Top 5 most famous tacticians in UFP history?

[SpaceLama]

1. James T Kirk
2. Jean Luc Picard
3. Benjamin Sisko
4. Garth of Izar
5. William Riker

What do you think? Are these the most famous tacticians in UFP Starfleet history? Or are there others whos exploits are required reading at the academy, but we have not heard about?

 

[EmperorTiberius]

1. James T Kirk
2. Jean Luc Picard
3. Benjamin Sisko
4. Garth of Izar
5. William Riker

What do you think? Are these the most famous tacticians in UFP Starfleet history? Or are there others whos exploits are required reading at the academy, but we have not heard about?

I don't know about fame, but this is how I would order them according to their ability:

I would put Eddington ahead of all of them.

Riker ahead of Picard, Riker did beat him during war games after all + the Riker maneuver + escaping/destroying Romulans as a young officer + fighting the Borg. He seems to desplay ingunuity many times. The only questionable part is the loss of Enterprise? Were torpedos/guidence/targeting systems damanged? Why didn't he unload a barage on that BoP?

I must admit Picard maneuver was pretty good, but he seems to be by the book in most encounters. He was decent fighting the Romulans.

Sisko and Kirk are pretty good.

I wonder how Roga Denar would do with a starship?


1. Eddington
x. Roga Denar (maybe)
2. Kirk
3. Riker
4. Sisko
5. Picard

Fame:
Kirk
Picard
Sisko
Riker

 

[Jono]

If we're taking an in-universe view of things I actually doubt that Picard, Riker and Sisko would be amongst the most famous tacticians in Starfleet. I think they would probably only have a relatively minor notoriety as tacticians and that they're fame would be in other areas.

I think the top 5 would probably be mostly people we never heard of. People from the Romulan and Klingon Wars. James T. Kirk would be up there and also probably Jonathan Archer. Despite what we saw in the show Archer is the person who basically formed the Federation, he explored in a ship that was 50 years behind what seemed to be fairly standard out there. He stood up to the Klingons, Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and he probably had a significant role in the war with the Romulans. He basically did what Kirk and Picard did but without the benefit of probably the most advanced ship in the quadrant.

 

[The Badger]

I think the top 5 would probably be mostly people we never heard of. People from the Romulan and Klingon Wars.

Yeah, consider General Koord from TFF. When we see him he's a fat drunken joke, but Kirk obviously considers him very highly.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

Take a look at Rascals and Generations and tell me Riker is one of the UFP's top tacticians.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Of all the main characters, Benjamin Sisko has probably the most combat experience:

- first officer of the USS Okinawa during the Tzenkethi War
- first officer of the USS Saratoga during the Battle of Wolf 359
- commanding officer of the USS Defiant and of Deep Space 9 during the Dominion War (including the Second Battle of Deep Space 9, Operation Return, the First and Second Battles of Chin'toka, and the Battle of Cardassia).

 

[Cyke101]

Take a look at Rascals and Generations and tell me Riker is one of the UFP's top tacticians.

I love Riker, but this is a very good point

Anyway, most famous tacticians in UFP history? That's going to be a bit daunting. But for the modern day, I would say someone like Admiral Ross would get quite a bit of credit from the Dominion War.

 

[Finn]

At the time of Nemesis, most of those on the list is too contemporary. The list should be full of people we have never heard of. We don't know much about the first fifty years of the 24th Century. For all we know, schoolchildren all over the federation read about Rachel Garrett. I agree Kirk and Archer would be up there.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Mine would be:

1.) Kirk
2.) Spock
3.) Picard
4.) Riker
5.) Sisko

 

[Rulius]

What about Garth of Izar?

 

[James Tiberius Kirk]

What about Garth of Izar?

Right there in the first post; and yeah, this list is kind of hard to compile really, extremely biased towards what we've seen on screen of course.

 

[HIj'Qa]

There is the " Grankite Order of Tactics " award, and I like to think of it as being named after a person, 'Grankite', someone famous as a tactician in UFP history. Not necessarily a human, possibly a Zakdorn.

 

[Rulius]

Ah crap... missed Garth,,, oh well...what about the TNG episode with the,,, uh alien guy who was supposed to be a super tactician? I forget which episode it was,,, he played some game with Data and beat him?