Picard's worst choice?
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Strings: Agreed. Don't mind Bintak. He has something like Tourette's Syndrome -- whenever he hears the words, "Patrick Stewart" or "Jean-Luc Picard," he curses! Stewette's Syndrome, perhaps?
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1- Not turning Hugh into a walking computer virus
2- Not immediately killing the Crystalline Entity
3- Making Admiral Necheyev angry
2- Not immediately killing the Crystalline Entity
3- Making Admiral Necheyev angry
"Clues". Picard agreed to the mass brain washing all too quickly. None of the crew could refuse it? I would have. They tell him they can destroy the ship and he never questions it. Kirk would never have done this, he would have argued and make them realize the error of their ways.
Picking a relatively young, inexperienced Alaskan as his second-in-command.
At least one person got it.
Well she is his great great great grandmother.
Picard's worst choice was not wiping out the Borg with that [neurlytic pathogen?] disease thingy in "I, Borg."
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RobertScorpio
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Today, I watched "The Hunted".
It's a good episode, but surely has to be a violation of the Prime Directive when Picard agrees to capture Roga Danar for the Angosian government.
The Angosians weren't even Federation members, so Picard really shouldn't have interfered in their internal matters.
It's a good episode, but surely has to be a violation of the Prime Directive when Picard agrees to capture Roga Danar for the Angosian government.
The Angosians weren't even Federation members, so Picard really shouldn't have interfered in their internal matters.
If they asked the Federation to wipe out a terrorist group on their planet and the Federation refused, I guess that would have complicated their entry too.
Picking a relatively young, inexperienced Alaskan as his second-in-command.
hahaha!!
Brilliant.
Homeward.
Nikolai Rozhenko was 100% correct in trying to rescue those people and their culture, and Picard was willing to let their entire civilization be eradicated because of a document, an abstraction.
Poor moment for Picard.
Also, when they needed the medication in "The First Duty" they should have taken it without question-- and in "Justice" they should have just beamed Wesley off the planet and told them to screw off.
Strings: Agreed. Don't mind Bintak. He has something like Tourette's Syndrome -- whenever he hears the words, "Patrick Stewart" or "Jean-Luc Picard," he curses! Stewette's Syndrome, perhaps?
You are entitled to have fun at my expense about it, RR. I'd be a poor sport if I didn't admit it was funny as heck. Stewett's Syndrome or Picarditis? I've got a Star Trek skin disease! The cure, then, must be to drink Kirk-aide followed by a stiff Sisko soda chaser!!
Seriously, though, you have to be a really bad actor on film to make Captain Quantum Leapus look good.
Actually, I thought the stupidist thing Picard ever did was telling Q to get bent when he offered Picard one wish in "Q-Pid."
Picard could have asked Q to verbally tell him about the history of the Q Continuem. Wish gets used up and Q leaves you alone, and at the same time you get a non-Prime-directive-violating gain of precious INFORMATION that could not otherwise be obtained.
Picard could have asked Q to verbally tell him about the history of the Q Continuem. Wish gets used up and Q leaves you alone, and at the same time you get a non-Prime-directive-violating gain of precious INFORMATION that could not otherwise be obtained.
surely thats Archer!?
Strings: Agreed. Don't mind Bintak. He has something like Tourette's Syndrome -- whenever he hears the words, "Patrick Stewart" or "Jean-Luc Picard," he curses! Stewette's Syndrome, perhaps?
You are entitled to have fun at my expense about it, RR. I'd be a poor sport if I didn't admit it was funny as heck. Stewett's Syndrome or Picarditis? I've got a Star Trek skin disease! The cure, then, must be to drink Kirk-aide followed by a stiff Sisko soda chaser!!
Seriously, though, you have to be a really bad actor on film to make Captain Quantum Leapus look good.
Hey, it's all good, Bintak! Glad you're being a good sport about my jibes. Maybe Dr. Crusher can cure you with some magic potion that will make you adore Jean-Luc almost as much as she does. But I suspect you have a hidden man-crush on Patrick Stewart!
-- RRUh, I think you mean 'Code of Honor' with the medication thing - First Duty was the Starfleet Academy episode. (And, you know, it was actually a GOOD episode...)
I do agree with you, though, about Homeward. It's a small number of people, all of whom are going to die, and he'll let them for the sake of some directive, prime or not, that says 'thou shalt not interfere'? Definitely not Picard's shining moment.
Picard did the same thing in "Pen Pals." His willingness to let people die because a piece of paper said so was never one of his good qualities.
I know the worry is that their exposure to an alien culture will harm them, but really, how much worse could any such "harm" be than letting them die?
I know the worry is that their exposure to an alien culture will harm them, but really, how much worse could any such "harm" be than letting them die?
Worst Federation Captain ever.
I blame Phlox for setting Captain QL up as the Jean Luc example for letting people die, and suggesting its a good bureaucratic decision.
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