101 Reasons Why Picard Is Better Than Kirk

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1. Kirk was a leader of followers. That's the only reason he (almost) got away with it.

2. Picard's worst episodes were originally written for Kirk.

3. Picard discovers new life, new civilizations and strange new worlds, not discarded movie sets from period 1950's dramas.

4. Picard can act out entire Shakespearean plays, not merely remember 1 or 2 lines.

5. Picard can get his ship to orbit a planet in both directions.

6. Picard would never ever date a shape-shifter who had previously morphed into a little girl.

7. Picard doesn't need to wear glasses.

8. Picard has so much back-bone Starfleet designers had to cut out a section of his command chair for it all to fit in.

9. Picard didn't have to reprogram a computer to give him better grades in order to graduate from Starfleet Academy.

10. Picard has to contend with crap Starfleet Admirals. If he stole a starship, he'd get vaporized, not given captaincy of a new one like in the easy old days.

11. Picard commands his ship using the big head.

12. Picard has a ship whose engines can take it.

13. Three words: seven whole seasons.

14. Picard never uses Grecian 2000.

15. Picard has to contend with the "Prime Directive" - a ruling imposed on him by Starfleet after they saw what a complete shambles resulted when they let Kirk meet new alien races.

16. The only way Picard would allow tribbles on his ship would be as hors d'oeuvres.

17. Picard never met Joan Collins.

18. Picard's bridge doesn't sound like an aviary.

19. Picard participates in the odd archaeological dig. Kirk would make a suitable subject for one.

20. One question: to which Captain would you entrust the safety of your daughter?

21. Picard is far too cool to beam down to a planet, strip to his waist and wrestle with some guy in a rubber lizard suit. He lets his First Officer do all that for him.

22. Picard never shot his best friend's body into space in a photon torpedo.

23. Kirk probably thinks a concerto is a kind of ice cream dessert.

24. Picard doesn't need hair - real or not.

25. Picard's crew are too sophisticated to be taken over by a bunch of women in go-go boots and have the most intelligent person aboard controlled by a box that has less buttons than a Super Nintendo joypad.

26. One word: SQUISHED (what would happen to Kirk and his ship had he met the Borg and tried to deal with them in the same manner as he deals with most other things).

27. Kirk, almost single-handedly, re-populated the Earth's whale population. Just goes to show how questionable his sexual practices really are.

28. If their situations were reversed, Kirk would probably nail Troi. Picard has standards.

29. Kirk can just about drive a stick-shift. Picard sells Pontiacs during the commercial break.

30. Picard has a real bar aboard his ship.

31. Picard would never have let his second in command irradiate himself in the engine room.

32. While Kirk did make most of the decisions aboard his ship, this was only because advice from his crew was almost exclusively limited to "That's illogical Captain", "It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim", "It's life, but not as we know it..." and "Klingons on the starboard bow." Small wonder really.

33. Unlike Kirk's, Picard's middle name doesn't sound like an infectious disease.

34. You'd never have to clean Picard's semen out of the holodeck after he'd used it.

35. Kirk once made a cannon out of bamboo, sulfur, potassium nitrate & charcoal and used it to fire diamonds into the hearts of his enemies. Picard is a starship captain, not MacGyver.

36. Picard has only stooped to the dire act of feigning illness to attract a guard's attention once.

37. Kirk has to fight Klingons to get his way. Picard only has to tell them what to do.

38. Picard would never wear eye makeup. Ever.

39. Picard has a small, convenient hands-free communicator, not a Fisher Price spin-n-whizz baby toy.

40. Picard would never let himself get turned into a woman.

41. Picard and his crew can solve a week's mystery in 44 minutes flat. Kirk used to take 50 plus.

42. Picard never has to sign an Etch-a-Sketch attendance register kept by Yeomans with hair like a helter-skelter.

43. Picard never cries in front of his crew when one of them gets killed.

44. Picard never has pretentious episode titles like, "For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky".

45. Kirk is so boring he's caused several computers to self-destruct merely by talking to them.

47. Picard knows how to make a starship last. Kirk has gone through 3 already; that's a trifle careless.

48. Picard's engineers never lie to him about how long it takes to fix something, because no one, not even Starfleet engineers, mess with Picard.

