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Kirk or Picard? Jeff Bezos Picks His Favorite 'Star Trek' Captain
space.com ^ | March 12, 2018 07:57pm ET | Tariq Malik

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:04:46 AM PDT by Bender2

Captain Jean-Luc Picard rules. So says Jeff Bezos.

The Blue Origin founder apparently sides firmly with Sir Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Picard from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" when picking the best starship captain from the "Star Trek" franchise. Of course, that may be because Bezos hung out with Stewart at a recent event

"Kirk or Picard? Picard!" Bezos wrote on Twitter Saturday (March 10)...

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blueorigin; chat; districtofcolumbia; hollywood; jeffbezos; kirk; patrickstewart; picard; scifi; star; startrek; trek; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Bender2

I like the pre prime directive galaxy of ‘Enterprise’. Not crazy about Bakula’s acting, but Captain Archer worried little about the bad guy’s feelings being hurt or what the Vulcans thought of his management style.

So next to Kirk…I’ll go with Archer.


41 posted on 03/13/2018 7:42:08 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: sickoflibs

In the very first episode of TNG. Picard surrenders the Enterprise. Kirk would have blown it up using Corbomite.


42 posted on 03/13/2018 7:44:17 AM PDT by MGG
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To: Vaquero

Kirk would take Picard’s lunch credits in a game of Fizbin.


43 posted on 03/13/2018 7:47:45 AM PDT by MGG
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To: Bender2
Maybe I misunderstood your comment about Space X, but it's no reason to be rude about it. It is common in this forum to use the tagline to enter comments outside of the posted subject.

You did not do that and I interpreted that your comment was linking Bezos to Space X.

My reply to you was ment to be informative, but some how you considered it a slam.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
44 posted on 03/13/2018 7:50:33 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: Bender2

Shouldn’t the question be Bezos or a turd?


45 posted on 03/13/2018 8:02:21 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: Bender2

46 posted on 03/13/2018 8:04:52 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: jaydubya2
Re: Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Perhaps had I drank coffee... instead of my usual morning wake up fare--

I might not have... blown my stack--

But then again, who knows" I will think about it... when I seep this off

47 posted on 03/13/2018 8:05:15 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

Peace Bender2...


48 posted on 03/13/2018 8:08:11 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: kosciusko51

Now now we aren’t talking Chuck Norris here. ;-)


49 posted on 03/13/2018 8:15:14 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Kirk was the Chuck Norris of Star Trek captains. :-)


50 posted on 03/13/2018 8:27:24 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Bender2

I dunno but:
Picard grew up on a quaint little French vineyard, squishing grapes with his toes, while Kirk slung bails of wheat and hay in Iowa to put himself through school.
Kirk emphasizes his orations with pertinent hand gestures.
Picard allows cats on board, while Kirk beams away even really cute things, like Tribbles.
Picard hasn’t fathered any children; Kirk — probably millions.
If there was ever a Klingon on Kirk’s bridge, Kirk would likely be dead.
If Kirk finds a strange spinning probe, he blows it up.
Kirk doesn’t test the engines — he just fires them up.


51 posted on 03/13/2018 9:09:31 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Bender2

Bezos strikes me as more of a Firengi.


52 posted on 03/13/2018 9:30:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bender2

Bezos married his hot wife in 1993, when he was 29, she was 23 and worked for him at a hedge fund. This was before he founded Amazon. He was high-income but not absurdly rich at the time.


53 posted on 03/13/2018 9:42:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Bender2
I have to agree, Kirk was best. I was 7 when I first saw TOS on the BBC back in 1969 and loved it.

When the much-anticipated TNG came out in the late 80s I was horribly disappointed with the dull, crap plots and the fat cow Enterprise D. In the intervening years I'd played a lot of Star Fleet Battles and Star Trek RPG and wanted starship-to-starship combat, not boring diplomacy on a beige bridge.

54 posted on 03/13/2018 11:36:38 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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To: Bender2

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew are the equivalent of a lounge full of administrators and teachers at a college.

Wesley Crusher? His mom and Picard did a good thing when they abandoned him on a planet full of indians.

Capt Kirk would win any fight be it mental or physical.
He has defeated computers and Klingons and Romulans and KHAN.

Picard? He holds a meeting and drinks his Earl Grey tea.


55 posted on 03/13/2018 11:54:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: CarolinaReaganFan
Kirk would be a redneck Jedi;

You might be a redneck Jedi if...

  1. You ever heard the phrase, "May the force be with y'all."
  2. Your Jedi robe is a camouflage color.
  3. You have ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.
  4. At least one wing of your X-Wings is primer colored.
  5. You have bantha horns on the front of your land speeder.
  6. You can easily describe the taste of an Ewok.
  7. You have ever had an X-wing up on blocks in your yard.
  8. You ever lost a hand during a light saber fight because you had to spit.
  9. The worst part of spending time on Dagobah is the dadgum skeeters.
  10. Wookies are offended by your B.O.
  11. You have ever used the force to get yourself another beer so you didn't have to wait for a commercial.
  12. You have ever used the force in conjunction with fishing/bowling.
  13. Your father has ever said to you, "Shoot, son come on over to the dark side...it'll be a hoot."
  14. You have ever had your R-2 unit use its self-defense electro-shock thingy to get the barbecue grill to light.
  15. You have a confederate flag painted on the hood of your landspeeder.
  16. Although you had to kill him, you kinda thought that Jabba the Hutt had a pretty good handle on how to treat his women.
  17. You have ever accidentally referred to Darth Vader's evil empire as "them damn Yankees."
  18. You have a cousin who bears a strong resemblance to Chewbacca.
  19. You suggested that they outfit the Millennium Falcon with red wood deck.
  20. You were the only person drinking Jack Daniels on the rocks during the cantina scene.

56 posted on 03/13/2018 12:01:36 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Bender2

I’m with Spock!


57 posted on 03/13/2018 12:15:14 PM PDT by Reily
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To: henkster
Kirk by far!

He was awesome as a "leader".

Kirk was the "id" Spock was the "ego" and McCoy was the "superego".

When making tough decisions as the captain, he often would listen to Spock's opinion, McCoy's opinion, then consider the best option.

Which usually ended up being right.

But Kirk was the ultimate "decider".

A much more interesting character than Picard.

58 posted on 03/13/2018 1:22:52 PM PDT by boop (Top men are on the case. "Who are they?" I said TOP men. End of discussion.)
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Re: Kirk would be a redneck Jedi

Old Jim Boy is one of us indeed! Me... and Wick here drank a bottle of Romulan ale and a case of Lone Star with him just last night--

Believe he's over at his hooch having some hair... of the dog.

https://drunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/star-trek-hdr.jpg

59 posted on 03/13/2018 1:29:12 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2
Spock was a capable captain, but he was often too logical and calculating.

Kirk trusted him in the captain's seat while he was away, but only for temporary situations.

He also trusted Scotty, when he and Spock were away.

Even Sulu was given a couple of chances.

Notice that Kirk never let McCoy command, even though he out-ranked Sulu.

I think that McCoy didn't WANT to be put in that position.

The only time I remember McCoy making a command decision was when Spock asked to be put under arrest, and even then McCoy reluctantly confined him to quarters.

60 posted on 03/13/2018 1:31:46 PM PDT by boop (Top men are on the case. "Who are they?" I said TOP men. End of discussion.)
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