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  • Janeway and Kirk are the 2 craziest and most courageous captains in the entire franchise.

  • Where the hell is Christopher Pike?

  • whats the song from the video?

  • How is Janeway not #1?

  • I dunno; Braxton was pretty psychotic. Ransom might be more immoral but I don't think Braxton deserves to be below Ransom. He wasn't crazy; he was just desperate. Braxton was legally insane and tried to kill everyone on a ship over five hundred years in the past. That's pretty psycho.

  • I had no problem with Jellico. He reminded me of my first CO when I was in the Navy. Very military minded and a micromanager but ultimately a very capable commanding officer.

  • I disagree with Number 2, If any other captain had gone through what Decker did Even Kirk they would have a good reason to act like decker did

  • @JonThomas92 Oh he might have had a reason, that makes sense, but he was batcrap crazee.

  • 0:41 A Ballchinian from MIB :-D

  • Useless (but hopefully somewhat interesting trivia). The role of Decker was originally to be played by Robert Ryan, who had a scheduling conflict or some such. From what I've read, he was going to play the character with much less sympathy and personal guilt/grief of the loss of his crew, and much more like a Jelico type, with the added bonus of an Ahab-type revenge complex.

  • Now I like to think, that the last thing going through Captain Maxwell's mind (other than that phaser set to kill), was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne got the best of him.

  • where's captain kirk in this list? u have 2 admit he was more or less crazy at one point. plz dont kill me saying it though coz i like crazy people

  • Rudolph Ransom was not "crazy", he was desperate to get out of the Delta Quadrant. Janeway, meanwhile, became bloodthirsty, blew the guy's ship up and killed their crew when they might've been able to beam an away team onto their ship. And besides: His ship didn't even have a holodeck, was infested with alien lifeforms that suck the life outa you (creepy... ._.) and was suffering far worse than Voyager!

  • @Tyco200 Normally I have extensively long comments.. Instead I'd just like to Ditto what Tyco said! I thought the same thing when i FIRST seen the Eps way back when :) I'd like to add that I Disapproved of said Cpt's end-game Choice but NOT his reasons... Were I in his situation... I might do the same. In either case, There WAS another solution to that Situation.. but leave it to Hollywood & BAD WRITING to kill a good episode... Much like that Eps Titled "one" gee that coulda been a GREAT!

  • From what I recall, Jellico wasn't crazy at all. I wouldn't even call him an ass. He was just a stricter, more formal commander than the Enterprise-D crew was accustomed to. The crew was behaving pretty unprofessionally that episode (especially Riker).

    And I'm not sure how Janeway fails to top the list.

  • @Quinstol What have you got against Janeway??!

  • @Direwolf0702

    Mostly the inconsistency of her morality and ethics. One episode she'll stand on some abstract principle at great expense to her ship and crew, but in another episode, she's a cold, ruthless pragmatist willing to make moral compromises for the sake of the mission/crew. Her decisions often go against what my strong moral intuition would be, but writing tends to gloss over a lot of the ambiguity and tends to frame things in a way that suggests Janeway is in the right.

  • @Quinstol perfectly put. I couldn't has said it better myself except to add that these problems all come from Bad Writing and Really stem from Rick Berman. I'm just a hardcore purist that blames Rick for the bad-changes after Mr Roddenberry died. Why? EXECUTIVE PRODUCER; THAT is why. Just look at the Transition of stuff in TNG from S4-S5... pretty Soapy even! Of course DS9 is a PRIME example of how to milk a Franchise while KILLING it. If only Quark & O'Brian wern't relegated to 2nd String.

  • @glytchd Thanks, Voyager certainly had issues with the writing. It could have been a brilliant show, but combine the overuse of the reset button (which obviated aspects of the show's premise that made it so promising) and a generally weak cast/weak writing ruined it. I'm not a Roddenberry purist though. DS9 is my favorite Trek by a good margin, and I enjoyed TNG's middle seasons as well (not a fan of the movies for the most part, though).

  • @Direwolf0702 yeah, that's pretty spot-on.

    On the one hand, she'll let an entire race be destroyed because it might possibly interfere with the prime directive, or something, but she'll ignore the prime directive in the very next episode.

    I wanted to like the Janeway character.

    Character inconsistency was probably the biggest flaw in that show.

