Star Trek discussion thread

[Darth Knox]

Whether you're a fan of Kirk or Picard, Janeway or Sisko, the tv shows or the movies, we can chat about it all here.

To get the ball rolling, my question to the group is this: Who would you choose to be in your ideal crew?
You can pick characters from any show to fill the following roles-

1- Captain
2- No 1
3- Chief Science officer
4- Chief Engineer
5- Doctor
6- Navigator/Pilot
7- Head of security

My choices would be:

1- Picard
2- Spock
3- Dax
4- Miles Edward O'Brien
5- The Doctor (Hologram from Voyager who I refuse to call Joe)
6- Tom Paris
7- Worf

[GregG124]

Where are you Darth J! I just learned she's a major trekkie.

While I enjoy William Shatner and Chris pine both, I'd have to say I prefer Capt. Picard (because Sir Patrick Steward that's why)

[Iram]

WHOOP WHOOP! Hop on the Star Trek train!

1-Kirk
2-Spock
3-Spock
4-Phlox!
5-EMH (from VOY)
6-Sulu or Data
7-Malcolm Reed

[Darth Knox]

WHOOP WHOOP! Hop on the Star Trek train!

1-Kirk
2-Spock
3-Spock
4-Phlox!
5-EMH (from VOY)
6-Sulu or Data
7-Malcolm Reed

Sulu or Data, you have to choose one.
And that's a very bold choice choosing Phlox (who is a doctor) as your chief engineer

[Molina00]

This may not be the ideal crew but they are more or less my favorites at their positions.  Picard, The Doctor and Worf were very close seconds for their spots.  While Worf is great, I love Odo's personality.  Plus shapeshifter.  

1- Sisko
2- Riker
3- Dax
4- Tucker
5- McCoy
6- Paris
7- Odo

[Molina00]

WHOOP WHOOP! Hop on the Star Trek train!

1-Kirk
2-Spock
3-Spock
4-Phlox!
5-EMH (from VOY)
6-Sulu or Data
7-Malcolm Reed

A very bold choice indeed.  

I thought about Reed as security/tactical too, I was a big fan of the Reed/Tucker friendship, but Odo is hard to beat.

Wasn't Data more like the science officer?  

[Darth Knox]

This may not be the ideal crew but they are more or less my favorites at their positions.  Picard, The Doctor and Worf were very close seconds for their spots.  While Worf is great, I love Odo's personality.  Plus shapeshifter.  

1- Sisko
2- Riker
3- Dax
4- Tucker
5- McCoy
6- Paris
7- Odo

I love Riker. He was the Kirk of the TNG crew. He would sleep with anything. It was a close decision between him and Spock on my list.

A very bold choice indeed. 

I thought about Reed as security/tactical too, I was a big fan of the Reed/Tucker friendship, but Odo is hard to beat.

Wasn't Data more like the science officer? 

Data was more the science officer on TNG but he also did a lot of stuff in engineering with Geordie.

Speaking of engineers, the reason I picked O'Brien, while there are a lot of genius engineers in the Trek-verse (like Scotty) but O'Brien managed to combine Federation, Cardassian and Bajoran technology together and make it work. Whenever he left the station everything started going wrong. That's why he pipped Scotty for me.

[Molina00]

I love Riker. He was the Kirk of the TNG crew. He would sleep with anything. It was a close decision between him and Spock on my list.
Data was more the science officer on TNG but he also did a lot of stuff in engineering with Geordie.

Speaking of engineers, the reason I picked O'Brien, while there are a lot of genius engineers in the Trek-verse (like Scotty) but O'Brien managed to combine Federation, Cardassian and Bajoran technology together and make it work. Whenever he left the station everything started going wrong. That's why he pipped Scotty for me.

O'Brien is definitely a great choice.  That's the problem with something like this, there are so many great choices for almost every position.  Except for helm.  You have Paris and Sulu and that's about it.  I always thought it was funny how O'Brien ended up being the whipping boy for DS9.  If anything bad could happen, it happened to him. 

About the only way I could justify not picking Kirk is having Riker.  He didn't shy away from a fight either. 

[Darth Knox]

O'Brien is definitely a great choice.  That's the problem with something like this, there are so many great choices for almost every position.  Except for helm.  You have Paris and Sulu and that's about it.  I always thought it was funny how O'Brien ended up being the whipping boy for DS9.  If anything bad could happen, it happened to him. 

About the only way I could justify not picking Kirk is having Riker.  He didn't shy away from a fight either. 

It's GREAT that there is so much choice. At helm you also have Travis and Wesley.....well Travis anyway! Lol

In DS9 the writers had a saying at the beginning of each season: "O'Brein must suffer!". As he was just a blue collar guy doing his job and then going home to his family it made the audience feel it all the more when he suffered. plus Colm Meaney is just an amazing actor.

And just for fun here is something I just saw on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/chrispinefansite/posts/1058500217535382

[Darth Justicar]

Phone browser crashed for some reason.  Going to TRY not to totally stack the deck with DS9, but...yeah, it's mostly gonna happen.

