There was a whole episode about the fact that while Pike is a fantastic captain, he's not the sort of rough-and-tumble captain that's needed at certain moments in history. I think this is one of those situations -- he's just the wrong pick. Picard even moreso: he's a golden age captain, he lives a life of luxury and diplomacy. He can be firm and decisive when he has to, but I don't think he'd thrive in that frontier environment. (It would be pretty interesting to see him deal with the homeland of the Borg though.) Sisko is great on the frontier. But given episodes like "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight", I wonder if he'd end up like Captain Ransom of the USS Equinox -- going too far and destroying himself. I'm gunna give it to Kirk. Exploring an unknown quadrant with noone to fall back to is his JAM.
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It’s impossible to stand Sisko in the Delta Quadrant because he doesn’t use a star chart. He just decides where he is and the universe rearranges itself accordingly.
5 days ago | 13
Sisko got stranded in the gamma quadrant and made it home in the same episode.
6 days ago | 34
Kirk: After a couple brief distractions he would, through some lateral thinking, and the help of Spock get back in almost no time at all. Pike: Would plod his way back struggling with one moral dilemma after another until making a sacrifice play for his crew while almost at the Federation's doorstep. Picard: Would never be heard from again, but would ultimately save the Delta, Alpha, and Beta quadrants from some yet unknown threat in the making. Sisko: Would come back at the head of a massive fleet riding a space chariot made of Borg bodies.
6 days ago | 10
I’m gonna say Kirk. He dealt with far more with far less tech on his five year mission, was further from home longer and had fewer reinforcements and resupply opportunities. He also dealt with more god-like entities and outsmarted a few of them. Qualities like that would come in handy when dealing with the unknowns of being stranded on the other side of the galaxy.
6 days ago | 24
What?! Picard WAS stranded in the Delta Quadrant! And he was BEGGING Q to send him home! Even Kathy didn't beg! Sisko is my pick!
3 days ago | 1
Picard; however, combined with his crew, they would have solved the problem in one episode. Data and Geordi would have solved it alone, and Riker would have convinced Picard to go along with whatever plan they had. Worf would get beaten up in a fist fight with a random Kazon. Lastly, Riker would have stolen Kes from Neelix and married her. It would only be a 9 year commitment.
6 days ago | 6
Sisko: hey wormhole aliens....can you make another wormhole please?
6 days ago | 18
Picard is diplomatic enough and has a far better understanding of the Borg than the rest. Sisko is strong enough to command a crew and intimidate his enemies. So is Kirk though, and Kirk was an explorer. I'm giving it to Kirk but I think Sisko is a close second.
5 days ago | 2
Kirk would be the best. Picard would preach until their ears bled Sisko to just use terrorists attacks on everyone and everyone who didn't agree with with him. Civilians are far game when he uses a biological weapon on a human planet with innocents so him doing so again and again isn't too far fetched. Pike, I think would brake.
6 days ago | 3
The captains aren't just individual choices, they're a package deal. They come with their crew, so you're voting for more than just the captain. Thus, if it's the captain alone, I'd go Kirk, but if also factori g in the crew, then it's Picard: his team are all time-served, fully qualified, proven and capable. No one is learning on the job. They also come with certain built-in advantages like an infallible humanoid lie detector, the best engineer since Scotty and Data (whose advantages are obvious). They'd probably be home in few days, using the caretaker array after solving the whole Occampa Kazon problem.
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Never seen New Pike. Give the pre-TOS tech he had in the pilot, I'm not sure they'd gave made it home. If Sisko had the defiant, I'm not sure he'd gave made it home without reducing the net Borg to zero or going full Ransom. Picard is a diplomat flying a glass cannon. Not sure he'd have survived but Riker'd get the D home... even if he had to bother Q into doing it. Kirk, though... he's an inveterate explorer. I am utterly convinced he'd do everything, and get home.
5 days ago | 1
If this poll said "choose a captain that isn't Kirk" I'd still choose Kirk.
6 days ago | 6
Kirk, 100% Janeway made an absolutely baffling decision She could have had the caretaker send Voyager back AND have left the caretaker with some carefully placed torpedoes, rigged with a timer to detonate. Yeah, you lost some crew members but you would have brought everyone straight home AND freed the Ocampa of the caretaker.
5 days ago (edited) | 2
Kirk and Sisko wouldn't have simped for the Ocampa in the first place. Picard probably would have found a middle solution that still gets them back via the Caretaker. Janeway was a S31 agent sent to collect Intel and exploit vulnerabilities on the Borg. She fulfilled her mission.
6 days ago (edited) | 18
Well, if Kirk and his crew had been in that situation, they wouldn't have ended up trapped at all. They would have activated the array to get home after Spock set it to explode. Pike, on the other hand, would still be on the Ocampa, busy cooking for them. As for Picard, he would be in a worse predicament than Janeway—still attempting to negotiate with someone while "Q" delivered an embarrassing wedgie. If Sisko found himself in that scenario, he would have made a beeline for the Gamma Quadrant and the wormhole. The Dominion was still unknown at that time, so that wouldn't have crossed his mind. And if he had the Defiant and encountered the Omega particles, Dax would have stabilized them, while Chief O'Brien would have integrated them into the power core, and they would be at full warp speed heading home in no time.
5 days ago | 1
Not Picard, he would be last pick. In the episode "Prime Factors" Kirk & Sisko and even Archer wouldn't hesitate to make the deal and obtain the technology to get home. Not being rushed, Scotty, Chief O'Brien and Trip would have made it work. Picard on the other hand has shown he would easily let the Federation be destroyed if he felt he was morally right, so choosing to be strand his crew in the Delta quadrant means nothing to him, so he would make the same decision as Janeway and turn down the offer, and unlike with Janeway, the Enterprise crew wouldn't have tried to go behind his back.
5 days ago (edited) | 1
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My vote is for Sisko, predominantly because he would be intimately familiar with the exact of location and the inhabitants of the Bajoran Wormhole (The Celestial Temple) in the nearby Gamma Quadrant.
4 hours ago (edited) | 0
Rikerish
Star Trek Polls: Which Captain would best handle being stranded in the DELTA QUADRANT?
Shoutout to @chihauhaun for the idea!
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