Who would make a better US President: Captain Kirk of Star Trek or Capt. Picard !

Who would make a better US President: Captain Kirk of Star Trek or Capt. Picard of STNG?

Compare the values of each to determine who would make the best American. Capt. Kirk goes after the problem and isn't afraid to get it done at the moment it happens. Capt. Picard is more of a diplomat and takes things more slowly.

3 days ago
I choose Captain Kirk. He has guts, determination, willingness to listen and to accept a peaceful solution, knows how to get things done, AND, he has a full head of hair. Picard, well, if he can't find a cure for baldness in the 23rd century he can only talk, not much of a fighter.

3 days ago
I choose Captain Kirk. He has guts, determination, willingness to listen and to accept a peaceful solution, knows how to get things done, AND, he has a full head of hair. Picard, well, if he can't find a cure for baldness in the 23rd century he can only talk, not much of a fighter.

While Picard was independantly a wiser man than Kirk, Kirk was much better at getting together a competent team of officers to advise him. (I'm not trekkie enough to know whether Starfleet gave captains much choice in the selection of their officers, but for argument's sake I'll assume it did). Picard's confidantes were a hotshot poker player, a short-tempered Klingon, a revealingly clad sentimentalist, a medical doctor who he had a crush on, and a bartender who always sounded like she was reading out of a children's book. Kirk, on the other hand, had the combined and strangely complimentary wisdom of Spock and Dr. McCoy to draw on. The ability to harness and coordinate the talents of others and take counsel from those wiser than onesself are marks of a great leader, if you ask me. There was never any question of who was in charge on the first enterprise, but man, did Kirk lead a crew.

I think this nation needs a Kirk more than a Piccard. Right now we have a President who has surrounded himself with sycophants who never have the nerve to tell him anything but what he wants to hear. (With good reason, from a career standpoint--they'd get fired). We need someone who, like Reagan, surrounds himself with people ready to point out the holes in his own ideas, but with whom he can effetively cooperate to boldly go where no president has gone before.