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Old 06-06-2010, 06:16 AM   #51
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Well done, Bill Adama!

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Well done, Bill Adama!
Technically an admiral, previously a commander, and never a captain... but... he captained a ship... er battlestar... WHATEVER, damn! Stupid nitpicking nerds. Not so much a hidden result but more like a "pick one that doesn't belong". His character is a lot like Sisko's and that isn't much of a coincidence considering Battlestar Galactica is co-written and co-produced by one of the best writers the Star Trek series ever had: Ronald D Moore. Adama's role is another tough one to play because he is one of those rare military heads that actually cares about the lives of civilians but doesn't let his compassion get in the way of making volatile and controversial military decisions. Plus, he actually lived after getting shot twice in the chest! Now THAT's tenacity.
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Old 06-06-2010, 08:58 PM   #52
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Admiral James Tiberius Kirk!

Mmm...that wasn't a surprise because I'm always going boldy into places no one has ever gone.
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Old 06-07-2010, 04:40 AM   #53
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Technically an admiral, previously a commander, and never a captain... but... he captained a ship... er battlestar... WHATEVER, damn! Stupid nitpicking nerds. Not so much a hidden result but more like a "pick one that doesn't belong". His character is a lot like Sisko's and that isn't much of a coincidence considering Battlestar Galactica is co-written and co-produced by one of the best writers the Star Trek series ever had: Ronald D Moore. Adama's role is another tough one to play because he is one of those rare military heads that actually cares about the lives of civilians but doesn't let his compassion get in the way of making volatile and controversial military decisions. Plus, he actually lived after getting shot twice in the chest! Now THAT's tenacity.

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So, his ship is/was a battlestar, or a spacecraft carrier in more systematic
parlance. I wonder, is Bill Adama or the original Commander Adama a better fit for me...?

You think Adama is like Sisko? No way, I think they're both miles apart. Ronald Moore wasn't the only writer on Star Trek, there were others like Brannon Bragga (God I hate him for killing Trek) that had equal input to Trek if not more. I just don't see Sisko and Adama as being alike at all because they don't remind me of each other in the slightest.

Adama is a very different sort of beast to Sisko. Adama is a much deeper, more intellectual and philosphical leader. Sisko is good with his fists, I'll grant you that, and that's about the only thing he shares in common with Adama. Adama, apart from being a great and respected leader, is also quite an intellectual. Sisko doesn't have any intellectual quality to him at all.

The way both men handle conflict is also very different. Adama has a much more serious air to him, "the legendary Adama stare/silence" as Roslin once commented. Whereas Sisko likes to make tongue-in-cheek wisecracks. Sisko also has a bit of sadistic streak to him which he no doubt learnt from Kurzon Dax.... e.g. when Julian Bashir had to look after a bunch of pain-in-the-ass ambassadors, Bashir made a comment about Sisko just not wanting to deal with ambassadors and that he was doing to Bashir was Kurzon did to him/Sisko.... and Sisko replied, with cruel amusement, "Exactly!".

I like Sisko but I don't think he has the same strong sort of ethical underpinning that Adama does. I'm not saying Sisko is dishonest but I just don't see that Adama stubborness about right and wrong in him. In a lot of ways, William Adama is a lot like his son Lee. Lee's strong ethics are the same as his father's, he just puts them more on display because he is younger and a lot more idealistic.

Ethically, the Star Trek Captain that comes closest to Adama would be Jean-Luc Picard. But Picard is still nothing like Adama. They're both intellectualists but Adama has a much more gritty personality, whereas Picard is more of a cerebral air about him.

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Old 06-07-2010, 04:53 AM   #54
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You are the Emissary of the Prophets, Benjamin Lafayette Sisko!
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As far as this test is concerned, you got the best result. This man was my favorite captain, and by far. There is no one else out there capable of as much. The man was a great father, a noble religious icon (and one worth his salt, which is rare in that field of expertise), an expert battlefield commander, the most respected human figure in Klingon culture, and a damned good captain. Oh, and he was a god. That's pretty significant by itself. It helps that he was also one of the best actors for the job. His character arc was easily the best in the entire smorgasboard of different Star Trek spinoffs for many reasons.
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Old 06-07-2010, 04:56 AM   #55
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Well, whaddya know? I'm closest to Jean-Luc Picard (23%), followed by William Adama (23%)!

Is there a "John Luck... Pickard" here?

