameless show he was on.

 

[Captain Leslie]

Well...I'de sooner serve under Janeway....

 

[Michael]

Archer doesn't exist, neither does that nameless show he was on.

Nonsense.

 

[asdf1]

I kinda prefer Janeway, slightly more diplomatic and definitely more intelligent than that guy who kept getting beat up,

I loved ENT, but i was not a fan of Archer.