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Big Sexy Riker
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Picard.
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Miles was great in DS9 but pretty low visibility in TNG.

Data was the best; so many hilarious situations while studying human behavior.

Picard by a nose over Data.
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Nostradumbass posted...

Miles was great in DS9 but pretty low visibility in TNG.

Data was the best; so many hilarious situations while studying human behavior.

Yeah you right....
Unpopular opinion, I found Beverly Crusher hotter than Deanna Troi
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I feel like Guinan could've been on there too. I know she's always credited as a guest star, which I dunno why, but she's pretty much as frequent as Miles
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Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

nevershine posted...

Unpopular opinion, I found Beverly Crusher hotter than Deanna Troi

Me too. Redheads...
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nevershine posted...

Nostradumbass posted...

Miles was great in DS9 but pretty low visibility in TNG.

Data was the best; so many hilarious situations while studying human behavior.

Yeah you right....
Unpopular opinion, I found Beverly Crusher hotter than Deanna Troi

hmmm, i could go with that. Bev was milfy as fuck and had that great dancers bod.

Troi's titties were amaze though.

Data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4
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The Admiral posted...

Picard by a nose over Data.

Agreed
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nevershine posted...

Nostradumbass posted...

Miles was great in DS9 but pretty low visibility in TNG.

Data was the best; so many hilarious situations while studying human behavior.

Yeah you right....
Unpopular opinion, I found Beverly Crusher hotter than Deanna Troi

That's an unpopular opinion?
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Vyrulisse posted...

Data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4

I should've added Spot to the list
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

nevershine posted...

Nostradumbass posted...

Miles was great in DS9 but pretty low visibility in TNG.

Data was the best; so many hilarious situations while studying human behavior.

Yeah you right....
Unpopular opinion, I found Beverly Crusher hotter than Deanna Troi

That's an unpopular opinion?

Yeah cause boobs n such
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Toss up between Data and Picard for me. Data allowed them to express and explore a lot of existentialism story threads, and they were always interesting. However, Jean Luc Picard was always a bad ass character. My favourite episode was the one that involved him exploring who he was as a person, a past regret, and how changing that one point in his past altered his entire being as a member of Star Fleet. Such a good episode.
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Troi. Without her keen observations, I wouldn't have understood any of what was going on.

Troi: "I sense that nervous looking, super shady guy is hiding something, Captain."
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Troi really needed more episodes like the one where she goes undercover as a Romulan
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It's always been Worf, and he eventually ended up taking command of the Defiant in DS9.

If you remember the Next Generation episode "Conundrum," everyone on the Enterprise D lost their memory. Everyone was trying to figure out who was who but Worf immediately stepped up and started giving orders, many times to Picard, that ended up saving the ship.
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r4X0r posted...

It's always been Worf, and he eventually ended up taking command of the Defiant in DS9.

If you remember the Next Generation episode "Conundrum," everyone on the Enterprise D lost their memory. Everyone was trying to figure out who was who but Worf immediately stepped up and started giving orders, many times to Picard, that ended up saving the ship.

Like Miles, Worf is a better character on DS9. Early seasons TNG hes portrayed as a borderline animal at times, and even later hes frequently shown as incompetent or ineffective. On DS9, hes a badass.
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I thought Worf always got his ass kicked to the point the trope "Worf effect" was coined after him.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Troi really needed more episodes like the one where she goes undercover as a Romulan

Yeah, there was some potential to make her into something more than the person who points out the obvious, and it's too bad they didn't do anything with it.
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Character wise, Picard. He was always the voice of reason, put everyone before himself, and Patrick Steward was just great.

Entertainment wise, Data. Brent Spiner is honestly a bad actor, and a bad actor playing an android trying to be human just made nearly every scene with him to be so unintentionally funny.

Yeah but....
Data had Spot
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I find this lack of Q to be highly disturbing.
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Mofuji posted...

I find this lack of Q to be highly disturbing.

Yeah but he was a d-bag at the beginning
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nevershine posted...

Mofuji posted...

I find this lack of Q to be highly disturbing.

Yeah but he was a d-bag at the beginning

They were all annoying and horrible for the first two seasons.
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The Admiral posted...

Picard by a nose over Data.

