What crew could save the day first?

[timothy1701]

Ok, check it out. Q comes along and wants to put all of the Star Trek crews to a grand test. He puts Earth in danger, an anti-matter asteroid, with a quantum singularity inside it, is heading straight for Earth. Due to the gravimetric disturbances, tractor beams wont work, and it scatters phaser beams. Torpedoes aren't strong enough, so the crews will have to come up with some kind of genius, science type way of deflecting, destroying, or stopping the asteroid, presumably something that any of the ships would be able to do, even the NX-01. So it's not a matter of what ship, but the ingenuity of the crew that will save the day, just like Q wants it.

The question: what crew could do it first? Based on what we see in the episodes, and how fast they solve problems, who would? Would it take a whole episode, and outside help? Or would (Insert name here) have the perfect solution, rewire the deflector dish or something, and save the day?

They have 10 hours before it hits, there is a derelict alien ship nearby, and there might be anti-matter people living on the asteroid.
Captain Archer and the NX-01
Captain Kirk and the Enterprise
Captain Picard and the Enterprise D
Captain Sisko and DS9 (we'll say in his case, it's Bajor)
Captain Janeway and the Voyager

 

[Icemizer]

Kirk and crew win. Kirk will only consult Spock and then tell Scotty to get it done. All the others will convene a crew meeting and try to decide the right way to do things, with each of them bouncing silly ideas off one another before finally letting the captain make the decision.

 

[kes7]

Given the parameters you've set, definitely the crew of Voyager. That kind of thing is their specialty. I always thought B'Elanna, Harry and Seven could write a book called "1,001 Ways to Save (Or Destroy) The Universe Using Only a Deflector Dish."

 

[Bertie]

Yep, its Voyager. Nobody out-techs Janeway and company.

 

[Mysterion]

Sisko and the DSN folks. The Island of Misfit Toys always seemed to be able to pull something out of left field.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Face it, every other crew would be too far away. It's bound to be Archer and the NX-01 that's closer to home. It would probably involve re-enacting the plot to one of Trip's favourite movies Armageddon.

Of course, as anyone who's seen "Observer Effect" will point out...

Someone always dies...

 

[Islander]

Picard would win because all he has to do is say: "Q, that's enough... put every thing back like it was", like he always do...

 

[chakotay_lover]

I have to agree that janeway and her crew could write a book on modifying the deflector dish. lol but I have to say that jordy and data could save the people and earth without destorying the astroid, because of the massive about of calculations and saving people, and earth. This is right up Picards alley. Janeways alley was her own ship, and Ds9 really had dittly squat for technically saving themselves and others, except for the defiant, which just blows things up....

 

[WillsBabe]

I didn't read the scenario. I just voted for Picard & Co. Next time there's a random poll, I'll vote for Kirk & Co. That's usually how I handle these things these days.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

The Voyager crew. No one technobabbled like those guys. I'm quite glad they never made this episode...

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

I voted for Kirk and his crew. They incounterd many obbsticles like this before, and they always found away to save the lives of many. The would not give up on nothing no matter how diffacult the problem is.

 

[Anika Hanson]

Picard and co know how Q opperates and how to play the game so they could solve the problem by playing by Q's rules and solving his puzzle. However I also believe that Kirk and crew would also be able to find a way around it by out smarting Q and not playing by his rules. Kirk would win by 'cheating', whereas Picard would win within the rules of Q's game.

 

[Anji]

All Q needs to feel is one left hook from Kirk and he'd put that asteroid right back where he found it.

 

[nx1701g]

All Q needs to feel is one left hook from Kirk and he'd put that asteroid right back where he found it.

Don't you mean butt slam?

 

[Thestral]

Wait, based on the scenario you've outlined, all you're really talking about is the engineering and scientist teams from each show(s). Security, Tactical, Navigation/Helm, even Command are far, far less important. So you're really talking about

T'Pol and Tucker
Spock and Scott
Data and La Forge
(Jadzia) Dax and O'Brien
Seven and Torres
along with their respective teams.

Much as I love DS9, I think TNG's team takes this handily. This sort of anomaly is SOP for them. The ingenuity and genius aren't that dissimilar between the department heads, but the respective support of each team creates a tipping point. TNG crew is the best and the brightest; VOY crew is just another ship; and DS9 crew is a mix of Fleeters and Bajoran Militia.

And honestly? TNG gets the quick win because they've got the solution handy. What, it can't be effectively blown up or redirected, and there's people maybe living there anyway? Why, simplicity itself - pull a Kitty Pryde and phase the sucker right through the planet, then bring it back in phase.

 

[Amaris]

Wait, based on the scenario you've outlined, all you're really talking about is the engineering and scientist teams from each show(s). Security, Tactical, Navigation/Helm, even Command are far, far less important. So you're really talking about

T'Pol and Tucker
Spock and Scott
Data and La Forge
(Jadzia) Dax and O'Brien
Seven and Torres
along with their respective teams.

Much as I love DS9, I think TNG's team takes this handily. This sort of anomaly is SOP for them. The ingenuity and genius aren't that dissimilar between the department heads, but the respective support of each team creates a tipping point. TNG crew is the best and the brightest; VOY crew is just another ship; and DS9 crew is a mix of Fleeters and Bajoran Militia.

And honestly? TNG gets the quick win because they've got the solution handy. What, it can't be effectively blown up or redirected, and there's people maybe living there anyway? Why, simplicity itself - pull a Kitty Pryde and phase the sucker right through the planet, then bring it back in phase.

Yeah, I love TOS and I'm a Niner, (I like TNG a lot too though), but the TNG crew would definitely nail this one.

J.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Kirk would confound and trap Q into retracting everything.

 

[Damask]

Much as I love DS9, I think TNG's team takes this handily. This sort of anomaly is SOP for them. The ingenuity and genius aren't that dissimilar between the department heads, but the respective support of each team creates a tipping point. TNG crew is the best and the brightest; VOY crew is just another ship; and DS9 crew is a mix of Fleeters and Bajoran Militia.

and half human/half Prophet Captains

 

[JarodRussell]

Picard, because he knows Q, and will be able to talk him into stopping the asteroid. Or he decides to sit back, let Q destroy Earth to let him realize what he did (like a child who pushes a toy to the limits, breaks it and then gets sad), and gain the morale high ground, and wait until the Continuum punishes Q and restores everything.

 

[Thestral]

Much as I love DS9, I think TNG's team takes this handily. This sort of anomaly is SOP for them. The ingenuity and genius aren't that dissimilar between the department heads, but the respective support of each team creates a tipping point. TNG crew is the best and the brightest; VOY crew is just another ship; and DS9 crew is a mix of Fleeters and Bajoran Militia.

and half human/half Prophet Captains

Granted, but unless Ben knows some Prophet-style kung-fu, I don't think it'll help them.