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- DAVE'S COMPARATIVE COMMANDER ANALYSIS
- By David Nurenberg, SKIOLD@AOL.COM
-
-
- Have you read my Star Trek Superiority
- Series yet?
-
- Read, laugh, and distribute like CRAZY - just please make sure I get
- the credit, I work hard on these! : )
-
- 4/95
-
- No matter what Star Trek subs and message boards you peruse, we
- inevitably come upon the question of WHO'S THE BEST CAPTAIN? We here
- at the Skiold Foundation for Comparative Commander Analysis feel it
- neccesary to compare each leader in both subjective and objective
- contexts - namely, how would each face a situation that another
- triumphed over? Thus, we present four separate questions and
- incidents, with responses from our four captains, PLUS, at no extra
- charge, feedback from various other commanders we've had a chance to
- meet:
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- _______
- QUESTION #1: Your first officer of 20 years and trusted friend
- seemingly dies to save your vessel. You later discover that he is, in
- fact, alive, and being regenerated on a distant planet in a forbidden
- zone. Going afte r him will wind up costing you your rank, your
- vessel, and possibly a family member as well. What do you do?
-
- CAPTAIN KIRK
-
- "I'd go after Spock, no question - who else in Starfleet is
- willing to put up with me? My ever-loyal bridge crew would be more
- than willing to help me steal my old ship and sabotage any pursuers,
- and we'd somehow manage to outwit any opposition we'd encounter, from a
- single Klingon ship right on up to...hell, right on up to the planet
- exploding! If Starfleet gets angry, I'd just find a way to save the
- universe again, and they'd be so grateful they'd pardon me."
-
- CAPTAIN PICARD
-
- "I'd try all the normal, diplomatic channels, of course. If that
- failed, I'd send Worf and Data in a shuttlecraft to effect a rescue,
- while I monitored from the safety of the ENTERPRISE. If worst came to
- worst, Number One is replaceable - Commander Shelby's much better
- looking than Will, any day."
-
- COMMANDER SISKO
-
- "I'd sympathize with Major Kira's plight, and do all I could
- trough the proper diplomatic channels. Failing in that, what more can
- I do except radio in to Bajor for a replacement? I'm used to women
- being whisked out of my life, you know, and no way am I going to let
- Jake-O get killed just to save some Bajoran fanatic who was living on
- borrowed time anyway."
-
- CAPTAIN JANEWAY
-
- "The same as Captain Kirk, but I'd take my full crew, dammit!
- They knew the risks when they signed aboard!"
-
- CAPTAIN KURN
-
- "If my first officer died with honor, like a true Klingon, than
- snatching him from the grave would deface him as a warrior. If he died
- a coward, then he is not worth retrieving, Fek'Lar eat his bones!"
-
- COMMANDER TOMALAK
-
- "I would be very suspicious of the news of my first officer's
- revival. This sounds distinctly like a Federation trick to lure my
- ship across the neutral zone."
-
- GUL DUKAT
-
- "I would not take my vessel into any zone that Central Command
- has deemed forbidden - to do so would be treason against the state. If
- my first officer has somehow gotten himself into one of these
- `forbidden zone,' I question his motives and loyalty. If he ever
- showed his face again, I would contact the Obsidian Order immediately."
-
- THE GRAND NAGUS:
-
- "A planet that resurrects you? What a find! I'd make such a
- profit, it'd be unbelievable! Hell, my whole family could get blown
- apart if it meant latinum!"
-
- LOCUTUS, OF BORG:
-
- "One life is irrelevant. If he has left the collective, he will
- merely be re-assimilated when we inevitably conquer that sector."
-
- HAN SOLO
-
- "Hey, Chewie's my friend and all, but you said the FALCON would
- be destroyed? Then he's one toasted Wookie - sorry, pal."
-
- Q
-
- "What a ridiculous question. If he died I'd simply bring him
- back to life and transport him home, simple as that."
