Chuck Norris. Beard phasers.
Captain Steven Seagal would be amusing too.
WORF: “Captain, the Borg cube is approaching.”
CAPTAIN SEAGAL: “Mumble mumble mumble.”
WORF: “Excuse me?”
SEAGAL: “Mumble grumble mmmf brrrrrrrgg.”
DATA: “I believe he is ordering us to fire torpedoes, or possibly asking for a chicken caesar wrap.”
SEAGAL: “Grumble mumble mumble.”
TROI: “I’m sensing… nothing.”
No. Either he or Lien were going to be cut to make room for Ryan, then he was chosen as one of People’s sexiest people, so he was spared.
Anybody that would bet credits to Navy [URL=“http://www.hark.com/clips/drcjtdbdwl-but-ill-bet-you-credits-to-navy-beans”]beans needs to be a Captain.
Star Trek; Cybership
Capt; Marvin the Paranoid Android
First Officer; Bender
Security; ED-209
Science; C3PO
Engineering; R2D2
Medical; Kryten
Computer voice/image; Holly (female)
I now have to mop up my entrails after busting my gut from that visual. :D:D:D
Operation Petticoat: The Pink Years
He comes across as a really good guy at DragonCon, where he is now actually in charge of the Trek track. He got some really big names there last year, so he must not be hated too much.
Hell, why not go with the cast of Philadelphia Story: Grant as Kirk, Katherine Hepburn as Spock and Jimmy Stewart as Bones.
Eh - there’s nothing wrong with having the captain written that way, especially if she gradually becomes thus under the constant stress of survival in the Delta Quadrant. The problem is that none of the other characters ever noticed Janeway was a murderous harpy, with very rare exceptions.
He’s not tough enough.
Why should they? Aren’t they under the same pressures?
Except that she doesn’t *gradually *become that way. She veers back & forth between Kirkian recklessness, Picardian probity, Siskoesque ruthlessness, and Izarian wackiness.
Imagine all the awesome fight scenes we’d get where Captain Seagal trades a couple punches with a Borg drone, then twists and breaks the drone’s neck, then trades punches with the next drone and twists and breaks his neck.
In general correct (line vs support), but I would argue Uhura. Yes, she’s wearing red, which is Operations, not Command, but so is Scotty. In a traditional military, just because someone serves in one position doesn’t mean that’s the only discipline they will ever serve in. Using Weber’s Harrington novels as an example, someone might start as ensign of, say, navigation and get experience as the junior officer in that role, then get promoted to leutenant jg and shift to tactical, and then get moved to Intelligence and serve as an analyst, before getting promoted to a Staff position as the clerk for an Admiral. That way, they get lots of experience that shapes them for their eventual command. That makes much more sense than taking a guy, starting as junior helm, promoting him to senior helm, promoting him to Exec/Helm, and then finally making him Captain/Helmsman.
Given that Spock wears blue even though he is Exec (and therefore in command line), and Scotty wears Red (even though Second officer and in command line), I see no problem that Uhura could have been the Communications Officer, but also eventually move on to a command position.
On the other hand, her role might have been a more technical discipline, and maybe even had Intelligence/Analyst aspects that are never mentioned but implied, and her career path was slated to a technical support discipline rather than command.
Yeah, though he had a few good excuses for delay. The time when he would have been first slated for promotion to Captain, he was busy on sabatical going through intense study on Vulcan for his emotional depurging. Then the whole lot of them got assigned to the Academy as training officers, and thus crewed the training vessel Enterprise to babysit the cadets. Then he died, and got reincarnated, and wasn’t quite himself. Not sure what happened once Kirk retired, but eventually he left Starfleet for a diplomatic career.
Probably not because he couldn’t take the command role if he desired that track, but because his interests and skills would be taken into account in his promotion track. He might make an adequate captain of a vessel, but he’d be more interested in the engines than the crew. Rather put him in command of engineering personnel and development of new systems, overseeing fleets, etc.
That’s what ratings are for - all those guys running around in jumpsuits. They’re the enlisted personnel that were hidden in plain sight.
Like I said, starts in one junior officer position, migrates job assignments as promotions in order to get a broader experience base.
I am in awe at this parade of Trekian descriptors. Well done, sir, well done!
Uhura twice wore Command gold, in “The Corbomite Manuever” and “Mudd’s Women”: Nyota Uhura | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Viggo Mortensen
Robert Patrick
Annabeth Gish
Not bad. Someday you and I really must talk. 
An amusing thread could be made about who would be the worst casting choices for captain:
Keanu Reeves: “Captain! Romulan Warbirds uncloaking!” “Whoa!”
Drew Barrymore: “If anyone neeeeeds me, I’ll totally be in my Ready Room.”
Jerry Seinfeld: “What’s the deal with all these Tribbles?”
Funny you should say that, as I wasn’t satisfied with it. Kirk wasn’t truly reckless; though he was a risk-taker with his own life if that was what it took to accomplish a mission, he didn’t like risking the lives of others. The nearest thing to true recklessness I can think of was his goading Spock into a fight in Jill Ireland episode; I thought by that point it should have been clear to him that the strength difference between him and Spock was too great for that to be a reasonable course of action.
Fanwanking on: I’m sure that the junior officers have to go from department to department during the course of their careers, just on general principles. Sulu was in botany for a while; it’s clear that Sisko came up through Engineering. In fact, I think anybody who aims to be a ship captain is going to be required to work in multiple ship’s department–possibly everything but Medicine.
Speaking of which, among the worst casting choices …
Mel Brooks: “Gentlemen! Our mission is to protect our phoney baloney jobs!”
Cloris Leachman: “Briefing room at 1700. Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.”
Although, she would have been fun as Guinan.