Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard?

[DataLoreSpock]

Re: Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard

Oh yeah.
You can not forget those Romulan encounters.

 

[DataLoreSpock]

Re: Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard

What about the double encounters with Kahn?
What would that count as.
Not really a war but could be counted as a threat.
His intentions could have been towards the Earth again.
Or not.
(shrug)

 

[DataLoreSpock]

Re: Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard

It probably boils down to personal intrest.

 

[MacLeod]

Re: Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard

It's pretty much a tossup in book. Kirk was a charismatic butt kicker who could play diplomat when required (Devil in the Dark) while Picard was a thoughtful diplomat who could kick butt when required (Yesterday's Enterprise). I think they were both ideal captains for their respective eras. Kirk, the interstellar cowboy during the transition between the "wild west" formative years of the Federation and it's more stable TNG period. Picard was the thoughtul intellectual for the more settled (until the Dominion War) period.

I'd hardly call the mid-late 24th century stable, lets examine it compared against the mid-late 23rd cenury.

Wars

Mid 23rd Century

Federation - Sheliak Conflict. Circa 2255
Federation - Klingon War. 2267

Mid 24th Century

Federation-Cardassian War. ended circa 2367
Federation Dominion War. 2373-2375
Federation-Klingon War. 2372-2373
Federation-Tzenkethi War. c2360's
Federation-Talarian conflicts c late 2350's

All in all I think I'll take the stability of Kirk's era.

Um, you left out:

23rd Century:
Romulan incursion (2266)
Gorn Incursion (2266)
Federation Espionage Incident at Romulan Border (2268)
Tholian Incident (2268)
And there was a mention of another Fed/Klingon War circa. the 2290ies (Referenced in the second season TNG Episode "The Emmissary")

Just saying...

I did specify wars, not incursions/incidents.

I could have mentioned. Borg Incursion 2364, 2366, 2373(?)

All in all it appears as if the mid 23rd Century was a safer time in which to live. Even though that seemed to be a time of expansion for the Federation whilst the mid 24th centruy seems to be more a time of consolodation(for lack of a better term)

 

[DataLoreSpock]

Re: Question Who In Your Opinion Is The Better Captain: Kirk or Picard

All sorts of incidents and wars should be accounted for anyway.
The Borg Incursions could be the equivalent to a small war.