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The fans of Star Trek with more than half a brain will always vote this guy as the better of the two. In the classic "Kirk vs Picard" argument, Picard should always win because he was simply the better man. The only thing Kirk could do was fight. Picard could fight, negotiate, verbally castrate, be assimilated and not have it dominate his character afterwards, and all this with such eloquence and grace. One of the more ironic characters, in that he was French with a British accent, he would speak and people would shut up and listen. He was never one to be fooled, either, and is probably the only captain here who could competently challenge Data to a philosphical debate.
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Old 06-07-2010, 11:55 AM   #56
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Captain Underrated!
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Captain John Archer went before his time in a ship that sank before it even launched. I am not sure how that dunderhead former owner of the franchise, Rick Berman, agreed on producing a series based on the 'foundation of the federation' when there was already an iconic series that more or less established that foundation and was pretty much well-known and well-liked by the fan base. That's not Scott Bakula's fault... I thought he did really well in his role. Captain Archer had serious balls to dive straight into a hostile region of space - hostile in terms of both environment and its occupants. He was a lot like Kirk in that he wasn't afraid of a fight, but what makes him better than Kirk is that he also knew when it was time to kiss and make up. This is a trait that doesn't come easy to any man.
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Old 06-08-2010, 03:45 AM   #57
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Captain Underrated!
21% Benjamin_Sisko, 11% Kathryn_Janeway, 9% Jean-Luc_Picard, 35% Johnathan_Archer, 18% William_Adama and 19% James_T_Kirk!

Captain John Archer went before his time in a ship that sank before it even launched. I am not sure how that dunderhead former owner of the franchise, Rick Berman, agreed on producing a series based on the 'foundation of the federation' when there was already an iconic series that more or less established that foundation and was pretty much well-known and well-liked by the fan base. That's not Scott Bakula's fault... I thought he did really well in his role. Captain Archer had serious balls to dive straight into a hostile region of space - hostile in terms of both environment and its occupants. He was a lot like Kirk in that he wasn't afraid of a fight, but what makes him better than Kirk is that he also knew when it was time to kiss and make up. This is a trait that doesn't come easy to any man.

I agree, Scott Bakula did do a good job. What is especially puzzling is that they ended the series when it finally started to get interesting.... the founding of the Federation. Tell me they couldn't have explored that a little more?

Enterprise started off well but it was clearly marketed to a different audience. When I first saw the intro, I did a double take because I seriously thought maybe I had gotten confused when I watched the "pre intro" scenes and thought it was Trek.

What I particularly did not like about Enterprise was the whole Tucker - T'Pol relationship. I swear those episodes were sub-pornographic. Tucker goes to T'Pol for an intimate neck/back message... "doctor's orders". T'Pol, in a slinky negligee, messages Tucker's naked body on her bed. Both character verbally comment about how this is all above board, professional and not in the slightest way inappropriate.

Really.
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Makes me think of those porno's where guy wearing nothing but his bathrobe "accidentally" walks into room with chick, who happens to be modelling her bikini at exactly the same time... I'll leave your imagination to work out what happens next. Incidentally, it works out the same way between Tucker and T'Pol in Enterprise... who would have thought?
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Seriously, if I want sex I'll watch Desperate Housewives. That's not what Trek is all about.

The other way the show lost itself was the whole WWII/Nazi/Time-travel thing. They even changed the intro to be some Nazi thing for the duration of that story arc. WTF were they thinking? Talking about alienating their audience.

I suppose the one good thing about them ending Trek when they did was that they couldn't do anymore damage.

I didn't like the new Star Trek movie either. Seriously, WTF was with all the testosterone? I was expecting a fight to break at at any moment between the male members of the crew over who had mating rights with all the females. All the interactions involved such aggression and venom, it was unbelieavable. Even when a Starfleet security guard asked McCoy for his ID before boarding a shuttle, McCoy gave him a mouthful of smart alec aggro. Seriously, isn't it the job of security personnel guarding a shuttle to ask for ID? We're not talking about gaining entry to a freaking nightclub here, we're talking about a freaking shuttle! The movie was one huge "My cock is the biggest and I'll prove it" competition.
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I could not recognise any of the crew, they all seem so obsessed with proving they were the macho alpha male in front of all the female crew members. It was like a freaking college fratenity/sorority gang bang in space. If that's the kind of shit I want to watch, I'll watch the 1982 movie Porky's.... it has sex and it's actually pretty damn funny! Bring back TNG and Picard, FFS. None of this stripping Trek of all its idealism to appeal to some dumb ass mass market demographic who don't even freaking know who Spock and Kirk even are to begin with.

