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[whos-the-hottest-st-character]

Who’s The Hottest Captain?

Intermission Poll

Let’s build the hottest crew

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - S2E2 New Eden

[reginaldqueribundus]

Star Trek TOS: what if the captain was a slut who got in fights all the time and did whatever the hell he wanted and it all sort of worked out anyway

TNG: what if the captain drank tea and gave speeches instead

DS9: what if the captain was a single father and religious figure trying to hold onto his morals in the face of an existential threat

Voyager: what if the captain was trying to get her unruly scout troop back home and also she had a GUN

Enterprise: what if the captain was a massive dweeb

Kelvin timeline: what if the first guy was actually a horny frat boy

Disco: what if the captain was a cryptofascist? no wait, what if he was just sooooooo handsome, like so mind-meltingly handsome that is just feels unfair? wait, what if he was a deer? no actually what if she did whatever the hell she wanted, but also felt emotions about it?

Picard: what if the captain was a secondary character driven into solitude by his PTSD, and then we suddenly replaced him with some dipshit from Chicago

Lower Decks: what if the captain was your well-meaning perfectionist mother

Prodigy: what if the captain was a purple teenager

SNW: what if the captain was your dad

[snek-of-eden]

doing this again because last time i forgot Archer accidentally:

[moiipon]

The goth kids and they "normies" friend's 👻

Stan is actually friend of the whole group and probably the least "poser" of all (Maybe Mike isn't that much either according to Pete)

[thehollowprince]

In has come to my attention that in my last poll I completely forgot about Captain Archer (and others), so we're doing this again.

Basically, pick whichever captain you'd work under in Star Fleet. But to make this interesting, you will be serving on their ships during the worst crisis of their career, just to make this a little more interesting.

[angrywarrior69]

You can NOT be a starfleet captain unless there is something deeply, inherently wrong with you

[the-number-thirty-eight]

Ooh-wee-hoo, I have broke the Prime Directive

Oh-oh, and they’ve built a Warp Core

[whymakedecisions]

Saw the version with the og 5 going around, so I thought I'd spread the deluxe (2x the chaos, double the potential for unhinged admirals) edition.

[startrekladies]

Please tell everyone I love them.

[curator-on-ao3]

Perhaps the essential nature of each captain and first officer dynamic:

Kirk and Spock: t'hy'la

Georgiou and Burnham: family

Chris and Una: asylum

Picard and Riker: respect

Sisko and Kira: reverence

Janeway and Chakotay: leaky parameters

Archer and T’Pol: dog surrounded by fire “this is fine” meme

Shaw and Seven: that time she calls him a dick and he agrees

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - S2E10 The Red Angel

[autisticburnham]

For the record, the reason I so badly want Michael to beat Pike in that captains tournament isn't just because of my dislike of Strange New Worlds. For those of you who weren't around/don't remember, when season 1 of Discovery came out (and still now, honestly), Michael and the show received a lot of virulent hatred. I'm not saying the show is above criticism- it has quite a few major problems (season 1 even pissed me off so badly I stopped watching for several months)- but a huge portion of the hatred and a lot of the "it just doesn't feel like Star Trek" seemed pretty clearly motivated by the fact that the lead character was a black woman and Lorca, Saru, and Stamets- the options to be able to focus on a white guy and pretend he was the main character instead- were evil, for lack of a more succinct term a beta, and otherwise "woke," respectively. The type of straight white guy who likes to pretend Star Trek is and always has been about him and only people like him didn't have a character to latch on to in season 1. And even the type of tumblrinas who like to make everything about white guys didn't latch on to anything because the gay ship was interracial. Not that anyone said any of this explicitly, but it was pretty clearly the vibe.

And then season 2 rolled around and suddenly there was a white guy everyone could pretend was the main character instead, and boy did they. Micheal felt like an afterthought in her own fanbase, which was particularly egregious given how much torture that season put her through. And everyone and their mother was clamoring for this white guy to get his own show because that would make it "feel like Star Trek" again. And Paramount gave those people what they wanted. They got a show with a white lead that was way more successful than Picard had managed to be up until that point and they stopped paying attention to Discovery before quietly canceling it- though not before adding in yet another white guy for no reason.

Pike stole the attention away from Michael on her own show and then stole her position as lead on the flagship series by simple virtue of being a white man, and I need some portion of the fan base to recognize how wrong that is. I desperately want, at least the tumblr corner of the fandom, to acknowledge that Pike isn't a better character than she is, he's just more marketable

[dinner-partys]

if i watch a random movie for my celebrity crush... am i a whore?

[archeryicons]

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