  • @AnonymousElektron Hear-Hear and well said...  I'll reiterate: BAD WRITING/Directing.. All coming back to..What?? -BAD DIRECTING- Can anyone say RICK BERMAN?

  • @Direwolf0702 Well, Janeway's awesome, but comeon! Look at some of the stuff she did, allying with the borg to kill a species meant to save a race from being annihilated, and she wiped out the crew of the USS Equitor!

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  • thats so wierd i got the newest issue of star trek magazine last week there was a part called starfleet officers that are mad bad and dangerous to know and everyone in that video was on the list no more no less[benjamon sisko was on it aswell]

  • @trekthomasromanmyste i could see that, just think about it in starfleets eyes you have a caption of a space station calling himself a profit from the gods of a beaten down race... First they figured hes playing the part bullshitting to ahead their agenda then they realize he really thinks hes a profit O.o.....

  • You got number 1 wrong.."THATS LORD GARTH!!!!!!" LOL

  • btw matt decker was a commodore not a captain,

  • LORD Garth!

  • Matt Decker was a commodore, not a captain.

  • funky music

  • Well as long as you're saying 'crazy' I agree. Perhaps Janeway and Archer should be the too, though.

    Personally I hate Jellico unconditionally, but I suppose he was more of an asshole moron and not crazy.

  • @Orca8472 He was an asshole, but how was he a moron? He at least was less of a pussy than Picard. "We'll blow up these Cardassian ships and be back at Starbase in time for cornflakes!"

  • i miss janeway

  • @S1nwar Yes, her particualr style of acting is very hard to find outside of petrified forests and daytime soap operas.

  • Jellico wasn't crazy. He was just an asshole.

  • Yeah! Garth of Izar was a nutball!

  • please tell me what this song name is

  • @ibreakkidslegs

    The Star Trek theme

  • @BenjaminWirtz lol no shit sherlock... I meant this particular rendition of it

  • I want this audio file

  • Actually with the exceptions of Braxton, Tracey, and Garth, none of these people were insane. Maxwell was right about the Cardassians, Jellico was a skilled captain but simply wasn't likable, Keel rightly suspected there were changes in his crew and was killed for it, Ransom was trying to get his crew home under very dire circumstances, Jameson was trying to right an old wrong of his, etc.

  • Going off your rockers seems to be an occupational hazard with Star Fleet captains.

  • I liked Braxton. You never know when he'd be.

  • Captain Braxton looks a lot like Admiral Ross . . .

  • All these Captains look sane compared to Captain Janeway. 

  • WHERE ALL THE WOMEN AT?!?!

  • song plz

  • That was well done.

  • John Locke was a Starfleet captain?

  • my bid for craziest captain is the jerk who made Troi wear that damn uniform instead of letting her keep her top popping numbers!

  • Matt Decker (the great William Windom) wasn't crazy. He was a grief-strickened Captain bummed out about losing his crew to the Doomsday Machine!

  • @drogrish He also wasn't a captain. He was a commodore.

  • @DJEclipseNiagara A Commodore 64?

  • @DJEclipseNiagara Technically, he was a captain until he lost his ship. That is why he became a Commodore. I understand that a Commodore is the same rank as Captain only a Commodore has no ship to command.

    I could be wrong, though.

  • @232fkz Historically (for European Navies) Commodore is above Captain but below Admiral, usually in command of a small task force on assignments too small for a fleet but too big for a single ship. It was a fairly rare rank, mostly used for Captains long over-due for a promotion but lacking the "friends in high places" to make Admiral. Star Fleet stopped using the rank of Commodore sometime after the original series (probably because the US Navy doesn't use it)... blah blah blah...

  • @Vegabond13 the US Navy did use the rank of Commodore until the 1960s when it was changed to Rear Admiral Lower Half. the rank of Commodore was basically a one-star admiral.

  • @GriffithAMPS Actually the rank was reintroduced briefly in the early 1980's but was finally dropped in 1985 in favor of Rear Admiral (lower half)

  • @Vegabond13 Actually the U.S. Navy does use it. However, not as a rank, but a title. It is someone with the rank of Captain who commands a squadron of ships, subs, etc.. So in a way it is still used in its original form. Since Admirals are too high ranking to command a squadron, only the most senior Captains are assigned. In terms of rank, the U.S. Navy replaced Commodore (0-7) with rear admiral lower-half.