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- _______
-
- QUESTION #2: While disguised on a surveillance mission of a primitive
- culture, your advanced, alien nature is exposed, and the inhabitants
- start worshipping you as a god. Their entire societal development
- threatens to take a backward turn, plunging them into the dark ages.
- To prove them wrong you must be willing to be shot with an arrow to
- show you can die. What do you do?
-
- CAPTAIN KIRK
-
- "Get shot? Are you out of your mind? If the damage has already
- been done, take advantage of it, man! Let me tell you, I'd ask for
- LOTS of virgin sacrifices, if you know what I mean, heh heh. If
- Starfleet found out, I'd have Spock muddle their computers or
- something, or else I'd just save the universe again so they'd forgive
- me."
-
- CAPTAIN PICARD
-
- "I'd sit down and explain to them in every possible manner that I
- am not what they think I am. If Eventually, though, I would trust in
- Beverly to get that damn arrow out of my chest - assuming Will wasn't
- available as a better target."
-
- COMMANDER SISKO
-
- "I'd try every possible diplomatic alternative. The prime
- directive, however, has loopholes for the welfare of Starfleet
- personnel - no damn way am I taking an arrow. There's no time like the
- present to welcome that primitive culture into the 24th century."
-
- CAPTAIN JANEWAY
-
- "Oh, that would be terrible, terrible...we'd have violated the
- prime directive, and it wouldn't even be in search of coffee...I
- suppose I'd take it, then, and hope that snippy holographic doctor can
- sew me up again."
-
- CAPTAIN KURN
-
- "Bah! Arrows are not a threat. A true Klingon does not fear
- pain nor death, and no honor would be gained in conquering such
- primitives. They can think whatever they want of me, I would leave to
- EARN my glory elsewhere
- "
-
- COMMANDER TOMALAK
-
- "We'd round up all of those who saw us, interrogate them for just
- how much they knew, and then bring them back as slaves to Romulus. We
- can't take any chances that a Federation expedition would arrive and
- learn any of our carefully guarded secrets through them."
-
- GUL DUKAT
-
- "What do you mean accidentally? Cardassians do not make
- mistakes. If anything even close to such an error occurred, we would
- simply wipe out the population and strip mine their planet. We
- wouldn't go through the effort of building an ore-processing station
- above it, though....it didn't turn out too well the last time."
-
- THE GRAND NAGUS:
-
- "What, get shot, and give up a whole race of worshippers? Free
- labor! Profit for all, but mainly for me! Hahahaha!"
-
- LOCUTUS, OF BORG
-
- "Religion and worship are irrelevant. Resistance, through their
- arrows, would be futile. We would assimilate them all."
-
- HAN SOLO
-
- "An arrow? Are you joking? Who cares what a buncha spear
- wielding furballs think - Chewie and I'd blast outta there like
- nobody's business!"
-
- Q
-
- What's wrong with them worshipping me as a god?
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- QUESTION#3: An expedition into an unknown region of space accidentally
- yields a hostile, advanced, unrelenting alien empire who will wipe out
- your entire society if you don't collapse the wormhole that leads
- there. This, of course, will also deprive you of the scientific
- wonders that lay beyond, not to mention your job. What do you do?
-
- CAPTAIN KIRK
-
- "Disguise myself as one of them, sneak aboard their ship, bed the
- most highly placed female in their military, and, if all else failed,
- threaten them with a bluff so ridiculous that they can't believe it's a
- bluff, causing them to back off and leave us alone. For example,
- there's this element called Corbomite that we carry on our ships..."
-
- CAPTAIN PICARD
-
- "There must be some diplomatic way of settling this. Failing
- that, collapse the wormhole."
-
- COMMANDER SISKO:
-
- "There must be some diplomatic way of settling this. Failing
- that, collapse the wormhole."
-
- CAPTAIN JANEWAY
-
- "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through - I'd take my
- ship right into the heart of their space and blow their command center
- to smithereens. Unless they brewed some really great coffee, in which
- case we'd tale some of that, first."
