Who is your favourite captain?
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The sudden rise of Janeway votes is little suspicious, especially when 4 cadets vote for her in the space of five posts.Maybe I'm just upset that she overtook The Sisko.
What can I say?
The word is that some doubt the existence of Janeway fans, so I guess some of us decided to show ourselves 
Katie
The sudden rise of Janeway votes is little suspicious, especially when 4 cadets vote for her in the space of five posts.
What can we say? She's good.
Shes OK. I am surprised at the spike in votes though.
picard would be my favourite captain followed by the sisko with archer and kirk third
ExactlyThe sudden rise of Janeway votes is little suspicious, especially when 4 cadets vote for her in the space of five posts.
What can I say?
Katie
I don't get all the Harriman hate. We met him for what, twenty minutes? Hardly enough time to get to know the man. I mean, Starfleet entrusted him with an Enterprise, so obviously he must know what he's doing.
So what if he didn't have all the answers? Kirk was in the film, so it's fucking OBVIOUS that Harriman's going to look like a dork. That's the whole point of the writing. Whenever Kirk is around, *he's* going to be the hero - he has to be. No other captain but Kirk can have a backbone. Only Kirk can save the day. That's the cliché we're dealing with. (We'll see how Trek XI handles this with Kirk and Pike in the same scenes....)
I think people are just pissed at Harriman because they blame him for Kirk being killed. They hold a grudge because of that. There's no logical *reason* to hate Harriman. He doesn't deserve that. IMHO, he did the best he could. And it's not Harriman's fault that Kirk died, either. Harriman volunteered to go down to the deflector room. But Kirk did it instead. If Harriman had been the one who died, would anyone's attitude towards him be different?
If Harriman was such a dumbass, he would have still tried to conduct the rescue mission even though his ship was clearly not up for it. (That's the problem. It wasn't that Harriman wasn't ready, the Enterprise wasn't.) But Harriman swallowed his pride, recognized he needed help, and openly asked Kirk for advice - in front of the whole bridge crew. Who else would have the nads to do that? I gotta give him props for that alone.
Very well said. As I've said before I wish we would have gotten more
of Rabbit in Trek. He was a good character IMO and was very fun to
read in the Lost Era novel the Enterprise-B was featured in.
But of course I voted Picard.
I've always been more of a fan of Captain Picard. He has a strong command presence. Not a hothead, more of a diplomat. He's not afraid to act strongly to protect his crew though.
Same here. Although I heard about the poll from another board where Janeway fans like to hang. That may explain the spike.
Smeos (John Humble): RIP 090204
I apologize for barging into this thread. I am unfamiliar with the operation of this board style and didn't want to spend the night looking up how to start a new thread. Perhaps one of you will be kind enough to give this news the place it deserves.
One of your own, Smeos (a virtual friend of mine from the Delphi board, PC Gaming online) has passed away. I don't know if his roomate has been able to get around, or in his grief, the desire to get around to everywhere Smeos went and pass the word.
At any rate, our friend died after a short illness: http://www.legacy.com/can-vancouver/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=123972358 His roomate said they believed it to be a bacterial abcess of the brain. That is unconfirmed, and really doesn't matter now.
I miss his wit very much. I see he had about 1,000 posts here. Maybe I'll come back and look for them. I don't know.
He was 23.
I apologize for barging into this thread. I am unfamiliar with the operation of this board style and didn't want to spend the night looking up how to start a new thread. Perhaps one of you will be kind enough to give this news the place it deserves.
One of your own, Smeos (a virtual friend of mine from the Delphi board, PC Gaming online) has passed away. I don't know if his roomate has been able to get around, or in his grief, the desire to get around to everywhere Smeos went and pass the word.
At any rate, our friend died after a short illness: http://www.legacy.com/can-vancouver/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=123972358 His roomate said they believed it to be a bacterial abcess of the brain. That is unconfirmed, and really doesn't matter now.
I miss his wit very much. I see he had about 1,000 posts here. Maybe I'll come back and look for them. I don't know.
He was 23.
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Harriman. That guy was the shit.
The sudden rise of Janeway votes is little suspicious, especially when 4 cadets vote for her in the space of five posts.
What can I say?
Katie
Yep, we're comin out of the woodwork!
Context is everything, so I really can't pick one.
If it's a question of who I'd want to serve under in Starfleet, for example, it would have to be Kirk. If it's a question of who I'd want serving under me in Starfleet, it would definitely be Picard. If it's a question of who I'd want to go fishing and drink beer with, Archer has a pronounced advantage. If it's a question of who I'd go to if I had a moral conundrum I needed advice on, Picard and Sisko pull ahead. If it's a question of who I thought would be an engaging dinner companion and possible sex partner, Janeway is sharply in the lead. It's an expansive scenario.
If it's a question of who I'd want to serve under in Starfleet, for example, it would have to be Kirk. If it's a question of who I'd want serving under me in Starfleet, it would definitely be Picard. If it's a question of who I'd want to go fishing and drink beer with, Archer has a pronounced advantage. If it's a question of who I'd go to if I had a moral conundrum I needed advice on, Picard and Sisko pull ahead. If it's a question of who I thought would be an engaging dinner companion and possible sex partner, Janeway is sharply in the lead. It's an expansive scenario.
Someone please explain me who the fluck is Harriman? I'm too lazy to google him myself.
Captain, Enterprise-B: John Harriman.
Featured in the opening of Star Trek Generations.
Played by Alan Ruck.
Also "Rabbit" from Twister.
He's a cool actor. Obviously was in Star Trek Generations, Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
Twister and even had a pretty cool appearence on an episode of The Outer Limits.
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