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  • two were admirals not captains.

  • @chandrandev9 And 1 was a Commador.

  • @chandrandev9 yeah he said was a captain before he became an admiral.

  • You've had about 3 Admirals in this clip and one from Babylon so fail.

  • Eric Pressman = John Locke (from Lost). XD

  • Imagine How Crazy or Off The Wall

    I Would Be As A Captain or Admiral.

    I Would Swing In Odd Directions.

    A Cross Between: Donald Varley and

    Edward Jellico.

  • Uh...I think that should be LORD Garth!

  • @JamesonBondy damn straight

  • number 1 Captain Kirk :D

  • @aliemre97 He wasn't crazy, he was just crap. Frankly I'm amazed the franchise ever took off with Kirk at the helm.

  • @aliemre97 Capt. Kirk. He'll blow up your battle cruiser, sleep with your woman, and at the end of the day YOU will want to shake HIS hand.

  • why are they all nuts, anyway? XD

  • nice work.

  • 0:41 Palpatine expanding Dark Side's franchise.

  • sorry i gotta put Riker on there . you give him temporary command of a ship for a TRAINING exercise and he almost gets the entire crew KILLED

  • Hey! I like most of those actors.... Don't hate them for bad guest spots. I think they're jealous of Captain Garrett and the craziest most loveable "shoot from the hip, we should hate her, but sh'e got that 'all American Girl Smile'"Janeway! As a few of you have mentioned, she should be number 1. Kiss Kate Mulgrew on the cheek some time, it makes a gay man get butterflies :-)

  • Edward Jellico was promoted to Head Of Starfleet . Star Trek Destiny : Lost Souls. Just like the real military !!! LOL

  • I disagree with the ranking. Braxton WAS crazy for real. He had temporal psychosis. So he should have been in the top ten. (Fuck you Janeway, you made one man crazy. Someone should have killed that bitch).

    Also I think Maxwell should not be included. He was right all along. Sure he had some issues like Posttraumatic stress disorder, or something, but he was not crazy.

  • In my Star Trek universe; The Borg, Q, Time Travel and the very irritating Mirror Universe does not exist! The story lines are pants and my imagination can only go so far when it hits the wall of stupidity thats when it ends! Think of this way with the new film when Spock goes through the black hole why doesn't he and Nero head for the star thats going Supernova in the past and use the red matter to stop it then??? Time travel is Impossible End Of!!!

  • No Sisko or Janeway? Sisko punched Q in the face and thought he was the Messiah (what wouldn't I have given for Dukat to deliver that famous Monty Python line) and Janeway was a bipolar, coffee addicted, incredibly butch yet not nailing Seven (come on, who wouldn't in her position?) and an all round maverick (and a Q called her a bitch in a very witty manner, that has to count for something).

  • THAT MUSIC IS TOO LOUD!! (CAN YOU HEAR ME?!)

    But at a normal volume makes me want to build myself a theremin.

  • make the music louder i can't hear anything

  • no john harriman the crazed fanboy?

  • THATS LOOOORD GARTH!!

  • Jellico was just a hard ass.

    Braxton wasn't insane. Well, when he first appeared.

    So those two shouldn't even be runners up.

    I agree that the rest had a screw loose. Except I think Jameson should be higher on the list than any of them. What he did was inexcusible.

  • @SilverMcdowell1992 Jameson wasn't crazy. He was criminal. At least he tried to atone for it.

  • @DocWolph Sorry for the late reply, but I had a chance to rewatch that episode and you're kinda right. He did try, but he might not have had to resort to those extremes if the aliens tried to be peaceful. At least he saved the lives of the hostages both times he was to that planet

  • Paper Tigers.

  • ha, I remember garth, he almost blew up a planet and almost scrambled some brains, but he was bird shit crazy and everyone knew it

  • The 26th century Federation is pretty screwed up from what we've seen (albeit little)...

  • Cool slideshow, bro

  • Man, Star fleet had some really F*k'd higher brass in Picard's day.

  • @CAinfowarrior Hahahahaha indeed

  • I vote for Tryla Scott :D

  • "Admr. Pressman wanted to level the playing field between the Romulans and the UFP! The ENDS would justify the MEANS with him!"