-
- CAPTAIN KURN
-
- "Collapse the wormhole? And deny ourselves years of glorious
- battle? You must be insane!"
-
- COMMANDER TOMALAK
-
- "We would not collapse so strategic a find - let them attack,
- they'll not find Romulus wanting."
-
- GUL DUKAT
-
- "Allow an outsider to threaten Cardassian interests? You make me
- laugh. Moreso, you make me suspicious. How could you even suggest
- such a thing could occur? It could not, you know. Are you harboring
- any other such notions?"
-
- THE GRAND NAGUS
-
- "What's the big deal? Bribe the hell out of them - there's no
- disagreement in existence that a little latinum won't smooth over.
- What do they want? Starships? Girls? Weapons? Those cool little
- communicators with sound boards that actually WORK?"
-
- LOCUTUS, OF BORG
-
- "Their resistance would be futile. They would be assimilated.
- You ALL will become one with the Borg."
-
- HAN SOLO
-
- "Start wars? Collapse wormholes? Let me tell you, buddy, the
- second I saw even one warship bearing down on me I'd hyper out of there
- so fast they'd be choking on my engine exhaust....huh? What do you
- mean, Chewie, the hyperdrive's not working again?!?"
-
- Q
-
- Yawn. I'd blink and wipe out their entire race. It worked for
- Kevin Uxbridge, right?
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
-
- QUESTION#4 While pursing a group of criminals, your ship is
- accidentally tossed thousands of light years away, into an uncharted
- part of the galaxy. With no clear way home, how do you prevent mutiny
- and despair?
-
- CAPTAIN KIRK
-
- "A whole new quadrant of babes to woo? Hmmm....tempting as that
- may be, I'd have Spock and Scotty figure out some way to get us home,
- and maybe even save the universe a few times in the process."
-
- CAPTAIN PICARD
-
- "I'd get that brat Wesely to call up his friend, the Travelers,
- to get us home."
-
- COMMANDER SISKO:
-
- "I'd look for a wormhole. Hey, if it worked once..."
-
- CAPTAIN JANEWAY:
-
- "I'd make a highly successful science fiction show about my
- adventures that would launch an entire TV network."
-
- COMMANDER KURN:
-
- "New worlds to conquer for the empire? New challenges, and
- opportunities for glory undreampt of! I would kill any man that
- revolted."
-
- COMMANDER TOMALAK:
-
- "Impossible. There exists no way to cover such a distance in so
- little time. More Federation lies, designed to break down my resolve!
- You shall never best us! Glory to the Praetor!"
-
- GUL DUKAT
-
- "You even suggest that a Cardassian would become lost? Your
- loyalty IS in question, then! Do you know your pledge to the state?
- Recite it! Right now! Expect a visit from the Obsidian Order VERY
- soon, my friend."
-
- THE GRAND NAGUS:
-
- "A whole quadrant that doesn't know our tricks? Trillions of new
- suckers to bilk for everything they have? Ha! Why would I ever want to
- leave?
-
- LOCUTUS, OF BORG:
-
- "Location is irrelevant. We would carry on our directive to
- assimilate all life. You WILL become one with the Borg."
-
- HAN SOLO
-
- "Chewie? Is that hyperdrive working yet?"
-
- Q
-
- Big deal. I'd snap my fingers and send myself back home.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- ___________
-
- Thus concludes this edition of Dave's Comparative Commander
- Analysis. We part with a final word from Han Solo:
-
- "Chewie...c'mon...I didn't MEAN I would leave you on that planet! Fix
- the hyperdrive! Please! That Borg ship is getting closer!"
-
-
- * * *
-
- THE END
-
- * * *
-
-
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-
- "There is no dilemma that can not be solved by a disciplined
- Cardassian mind."
-
- "Anyone can blow up a ship, hah!" (Gul Dukat)
-
- Gul Dukat
- Commander of the Second Order
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