Who is the best Star Trek captain of all time?
Diplomats, cowboys, wartime commanders and one animated bureaucrat — every chair on every bridge, argued over by fans for sixty years. Who deserves the centre seat?
1Jean-Luc PicardPatrick Stewart's diplomat-scholar, captain of the Enterprise-D across seven seasons of The Next Generation.1000pts
2James T. KirkWilliam Shatner's original Enterprise captain, the impulsive template every successor is measured against.610pts
3Benjamin SiskoAvery Brooks' station commander on Deep Space Nine, the first Black lead of a Trek series and its most morally conflicted captain.356pts
4SpockThe Vulcan first officer who commanded the Enterprise between Kirk's tours in the film era.356pts
5Kathryn JanewayKate Mulgrew's Voyager captain, stranded 70,000 light years from home and the franchise's first female lead.356pts
6Christopher PikeAnson Mount's Enterprise captain on Strange New Worlds, a role first played by Jeffrey Hunter in the 1965 pilot.261pts
7Michael BurnhamSonequa Martin-Green's Discovery lead, who rose from convicted mutineer to captain.261pts
8Jonathan ArcherScott Bakula's Enterprise NX-01 captain, humanity's first deep-space explorer a century before Kirk.261pts
9Robert AprilThe Enterprise's very first captain, canonised decades after his 1973 animated-series debut.261pts
10Carol FreemanThe demanding captain of the USS Cerritos in the animated comedy Lower Decks.0pts
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Patrick Stewart played Picard across 178 episodes and four films; Kirk got there first, and every captain after is defined against him: https://youpick.best/articles/star-trek-ranked-many-ways