  • My favourite was Eric Pressman. He chose to violate the treaty of algeron by using a phased cloaking devise on a Starfleet ship (the Pegasus).

  • XD love the music! Its like "The next gen tonight show" theme song or something.

  • :47 It's Doctor Van Gelder!  No! Noooooooo!

  • Matt Decker? Decker may have been guilt ridden, but he did help destroy the Doomsday Machine. Ron Tracy should easily have been #2.

  • I haven't seen all of DS9 yet, and am half-way through TOS, but yeah, Janeway was crazy as hell, so was Archer, but maybe he was just plain dumb or something. I mean, the dog was probably smarter than him, and more competent in close combat.

  • You should have thrown Riker in there. The guy killed a version of himself for christsakes!

  • Decker was commodore not caption 

  • And Janeway isn't on this list why? o_O

  • Commodore Matt Decker was a good officer who's actions were the result of severe trauma. His subsequent heroic death demonstrated the way to defeat the Doomsday Machine. (oh shit. I sounded like a geek)

  • Why is Emperor Palpatine at number 4!?

  • Sweetness! The top 3 are all from TOS! My favorite! =D

  • #5 is Lock from Lost. Man, he be trippin' balls wondering where the hell the Island went.

  • That's *Lord* Garth, *formerly* of Izar. Get it right.

  • Half expected Kirk to be number one with Janeway as number two. The both of them had the biggest balls in Starfleet.

  • @bjeh001 have to agree both of them usually break the prime directive to survive

  • ROFL!

  • janeway was like jesus in bringing back the dead, cuz she had a crew of 150 beginning and 140 in the end even though 1 or 2 crewmen died every episode

  • what is this incredible music and where can i find it

  • @ststafford lol

  • lol garth of izar was awesome, he so totally deserved to be number one of the list XDXDXD

  • Braxton should be more than a runner up: he was actually crazy.

  • Wait, Tim Watters wasn't a captain!!!

  • Jameson was an admiral, along for the ride to mediate some phony hostage situation. But he was a nutter for sure. Taking that rejuvenation drug to the point of an "OD".

  • the captain of the u.s.s. reliant in star trek 2 went crazy, although he didn't start out that way.

  • Janeway ultimately ended the Borg. Watch Endgame. The end. And she really did get to boss Picard around in Nemesis. Greatest cameo ever. Well except for Nimoy in the reboot. HOLY SHIT! Its rebooted! All this is trivial!! (Janeway could kick new Kirk's ass.)

  • worst captain goes to star trek enterprise. The whole crew suck except for the vulcan girl.

  • Watters should not count.

  • @DoomBagel OH, yes he should!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 0:39 Palpatin?

  • Janeway should be in this video. She was the Gilligan of Starfleet. If her crew had mutinied and confined her to quarters, they would've been home within a month.

  • Decker was a Commodore

  • Why the FUCK did u include Keel, Scott and Rixx?????? Those 3 did something Great!! They gave Picard great intell that allowed Picard 2 save the fuckin UFP from those creatures! Don't include them with these other fools!!!!

  • @asuch874

    Agreed. Scott might count, but the other 2 were definitely not crazy. Otherwise, good selection!

  • @asuch874

    Agreed. Scott might count, but the other 2 were definitely not crazy. Also, Jellico, was never unstable, he simply had a different management style than Picard, which of course clashed with Riker. Otherwise, good selection!

  • Erik Pressman is John Locke.

  • 0:35 Don't tell him what he can't do.

  • Captain Garth definitely needs to make an appearance in at least one of the next 2 Trek films. Although I would prefer they actually explore the story in which he is tragically injured, I would even be happy with a pre-accident cameo.

  • kirk was a bigoted pervert, don't kid yourselves, he was and you know it! picard was a balding pussy who couldn't take 1 scrap with a single borg cube. sisko was an idiot with a messiah complex. janeway took on an entire unexpored quadrant of unpleasant aliens (including the borg) and dangerous anomalies, freed 7/9 from the borg and proceeded to flirt with her constantly and on a diet consisting entirely of coffee! she is the ultimate badass, like margret thatcher except she isn't evil

  • @randomface54 Hell Yes!!! :D

  • I dislike all peoplr named Decker :(

  • @PatrickStewartTNG Ya that army guy on A-team (tv show)

  • @asuch874 Also :)

  • why is darth sidious dressed up as a starfleet captain?

