Which Captain would have seen 5 lights first?

[Luckyflux]

At the end of the episode Picard said something like he almost saw 5 lights. But which Captain would have been "broken" first? And who would have lasted the longest?

My guesses are Janeway would have broken first, then Archer, then Picard, then Sisko, and finally Kirk. I only say Kirk because I think he would have wanted the torture to continue. And Sisko is pretty tough to begin with. I hate going against my main bald man Jean-Luc, but that's what I think.

 

[SiorX]

Re: Which Captain would have seem 5 lights first?

I'm inclined to think Janeway would have seen six, out of contrariness.

 

[zenophite]

Re: Which Captain would have seem 5 lights first?

if we are talking reality then there is no way to tell. The funny thing about torture, combat and other sorts of extreme situations is that you can't predict who will be able to tough it out better than anyone else.
War (and torture) has a tendency to make cowards out of tough guys and survivors out of the meek.

 

[indranee]

Re: Which Captain would have seem 5 lights first?

Archer was pretty strong in the torture scene in ENT (with the Xindi). I doubt he'd have seen the five lights that fast. I don't see any one of them seeing them very early, unless of course it accomplished something.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Sisko would have started with four and then gone to three...two...one...NONE, SUCKAH!

Archer would have seen five lights before he was even asked.

 

[nx1701g]

^ No he would have tortured the torturer by talking about that damn Gazelle.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

There are FOUR GAZELLES!

 

[HRHTheKING]

Picard pretty much DID crack.

Sisko would never have been broken.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I think Janway would have crumbled, followed by Picard. I think Archer would have gone the next because, if nothing else, he's held up fairly well in that sort of situation before. Sisko would have been next. And then, just the way they personified Kirk, he would have lasted long enough for the torturer to say, "Screw this! This stopped being fun a while ago... send him home!"

 

[M'Sharak]

Luckyflux said:
Which Captain would have seen 5 lights first?

Robert April. It's why he never got his own series.

 

[Bill Morris]

Harriman, but expecting the fifth light to be installed Tuesday.

 

[Nebusj]

Frosty the Vorta said:
Sisko would have started with four and then gone to three...two...one...NONE, SUCKAH!

Archer would have seen five lights before he was even asked.

Nah, see, you're overlooking that Archer is totally used to being whaled on. Being strung up naked and savagely beaten by sadistic aliens for hours on end? That's what Archer calls Tuesday. Oh, and they're also screening Nemesis on all four walls, the floor and the ceiling? Thursdays.

 

[blakbyrd]

LCARS 24 said: Harriman, but expecting the fifth light to be installed Tuesday.

Janeway, Archer, Sisko, Kirk, then Picard.

 

[HRHTheKING]

The Prophets would give the Emissary the strength to resist.

Harriman would puke as soon as he was served the Taspar.

 

[STIntergalactic]

This is a very good question. I'm not really sure how to answer. I would have to say Kirk would see them first, but he would also convince Madred that there were five too.

 

[Sisu]

Who are we kidding? Kirk would have talked all four lights into imploding as he did with so many technological devices.

 

[Delta1]

Kirk or Sisko would agree that there are five lights, that Gul Madred's requests were perfectly reasonable, and share a glass of kanar with him. But when asked about local starship deployments, they would delay and prevaricate until the information was no longer of value. As a prisoner, they would already be totally under Madred's control, no reason to piss him off about minor things like lighting.

 

[Deks]

Wow ... so many biased responses, all drawn on the fact of who likes individual show better.

If we are to take into account the captains personalities and what they went through ...
I would say none of them would fair better or worse than Picard did.
All have received same (or at the very least similar) training and went through a different set of circumstances.

Janeway and Archer were in similar predicaments with no ships/starbases or SF to fall for backup (at least in Archers case it wasn't doable anytime soon) and both exhibited a psychopathic line of thinking under dangerous situations that often got them and the people who worked under them through it, so forgive me if I am skeptical when some of the above posters say that Janeway and Archer would cave in first.

Each captain displayed their own strengths and weaknesses that would probably put them in the same ground as Picard.

 

[jimbo1973]

LCARS 24 said:
Harriman, but expecting the fifth light to be installed Tuesday.

 

[Kegek]

To be honest, I doubt any of them would cave in. Not because I like them all, it's just how they're written - resilient, indomitable heroes. They can come off as unconvincing farces of same, but execution does not belie intent.