49. Okay, so Picard is French. But at least he speaks with an English accent.

50. Picard chews out Klingons. Kirk chews on Klingons.

51. Picard can climb rocks without falling off.

52. Picard's uniform fits. Particularly around the midriff.

53. Picard had a large serrated knife pushed into his back, through his heart and out his chest.... and he just Laughed at it!!

54. Kirk fights like Adam West.

55. Picard blows up another starship more than once a season.

56. Picard never has Russians aboard his ship. Kirk has one at the helm.

57. Picard never has to put bits of Lego into his computers to make them work.

58. Picard made sure all the beds in his sickbay looked even more uncomfortable than Kirk's so he'd have fewer slackers.

59. Picard's phaser fires a burst of potentially lethal energy. It does not fire a stream of red felt-tip pen.

60. Women chase Picard. Kirk has to go out and bag his (except for the ones with green skin.)

61. Picard never needs a pessimistic Scotty to beam him out of the crap when things get ugly.

62. When Picard has a holiday he goes home, gets drunk and brawls. Kirk sits at a camp-fire toasting marshmallows while singing "Row, row, row, your boat" .

63. Picard ate Romulan soup and didn't even flinch. Much.

64. The Klingons in Kirk's day were real wusses.

65. Kirk never drinks tea. Ever.

66. Picard's girlfriends just look good. In any light.

67. Picard once sent an entire ship full of people through a worm-hole to their certain doom. And just because his bartender suggested it might be a laugh to do so.

68. Picard doesn't need to jump through big stone doughnuts to travel in time.

69. Remember the time when the Captain of the Enterprise was a slow-moving, monosyllabic automaton with a funny name? But enough about Kirk, wasn't Picard terrific as a Borg?

70. Kirk only managed to make himself look relatively attractive by carefully selecting his crew; contrast is everything.

71. Picard has only ever gone crazy once, and then he did something really cool like draw a smiley face in the cloud emanating from a warp core explosion.

72. Picard would never let his son get killed by Klingons.

73. Two words: Command presence.

74. If Kirk ever met a Ferengi, he'd probably try to mate with it.

75. Kirk never wore green tights and frolicked around Sherwood Forest. Kirk has no sense of humour.

76. Kirk's First Officer played some form of Vulcan harp, an instrument that makes the trombone look like just about the most macho thing this side of Kirk's wig.

77. How many innocent yellow-shirted security officers have been killed by crazed aliens who had taken pot shots at them in the mistaken belief that they were actually shooting at Kirk.

78. Kirk commands his ship as if he's driving a tractor across an Iowa wheat field.

79. When Picard was 37, he was the Captain of the lowly 'Stargazer'. Starfleet soon learned the value of "progressive experience" having witnessed the disastrous consequences of letting someone take charge of a real ship when their previous vehicular experience extended only as far as driving a tractor across an Iowa wheat field.

80. If Kirk had a doctor like Beverly Crusher, Starfleet would have to relocate the command chair to sick-bay.

81. Picard has more than one token black on his crew.

82. Picard isn't afraid to go places without a security team.

83. Picard doesn't wear pansy sailor-boy markings on his cuffs.

84. Picard has shuttlecraft that can travel faster than Kirk's ship.

85. Picard would never have said "He's had too much LDS".

86. Picard never has to say stupid things like, "I...am a Gr'up!" in front of young teenage girls who fancy him.

87. Picard was actually in his own show's pilot episode.

88. Picard never visits planets that look suspiciously like a Californian desert.

89. Picard won't spend his retirement writing science fiction books or making cameo appearances in Zemeckis & Zemeckis films.