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Old 06-09-2010, 09:07 AM   #58
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You happen to be Captain... rather Admiral... rather Captain James Tiberius Kirk!
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Old 09-08-2010, 11:25 AM   #59
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You are the Emissary of the Prophets, Benjamin Lafayette Sisko!
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As far as this test is concerned, you got the best result. This man was my favorite captain, and by far. There is no one else out there capable of as much. The man was a great father, a noble religious icon (and one worth his salt, which is rare in that field of expertise), an expert battlefield commander, the most respected human figure in Klingon culture, and a damned good captain. Oh, and he was a god. That's pretty significant by itself. It helps that he was also one of the best actors for the job. His character arc was easily the best in the entire smorgasboard of different Star Trek spinoffs for many reasons.


Well, okay.
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Old 09-08-2010, 03:54 PM   #60
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Janeway, with Sisko right behind.
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Old 09-10-2010, 02:44 PM   #61
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Jean-Luc Picard
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Old 09-11-2010, 04:55 AM   #62
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Old 09-11-2010, 07:44 AM   #63
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Is there a "John Luck... Pickard" here?

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Old 09-11-2010, 12:50 PM   #64
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Old 07-24-2011, 08:10 PM   #65
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Captain Picard

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Old 07-24-2011, 08:20 PM   #66
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I don't suppose we can pick a captain outside of the box...


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Old 07-24-2011, 10:18 PM   #67
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The fans of Star Trek with more than half a brain will always vote this guy as the better of the two. In the classic "Kirk vs Picard" argument, Picard should always win because he was simply the better man. The only thing Kirk could do was fight. Picard could fight, negotiate, verbally castrate, be assimilated and not have it dominate his character afterwards, and all this with such eloquence and grace. One of the more ironic characters, in that he was French with a British accent, he would speak and people would shut up and listen. He was never one to be fooled, either, and is probably the only captain here who could competently challenge Data to a philosphical debate.
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Old 07-24-2011, 11:55 PM   #68
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I am so glad Janeway was my lowest result as I am literally not capable of having more disdain for a fictional character then I have for Kathy.

Sisko, btw.
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Old 07-25-2011, 04:55 AM   #69
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68% Benjamin_Sisko
22% Jean-Luc Picard
11% Kathryn Janeway
11% William Adama
4% James T. Kirk
5% Johnathan Archer

I like getting my hands and uniform dirty, so Sisko is the man. Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! I love Picard though. He should be treated like an Oscar Statuette, just put him in a nice place to be worshiped and adored.
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Old 07-25-2011, 07:39 AM   #70
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Well done, Bill Adama!

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The funny thing is that I've never actually watched Battlestar Galactica.

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Old 07-25-2011, 08:01 AM   #71
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I am so glad Janeway was my lowest result as I am literally not capable of having more disdain for a fictional character then I have for Kathy.

Sisko, btw.

Funny you should write this. I got Sisko, with Janeway second, and all I could think was "damned, why couldn't that have been reversed".

I loathe Sisko almost as much as I adore Janeway.

To quote Vera Donovan from Delores Claiborne "Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto."

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Old 07-25-2011, 08:41 AM   #72
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Old 07-25-2011, 12:18 PM   #73
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As far as this test is concerned, you got the best result. This man was my favorite captain, and by far. There is no one else out there capable of as much. The man was a great father, a noble religious icon (and one worth his salt, which is rare in that field of expertise), an expert battlefield commander, the most respected human figure in Klingon culture, and a damned good captain. Oh, and he was a god. That's pretty significant by itself. It helps that he was also one of the best actors for the job. His character arc was easily the best in the entire smorgasboard of different Star Trek spinoffs for many reasons

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27% Jean-Luc_Picard

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*meh* I was hoping for a Picard landslide.Although, I may have liked Sisko second best...the show was ok but got a little boring for me even though the acting and plot writing were pretty good, it got a little monotonous,I watched it almost every weekend though,it was on as a rerun on Sunday afternoons.
I agree about Scott Bacula too. That was a travesty,how the network/franchise handled it-It could have been a great show longer...ok wait, I think Sisko's my third favorite...after the sexy vulcan who should have been captain
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Old 10-04-2011, 06:15 PM   #74
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Benjamin Lafayette Sisko!

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Old 10-05-2011, 10:53 AM   #75
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Janeway, then Picard
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