#captains — Public Fediverse posts
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#IPL2025 #captains
Only 1 foreign captain #PatCummins #SRH -
‘Who’s my captain?’
This is tough, mainly because most of the captains do evolve - if not across the shows, then in the movies or subsequent shows.
I’m going with Admiral Janeway - that is Janeway as she’s evolved to in Prodigy. She’s strong, charismatic, loyal, determined and tenacious, always trying to find the solution to Kobayashi Maru type scenarios that will not abandon those who follow her. She’s a captain you can trust to follow, and a captain that places confidence in her officers.
Picard would have been my answer for many years, and peak TNG Picard is still an aspirational leader model.
But Picard was evolving into someone I don’t respect as much - in the movies and especially through Picard the show. Just not a leader I could or would follow. His values are compromised in a way that TNG Picard would never allow, and his own journey to deal with his trauma has made him a much more flawed leader instead of completing him.
Pike remains in evolution - Pike in The Cage vs Discovery vs SNW - I’m not sure where he’ll end up so I’m not ready to say he’s my favourite or the one I would most follow, but I would follow him. Burnham is similar. I appreciate her journey but I didn’t feel that we were at the end of it with the Discovery finale - she evolved and changed so much throughout the show that I can’t be entirely sure where she will end up as a leader, although the epilogue was reassuring.
Sisko is the one I would assess as the most effective captain in consideration of the fraught circumstances of his leadership, but that’s a different question than ‘fave’ or the leader I would most want to follow. He was a captain that had to make morally grey decisions in complex circumstances. I would follow and respect but with a certain wariness and frustration that I would not have complete information.
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#Hospital #commanders are close to being gods in their domains: possibly no other #officers in the entire #military have more autonomy except #submarine #captains. It takes a lot to lead to this kind of shakeup. We’ll almost certainly never hear the details, but I admit to a great deal of morbid curiosity.
