The Great Captain Debate

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#21

[quote=“theamazingcatherine”]Yeah but, the Ships’ Doctors

Dr Leonard McCoy - snarls, patches, mends, falls in love, delivers babies to women who could break his neck and, when Khan Noonien Singh held a scalpel to his throat, calmly faced the maniac down while suggesting better cutting technique to get the carotid artery. Because McCoy is bad ass.

The EMH - Um, fussy? Great drive to become human?

Dr Simon Tam - very, very pretty. Also, good to his sister, and learning how to tote a gun.

Dr Steven Maturin - short, scrawny, deft hand with a foil and a pistol, once performed life-saving surgery on himself, demonstrably able to keep a beautiful woman happy in bed, passionate naturalist, and once removed all doubt that he might be a Secret Agent Guy by the sheer ineptness of his (sincerely given) speech to the French naturalist society. Also bad ass.[/quote]

Am totally with you on Maturin!!!

#22

Best Doctor is Dr Helena Russell.

10 points to anyone old enough to remember the show without having to resort to Google :-0)[/quote]

moonbase alpha space 1999.

#23

Best Doctor is Dr Helena Russell.

10 points to anyone old enough to remember the show without having to resort to Google :-0)[/quote]

moonbase alpha space 1999.[/quote]

10 Points :-0)

#24

:slight_smile: thanks Mandos, i’ll try not to spend them in the same shop

#25

My favourite is Tama Te Kapua, legendary captain of the Te Arawa fleet. He was clever, and persuaded the local Saruman-equivalent to accompany the fleet on the journey to Aotearoa (to wit, the tohunga Ngātoro-i-rangi, who was instrumental in the success of the fleet’s safety).

But I would say that, I am of Te Arawa descent.

Still, the next time you visit Mairangi Bay, you may wish to reflect on the fact that it was named after an even earlier ancestor of mine: Ohomairangi.

#26

:stuck_out_tongue: Always be proud of where you came from.

Is Ohomairangi linked at all to the naming of Te Ahumairangi in Wellington? I live on that hill.

#27

Yup.

#28

Does it have to be Captains specifically? Only Shepherd is a Commander…

#29

There’s always Captain Anderson, who’s almost as awesome as Shepherd.

#30

I’m sure he was a captain at some point, that has to qualify him.

#31

I’m sure he was a captain at some point, that has to qualify him.[/quote]

I play Shepherd as a woman - it’s so weird hearing her referred to as ‘he’ :smiley:

Ok, what about Captain Jack Harkness? I mean, he’s got an awesome coat and he’s immortal!

#32

Captain Haddock