Who would make a great new Captain for Discovery?

Captain Roseanne Conner. I hear she's available.

 

Nah, CBS doesn't own that copyright. ABC might be willing to sell it cheap, though.

 

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Zaphod
Died at the siege of Corvan II during Federation-Klingon War

 

I read this too fast and thought you typed Abraham Lincoln at first!

 

Andrew Lincoln as the Starfleet captain who constantly looks tearful and terrified.

 

And makes all the wrong decisions thereby getting everyone killed all the time.

 

Abraham Lincoln IV is a highly respected Star Fleet Officer.
Known for fighting Klingons, Romulans & killing Vampires...

 

"Party on, dudes!!!"

 

Steven Toast

 

It's amazing how many names have been listed here that I've never heard of.

It reads like this to me:

Gunnar Dalton
Mary-Beth Bowman
Randolph Carson
Branden Bean III

Who the fuck are half you guys even taking about?

 

Ginger Grant
Jonas Grumby
Roy Hinkley, Ph.D.
Lovey Wentworth Howell
Thurston Howell III
Mary Ann Summers

 

What about Gil Egan?

 

He's still in the Delta Quadrant.

 

Pffffft. He' s spending a year dead for tax reasons.

 

... and the left head is currently trying to avoid capture for the killing of the right head.
Of course when the year is up, all charges will be dropped.

 

The elephant in the room:
Jeffrey Combs
and then there is:
Andrew Robinson
failing that,
Boris Johnson
:-)

 

A politician as Captain? Why not. Just so long as he realizes he'll have to memorize his lines instead of reading them on a teleprompter.

 

Andrew Robinson is likely too old now at 76 to play a captain. Perhaps too old for the rigors of a full-time role for that matter - I dunno how his health is.

Jeffrey Combs seems spry though at 63.

You know, it's actually pretty remarkable that no main or primary recurring cast members of Berman-era Trek have passed away yet. Some of them are getting up there.

 

Patrick Stewart and Rene Auberjonois are the oldest, being born in 1940. 78 isn't too bad.