90. Picard was never demoted to a lieutenant in the L.A. Police Department.

91. Picard's doctor doesn't have to keep reminding him what her job is.

92. Picard doesn't have to operate his turbo lifts using hand pumps.

93. Picard's main viewer is a 200 inch hi-definition TV with Nicam and Pro-Logic surround-sound.

94. Picard's ego wouldn't demand $7 million for a 10 minute appearance in a movie.

95. Picard can spend more than 15 minutes on a planet before being shot at or locked up.

96. Picard's ship was never taken over by a door-to-door salesman.

97. If the Borg had assimilated Kirk, they wouldn't have learned anything.

98. Picard's First Officer eats the things that attack Kirk in alien forests.

99. Picard would never attack his own ship.

100. Imagine you have to impose your authority: "This is Captain Jean Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. Now introduce yourself as "James Tiberius Kirk, but you can call me Jim." See the difference?

101. Who ever heard of the Patrick Stewart foundation?

[Tina 0]

Yeah:D

[Jim Phaserman 0]

I have issues with only one of these...

 

 

83. Picard doesn't wear pansy sailor-boy markings on his cuffs.

[Stelfan 0]

GO PICARD!

[Ace 0]

Good ones. ( 13 and 18).

[Tina 0]

Wait...I like Sailor cuffs....

[Jim Phaserman 0]

I like em too! this nice gold stripe on my sleeve is very appealing.

[ussacclaim 0]

I loved reading this list!! Picard rocks

 

Don't forget the first thing Picard did when that terrorist Finn beamed onto the Bridge..Hit Him! even though it got him taken prisoner. Nice right hand Picard.

 

Plus, Jim Kirk was never the sole holder of the information of the entire civilization of Kataan.

[Tina 0]

Yeah Jim!

 

They are so elegant,especially when the ship is coming into harbor and all of the men are standing on the deck at full attention

 

:<_<: I love the Navy

[Jim Phaserman 0]

That's the best part of the deployment, manning the rails in the dress uniform, looking for your family.

[Tina 0]

Oh one more thing Jim

 

What Battleship is that?I thought they retired or Mothballed them after Vietnam(looks like the Iowa)..

[Tina 0]

Yeah..My Dad wore one on the Enterprise...he he ..he looked silly though .But he was 18 ,He did not care

[Jim Phaserman 0]

I think the pic is of the Oregon, which was retired after WWII. I'd have to check the site I got it from, though.

 

 

the Iowa class wasn't retired for the final time until after the Gulf War (I was baptised aboard USS New Jersey (BB-62))

[Tina 0]

The New Jersey!?!

 

Its in Camden,NJ as a Museaum ( I actually went to see it).MY Dad saw it in Vietnam ..The Iowa was built in Brooklyn..and The New Jersy was built in.Jersey..

 

::kicks her Dad for all this usless Military knowlege::

[Jim Phaserman 0]

baptised just ahead of the Forward 16 inch gunmount. you might say that from the begining I was destined to be a sailor.

[Tina 0]

LOL

 

Thats one big M-fer gun though...

 

I guess you were destined to be one.

[Odo 0]

Exelcent list.

[Mr.Picard 12]

I agree...

 

Wonderful list, indeed.... Jean-Luc is the best.

[StarfleetMarine 0]

101 Reasons Why Picard Is Better Than Kirk

 

Eh, I don't care. They are both good captains. I like Kirk just a bit more.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named 2]

29. Kirk can just about drive a stick-shift. Picard sells Pontiacs during the commercial break.

During the filming of "Best of Both Worlds" Stewart, in his Locutus makeup, had his face appear on a mock viewscreen they used for filming purposes. As a joke he said "Resistance is futile! Have you ever considered owning a Pontiac?" They had to stop filming for the day because no one could stop laughing!

[borgdrone222 0]

picard could kill that villain. kirk couldn't