CO: Benjamin Sisko (only Trek captain I'd be confident enough to serve under even though he has his flaws)
XO/ChSci: Spock (would also make an interesting foil for Sisko and one other character...)
ChEng: Miles O'Brien (smart, able to improvise, down to earth, and whether or not he'll openly admit it, tactically skilled)
CMO: Julian Bashir (extremely gifted, being an Augment, but once he grows up as a person in later seasons, also very compassionate.  And he's hot.)
Helm: Hikaru Sulu (not a lot of dedicated helmsmen to choose from and I prefer him to Paris)
Tactical: Tuvok (while I am not a VOY fan, the opportunity to play him off of Spock intrigues me, plus I learned to respect him more playing Star Trek Online)
Counselor: Ezri Dax (the more likeable Dax...and in a counselor I like a professional who isn't arrogant and actually knows what it feels like to have felt insecure and vulnerable)

[Darth Knox]

Phone browser crashed for some reason.  Going to TRY not to totally stack the deck with DS9, but...yeah, it's mostly gonna happen.

CO: Benjamin Sisko (only Trek captain I'd be confident enough to serve under even though he has his flaws)
XO/ChSci: Spock (would also make an interesting foil for Sisko and one other character...)
ChEng: Miles O'Brien (smart, able to improvise, down to earth, and whether or not he'll openly admit it, tactically skilled)
CMO: Julian Bashir (extremely gifted, being an Augment, but once he grows up as a person in later seasons, also very compassionate.  And he's hot.)
Helm: Hikaru Sulu (not a lot of dedicated helmsmen to choose from and I prefer him to Paris)
Tactical: Tuvok (while I am not a VOY fan, the opportunity to play him off of Spock intrigues me, plus I learned to respect him more playing Star Trek Online)
Counselor: Ezri Dax (the more likeable Dax...and in a counselor I like a professional who isn't arrogant and actually knows what it feels like to have felt insecure and vulnerable)

YAY!! Justicar is here!

Ok, you forgot head of security and I purposely left counsellor off the list. Was saving that for another discussion later on. No biggie though.

And you preferred Ezri to Jadzia?  Really? 

Nice pick up on Tactical officer. I completely forgot about that.

What's you reasoning for choosing Sisko as captain?

[Iram]

Sulu or Data, you have to choose one.
And that's a very bold choice choosing Phlox (who is a doctor) as your chief engineer

Whoops! I read "Doctor" twice. lol as I recall Phlox was horrible at engineering stuff.

REVISED VERISON

1-Kirk
2-Spock
3-Spock
4-Geordi
5-EMH (from VOY)
6-Data
7-Malcolm Reed

Phone browser crashed for some reason.  Going to TRY not to totally stack the deck with DS9, but...yeah, it's mostly gonna happen.

CO: Benjamin Sisko (only Trek captain I'd be confident enough to serve under even though he has his flaws)
XO/ChSci: Spock (would also make an interesting foil for Sisko and one other character...)
ChEng: Miles O'Brien (smart, able to improvise, down to earth, and whether or not he'll openly admit it, tactically skilled)
CMO: Julian Bashir (extremely gifted, being an Augment, but once he grows up as a person in later seasons, also very compassionate.  And he's hot.)
Helm: Hikaru Sulu (not a lot of dedicated helmsmen to choose from and I prefer him to Paris)
Tactical: Tuvok (while I am not a VOY fan, the opportunity to play him off of Spock intrigues me, plus I learned to respect him more playing Star Trek Online)
Counselor: Ezri Dax (the more likeable Dax...and in a counselor I like a professional who isn't arrogant and actually knows what it feels like to have felt insecure and vulnerable)

1) Justicar is here!


2) YOU PLAY STO TOO?

[Darth Knox]

Whoops! I read "Doctor" twice. lol as I recall Phlox was horrible at engineering stuff.

REVISED VERISON

1-Kirk
2-Spock
3-Spock
4-Geordi
5-EMH (from VOY)
6-Data
7-Malcolm Reed

Love Phlox as a character (and his wife was hot) but he was just awful as an engineer. Great doctor though.

[Mastarius]

1-James Kirk: Let's face it, being a no name on his crew is a death sentence but it'll be a fun ride till then.
2-William Riker: Mostly for the fact that I know he ended up a successful captain plus the beard.
3-Spock: You really can't argue this, did TNG even have one?
4-Montgomery Scott: And I mean the original not Pegg, no offense but I like the original Scotty for his humor.
5-Beverly Crusher: As long as her son doesn't come with she's good, if it's a packaged deal I change my answer to McCoy.
6-Travis Mayweather: Can't really say why but I trust him with the ship.
7-Worf: Definitely would have a Klingon as head of security.

EDIT: And no, I have not seen DS9 nor Voyager.

[Iram]

1-James Kirk: Let's face it, being a no name on his crew is a death sentence but it'll be a fun ride till then.
2-William Riker: Mostly for the fact that I know he ended up a successful captain plus the beard.
3-Spock: You really can't argue this, did TNG even have one?
4-Montgomery Scott: And I mean the original not Pegg, no offense but I like the original Scotty for his humor.
5-Beverly Crusher: As long as her son doesn't come with she's good, if it's a packaged deal I change my answer to McCoy.
6-Travis Mayweather: Can't really say why but I trust him with the ship.
7-Worf: Definitely would have a Klingon as head of security.

EDIT: And no, I have not seen DS9 nor Voyager.

*GASP* DS9 is an essential series (well, VOY was cool too, but not as significant)