The Final Answer

[Nod]

It's time to get the final answer for the most important question ever. Who was the best captain? Kirk, Picard, or Janeway....

[mrpeanut]

The real answer is the fans!

You guys are the real captain of the millennium falcon!

[splynt0r]

Captain Slow aka. James May from top gear 

[kelsokid18]

It's time to get the final answer for the most important question ever. Who was the best captain? Kirk, Picard, or Janeway....

You fail at Trek.  You forgot Capt. Benjamin Sisko, Deep Space Nine.  He was a Captain in the last 4 seasons of DS9, despite having held the rank of Commander for the first half of the shows run. 

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Benjamin_Sisko

P.S. My avatar should have given my knowledge of all things Trek away

[Nod]

DS9 doesn't count. Nobody liked that show. Even the guy that played Quark thought the character was trite and cliched. I always thought it was boring compared to the other Star Trek shows and could never get into it. That's why I didn't mention DS9.

[jammie]

It's time to get the final answer for the most important question ever. Who was the best captain? Kirk, Picard, or Janeway....

Dear LordNod,

Best captain was definitely Picard.  He was reasonable, smart, fair, charistmatic, wise...  I always kind of saw Kirk as a hot piece of ass that travelled the planet in search of new life to sleep with.  That is not a bad thing either. 

To be Simon Cowell for a second... "Picard definitely has that X Factor."  And if you really need more reasons:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/joec/startrek_picardvkirk.htm

And just let me tell you, this sparked a big conversation at work during lunchtime.  I am not a huge Star Trek fan, but my lunch date is.  This is what we came up with:

Picard vs. Kirk - See above.
Data vs. Spok - Data (CLOSE though)
Jordie vs. Scottie - Scottie
Crusher vs. The other doctor - Crusher
Ryker vs. Spok - Spok
Warf vs. Uhura - Warf

We also gave honorable mentions to Dax and Wesley and thumbs down for Quark and Jake.

Thanks for your questions! 
Live long and prosper,
jammie |\/|

[Tachyon]

Wesley deserves no thumbs up. I don't think that Crusher has anything on Bones however (unless you meant the other Next Gen doctor, Pulaski, who she definitely pwns). Worf and Uhura aren't even really comparable since one is a lady who sits and says 'Hailing frequencies open' and one is a big scary Klingon who hits people.

[Nod]

Does anyone remember the name "The Doctor" from Voyager finally ended up deciding on? I've got the last episode somewhere around on my external but I can't find it.

[kelsokid18]

Does anyone remember the name "The Doctor" from Voyager finally ended up deciding on? I've got the last episode somewhere around on my external but I can't find it.

He ended up choosing Joe as his name.

From Memory Alpha, The Star Trek Wiki.  Quoted from the summary for the episode, entitled Endgame

Across the room, the Doctor comes in with a striking young beauty and greets Paris, introducing him to his new bride Lana, who he had married two weeks previous. Paris is shocked when the Doctor reveals that the name he had decided to adopt after 33 years of thought is Joe, to which the Doctor retorts that Joe was Lana's grandfather's name. Paris had mistakenly thought that Lana was also a hologram. The Doctor jokingly scolds him about it, stating that he thought they were beyond such distinctions.

[Nod]

Ah, I remember that now. Now without using wiki or google or anything. What was the name B'Lana gave her baby?

[kelsokid18]

Ah, I remember that now. Now without using wiki or google or anything. What was the name B'Lana gave her baby?

That's B'Elanna and she had a kid with Lt. Tom Paris, they named it Miral

[Nod]

NERD!!!!!!!!

But seriously, you knew that without looking it up AND corrected my spelling? I'm impressed.

[PHISH-PHREAK]

This thread fails, because we all know the best captain was Captain America.

[kelsokid18]

NERD!!!!!!!!

But seriously, you knew that without looking it up AND corrected my spelling? I'm impressed.

A benefit of having the ridiculous ability to absorb/remember just damn near anything I see/hear/read!  Some would consider it a sign of Autism or ADD or something like that.  I just think it's a great trick!

[Tachyon]

I can do the same trick! Unfortunately this means that years after realizing I hate a lot of Star Trek I'm doomed to compulsively correct people on stupid details.