  • "Captain" Decker was actually a Commondor. Used as an unofficial designation for a captain in the Navy temporarily in command of a fleet division or squadron. Designation above a Captain below a Rear Admiral.

  • Great ! But the clip is missing one special "ingredient" to make it truly awesome: a SHORT ACCOUNT of the event that earned each Captain his/her place...

  • what funky remix is this? :D

  • 0:14 looks like a Nazi.

  • Seriously. If you take a random sampling of people that Starfleet has put in command of ships it seems like a fairly incompetent organization.

  • How can you put Walker Keel in this list. Your not crazy if your actually right about a conspiracy.

  • Jelico? Yes, he was a stiff micromanager but not crazy. Jelico was a sharp military strategist who also had a very rigid "by-the-book" type of demeanor. The scenario is so similar to the mix of military leaders today in the U.S military forces. Some leaders are strong yet flexible & compassionate delegators (like Picard and Riker) while others are also strong but as abrasive as crushed rocks (like Jelico).

  • clear bias towards the original series...some footage of WHY they are so krazy (with a K) would have been nice :p

  • how are janeway and archer not even mentioned?

  • Watch your back Picard....

  • Matt Decker wasn't completely crazy, he was the one who's sacrifice showed them how to defeat the doomsday machine.

    Self Sacrifice to save billions of lives and multiple star systems isn't crazy.

  • Wait, was that General Hague?! So that's where he went!

  • it wasn't exactly Decker's fault, although he was crazy

    best acting in a mental break down series EVER by him :D

  • i think Janeway deserves a mention, if not to win. she was a crazy sumbitch.

  • @LemonOdette Maybe in the top LOUSY captains.

  • @stafflvr Janeway was badass. she rivalled Kirk in her self-deitification. she believed she could do anything. she kicked Q's ass, 8472's ass, the borg's ass. she made Braxton crazy, she wiped her ass with the temporal prime directive, she hung out with Leonardo DaVinci, she went back in time to save her crew, she fucked up majorly but never faltered. this is the essence of a Starfleet Captain. this crazy drive. Picard seems like a wuss compared to her. i mean no blasphemy, but you gotta see it!

  • kirk did something janeway never did....being court martialed twice and get out of it in one piece. lol

  • @MrHoppers002 i'm sure going back in time to save your crew is a court martiable offense. :D Janeway dodged the whole bullet. plus she got away with more than that simply cuz she was in the Delta Quadrant, i'm sure she would have been court martialed lots of times.

  • I would've loved to see janeway thrown in the stockade. lol

  • @LemonOdette

    okay, you're right, janeway is badass.

    she's so badass she could get kirk two fuck her twice.

  • @LemonOdette I like Janeway, but, naw..Picard is the best. Janeway had the personality of cabbage.

  • @MrLlamajockey lol!!!

  • @LemonOdette ...All of your points are made off of a FAKE TV show...therefore this ridiculously long comment is completely worthless.

  • @LemonOdette

    Badass? More like bullshit. Initially the character of Captain Janeway was indeed quite promising, but eventually her mildly defiant streak exploded out to dominate every aspect of her existence. For every victory, there was crewmen dying pointlessly and her writing checks her butt couldn't cash that usually ended with cliche "Deus Ex Machina" plot devices bailing her out.

    Captain Janeway: the most shallow and ultimately pathethic "marqee" captain to wear the uniform.

  • @LemonOdette thats why she a admrial in nemisis and picards still a captain

  • @sword4005 Janeway should have been court marshaled honestly

  • @sword4005 Or because he doesn't want to leave his ship. Even Riker was offered his own crew several times and yet he stayed with the Enterprise for many years past his prime. Janeway was a great captain but wanted to move up in rank. Picard will always be the most respected Captain in the fleet.

  • @AFKslashSLITTING true then again after practicly crippling the borg and bring back maasive data and technolagy from the delta quadrent including the future tech from admrial janway im sure tehy gave her a bucket full of medals

  • @AFKslashSLITTING true then again after practicly crippling the borg and bring back masive data and technolagy from the delta quadrent including the future tech from admrial janway im sure they gave her a bucket full of medals

  • @sword4005 nerd