if they were to actually meet to prove this--
Jim would kill him... 
before that left-wing ninny could start negotiations on the shape of the table--
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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.
Shouldn’t the question be Bezos or a turd?
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.
Bezos strikes me as more of a Firengi.
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.
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.
I’m with Spock!
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.
Picard started out as kind of a French version of Kirk until he was stabbed in the back through his heart in a bar fight with some Nausicaans who had cheated one of his friends back when they were in Star Fleet.
Guess that and the artificial heart made him a more thoughtful version of Kirk and I respect that.
But between Picard and all of the many timeline versions of Kirk, my favorite Enterprise captain is the first Enterprise's captain, Captain Archer.
As it is now, I just wish they would leave the classics alone and tell new stories with new people, instead.
But no, they have to alter the timeline so they can tell it all again... only "better!".
Just no respect. That's what's wrong with Hollywood today, man. They have no respect.
Captain Garth of Izar.
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Kirk.
(I’m old; barely even watched anything past the original series.)
It’s Kirk and it’s no contest. Personally, I never made it through an entire episode of TNG. Maybe it also had to do with them bringing on Whoopie Goldberg.
Kirk of course.
This piece of emotional wreckage was the best captain
yeah, I know, I know, he was a Commodore, BFD