Posted December 15, 2011
Assuming we take both captains from their respective series and not in the EU or whatever Star Trek calls it, then Picard is obviously the better captain.
Kirk may have been cooler, but he was always fighting aliens with his bare hands or boning them with his bare.. well whatever.
That, although awesome, is not a good captain.
Picard on the other hand was always looking out for his crew and understood that sometimes you had to send your number one instead if the situation was too dangerous.
And he still did a ton of amazing things, without constantly endangering the Prime Directive (and his crew) as Kirk was wont to do.
Kirk may have been cooler, but he was always fighting aliens with his bare hands or boning them with his bare.. well whatever.
That, although awesome, is not a good captain.
Picard on the other hand was always looking out for his crew and understood that sometimes you had to send your number one instead if the situation was too dangerous.
And he still did a ton of amazing things, without constantly endangering the Prime Directive (and his crew) as Kirk was wont to do.