Really. Picard was a timeserving politician who gave the enemy everything they wanted.
Kirk was a no nonsense risk taker. The kind of guy who went ahead into unknown territory to explore. His crew held that ship together with rubber bands at his command and ran at warp speed with nothing but spit and bailing wire holding the engines together.
His crew held that ship together with rubber bands at his command and ran at warp speed with nothing but spit and bailing wire holding the engines together.
Right. He has two sets of totally contradictory values and he always sticks to them. One week he sticks to one set, and the next week he sticks to the other.
(Actually, I like Picard better than Kirk too. It was mainly in the early episodes that he was such a socialist/multi-culturalist prig. Then there's the whole Shakespearean-trained actor trying to play a frog thing, but I solved that. I just stopped thinking of him as French.)
I always thought Brent Spiner did a great acting job for the part. Not entirely consistent, but I'm not sure anyone could have been given the rather stringent restrictions he faced.
Sisko was cool. I liked him. DS9 just didn't have the good stories. As a friend of mine put it, "our new mission: to boldly stay in one place, like no one's ever stayed before..."