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Ismael Horatio Wang, of course !
But for the poll I voted Adama
I voted for James T. Kirk, followed closely by Han Solo. Captain Swinepork was tempting, though, I must admit! Loved that segment on the old muppets show!:-)
Shoot, I did not see that we could vote for three! Too fixated on Captain Kirk, I guess, sorry!
Korg has a much more extensive knowledge of spaceship captains than I do: I don’t even recognize more than half the names.
Having said which, there will never be a Captain for me other than Jean-Luc Picard: intelligent, erudite, compassionate, decisive, forceful, a good judge of men and aliens, clever strategist, never less than totally fair and a true leader by temperament and by that marvellous English accent. I vote for him: all three times.
Where’s Jason Nesmith of Galaxy Quest? I voted for James Tiberius Kirk!
Kirk: Uhura! Uhura!
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Kirk? What are you doing here?
Kirk: The message you intercepted from the Klingon prison planet…
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Oh my God, what’s wrong with your hands!
Kirk: [waves off the question] Who was responsible for the attack and was the ship walullaa?
Lt. Nyota Uhura: What?
Kirk: [to McCoy] Whass… whas happening with my mouth?
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy: You’ve got numb-tongue?
Kirk: *Nuhtung?*
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy: I can fix that!
[hurries off to find another hypospray]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Was the ship what?
Kirk: Wallala!
Lt. Nyota Uhura: What?
Kirk: *Womulan!*
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Romulan? Yes!
[Bones injects him with another hypospray]
Kirk: ACK!
[trying to say 'dammit']
Kirk: DAHHIT!
Joivre, Already pre-ordered my copy of that movie – can’t wait for the DVD to arrive!
My choices were Han Solo, who shot first & not Greedo or concurrently with Greedo, James T. Kirk, the personification of a starship captain, and Zapp Brannigan, a caricature of James T. Kirk.
I thought I was fairly well read in SF, but I didn’t know most of them. Of the list, J.T. Kirk is fairly good, as is J-L Picard, but neither show the care a Captain needs to have for his crew.
Thus my real vote would be for Honor Harrington (from Dave Weber’s On Basilisk Station).
I know the post says spaceship captains, but cbi’s comment above made me think of one of the better examples of ship’s captains I’ve seen recently: Captain Jack Aubrey of the HMS Surprise, as seen in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
I might have to agree with colorless’s comments regarding Kirk and Picard (although I haven’t seen much of TNG), but if you look at some of the other captains to top the list, such as Mal Reynolds (Firefly) and Adama (BSG), I would have to disagree. Mal consistenly calls his crew family and goes to great lengths to protect them (e.g. the torture scene in “War Stories”). Even though I’m only half way through season 2 of BSG, I think there are plenty of examples of Adama’s self-sacrifice for his crew. You can tell that their respective crews are always at the fore-front of every decision that they make.
Interesting point about ship captains vs spaceship captains. I tried to keep the poll at least slightly on topic.
I picked Mal Reynolds, James Kirk and Han Solo.
Solo is the epitome of cool before Lucas emasculated him in the “Special Edition”. I think that Mal Reynolds is my favourite. He’s rough and tough, expects his crew to do what he tells them, will sacrifice his life for his crew’s safety and engenders extreme loyalty in his associates.
I think a captain needs to have something terrible or dreadful about them- a lord of life and death. U-581 was a movie that looked at this issue.
Good poll. I voted for Malcolm Reynolds, Jean-Luc Picard, and James T. Kirk. Mal is my favorite by far, for exactly the same reasons that Korg stated. I grew up watching Picard, and he is the ultimate Star Trek captain for me, and a close second in this poll. Kirk made it because I thoroughly enjoyed his representation in the most recent Star Trek movie.
Bring back Firefly!!
Thanks Chelsey. I really wish there was more Firefly to sink my teeth into. Serenity only whetted my appetite! I’ve had to survive on the Serenity RPG- http://www.margaretweis.com/wp/game-products/serenity/serenity-rpg/
Han Solo, Leela (I love Futurama), and James T. Kirk.
Only three to choose? You cruel gorilla.
I went all nostalgic: Captain Avatar, Captain Kremmen, Wilma Deering.
Captain Avatar’s gritty ‘Fire the Wave Motion gun, Wildstar’ will always stay with me.
Captain Kremmen + James T Kirk = Zapp Brannigan.
And I’m sure Wilma Deering has a direct descendant in Leela. How she put up with all the thick-headed testosterone around her I don’t know. More than a match for Buck.
Honorable mentions in my list would be Malcolm Reynolds, Adama (old series) and Swinepork.
Good choices.
Sums up a lot of our childhood viewing.
Star Blazers had some great moments. I think I liked the Desslok series better than the Comet Empire. The wave-motion gun firing sequence is imprinted on my mind. Remember when the enemies developed the Desslok Cannon in response?
Test firing the WMG-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-1zWsXFNs
Some of those early anime series left a mark on me- Astroboy, Kum Kum, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Kimba.
I can’t believe Mal isn’t getting more love. Poor Captain Tightpants. 31% is respectable but not quite shiny
Korg, you forgot to include Adam Quark, commander of the United Galaxies Sanitation Patrol Cruiser in Quark but that’s understandable…