The 25 Top Reasons Why Picard is Better than Kirk

25 When Picard marries a couple, he doesn't lose the groom in battle.


24 Picard can speak in more languages than Kirk has ever heard.


23 Kirk was the first captain to see a Romulan, but Picard went to Romulus & kicked their butts.


22 Kirk never met an alien (female) he didn't like. . .


21 Kirk bested an old, tired has-been called Apollo, while Picard has bested an omnipotent being several times.


20 Picard can be vulnerable with women.


19 Picard has better taste in recreation (who needs a local bar when you've got a holodeck).


18 Picard looks better as a detective than Kirk does as a gangster.


17 Picard got to crown the leader of the Klingon high council.


16 Picard saved the Federation from the space bugs.


15 Picard became a Borg.


14 Picard can quote Shakespeare & doesn't need spectacles to read it.


13 Picard can fence.


12 Picard makes a better Romulan than Kirk does.


11 Picard is a wine connaisseur.


10 Picard punches Ferengi as well as Kirk ever punched the wimpy Klingons of the first series.


9 Picard never let a bald midget in a dwarf ship with a scary dummy fake him out for an entire episode.


8 Picard didn't let some female with a loose screw take over his body & his ship while sticking him in her body.


7 Picard hasn't EVER had to spend an entire episode ridding his ship of furry hairballs which reproduce.


6 Picard doesn't lose as many red shirts.


5 Picard has killed Klingons in hand to hand combat on several different occasions.


4 Picard has broken the Prime Directive at least a dozen times.


3 Picard can swear in Klingon.


2 Kirk never climbed a turbo shaft with a foxy lady & got it on in the bowels of the ship.


1 Kirk never mind melded with a Vulcan to help the VULCAN with his self control.