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Kind of surprised Riker is getting some votes. He was okay, but the problem was that his character arc was finished in Best of Both Worlds. We see that he is indeed ready to make the tough call and become a captain. And then he goes on serving as first officer for the rest of the series.
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jpenny2 posted...

Kind of surprised Riker is getting some votes. He was okay, but the problem was that his character arc was finished in Best of Both Worlds. We see that he is indeed ready to make the tough call and become a captain. And then he goes on serving as first officer for the rest of the series.

The problem with Riker was that the show had to write him to be deliberately uncharacteristic just to give reasons for him to continue being on The Enterprise. In season 2, in the episode with his father, it's established that Riker's driving ambition in life was the be captain of his own ship. Riker was already overqualified for his own command before Best of Both Worlds, so it became absurd that he still refused command after the ridiculous loss of Federation leadership following the Borg attack.

The best and (and ballsiest) solution I ever heard about what to do with Riker was in an SF Debris review. In discussing Second Chances -- the episode where Riker finds that a clone was made of him during a transporter accident 8 years before -- he suggests that having the clone criticize Riker for having grown complacent and lost his ambitions should have finally been motivation for him to realize his career has stalled and accept command, leaving the show. In his place, the Riker clone would have joined the Enterprise crew as Lieutenant, allowing Frakes to stay on the show while adding a slightly different character. Data would have been promoted to first officer, and it would have been a show refresh.

For anyone curious:
http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t250.php
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I'm honestly surprised at the lack of la forge votes.....
I mean, did anyone else watch reading rainbow?
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nevershine posted...

I'm honestly surprised at the lack of la forge votes.....
I mean, did anyone else watch reading rainbow?

I mean he's fine, but he's way overshadowed by other characters.
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IIRC, Geordi was almost borderline recurring. Like he was the lowest tier main character. Not in quality, just in focus.
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Yeah... there isn't anything particularly interesting about Geordi aside from his anti-blindness visor, which didn't come up a lot. I'd say he's easily the most plain, average main character.

My ranking would be Data > Picard > Riker > Dr. Crusher > the rest > Wesley
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Hold up, time out...
Who the hell voted for Wesley?
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WilliamPorygon posted...

Yeah... there isn't anything particularly interesting about Geordi aside from his anti-blindness visor, which didn't come up a lot. I'd say he's easily the most plain, average main character.

My ranking would be Data > Picard > Riker > Dr. Crusher > the rest > Wesley

Yeah this is pretty much what I think, too...
But I think we can all agree that Riker with a beard owns Riker minus beard
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Deanna Troi can still get it.
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_OujiDoza_ posted...

Deanna Troi can still get it.

You right...I'd prolly drink her bath water
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Those Worf heavy episodes that were all about the Klingon Empire were always so boring in my opinion.

My vote goes to Picard or Data.
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Leight_Weight posted...

Those Worf heavy episodes that were all about the Klingon Empire were always so boring in my opinion.

My vote goes to Picard or Data.

The Klingons are sooooooooo tame by today's standards. If TNG was in production today, there'd be so much blood and death because of klingons. How are they in Discovery?

Picard by a country mile. He's the best thing in any Star Trek period.
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Q

The Admiral posted...

r4X0r posted...

It's always been Worf, and he eventually ended up taking command of the Defiant in DS9.

If you remember the Next Generation episode "Conundrum," everyone on the Enterprise D lost their memory. Everyone was trying to figure out who was who but Worf immediately stepped up and started giving orders, many times to Picard, that ended up saving the ship.

Like Miles, Worf is a better character on DS9. Early seasons TNG hes portrayed as a borderline animal at times, and even later hes frequently shown as incompetent or ineffective. On DS9, hes a badass.

Yeah, I guess I take all the series and movies together when considering a character. But his performance in "Conundrum" portrays him as absolutely capable of command.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5J50dzlcg
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jpenny2 posted...

Kind of surprised Riker is getting some votes.

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Data, but just barely over Picard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-iFOEOgIM

Man, I wish the original uploader still made these edits. They were the best.
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kuwab0 posted...

jpenny2 posted...

Kind of surprised Riker is getting some votes.

It's obviously the beard...
I still want to know who the hell voted for Wesley....
*flips table*
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