fracas

Jayleen and I are back to our old ways… arguing over Kirk and Picard. This is an old thing, going back to the fall of 2002. It’s five years later, and she just still doesn’t understand.

You could pop over there if you like, and leave your two bits worth on this very important and pressing issue if you like. I warn you though… if you’re a Kirk camper, you’re going to have to come up with some really good reason to explain why you’d want to share your beauty products with your mate (except the hair gel… he might be able to handle that one on his own), or why you’d want to have to spend the rest of your life on prescription drugs.

• A Toon Zone Forum Poll shows Picard outpacing Kirk as favorite.
• Forty reasons Picard is better than Kirk.
• 101 Reasons Why Picard is Better Than Kirk (Hey.. it also has a bonus 101 reasons. Thats 202.)

From Urban Dictinary, here are the #1 responses as of posting time, to both. Note the percentage of thumbs up to down for both.

Captain Kirk:

136 votes thumbs up, 86 votes thumbs down. 
William Shatners role on the legendary original series Star Trek. The Captain never failed at anything, always got the girl (even when she had blue skin) and was the only starfleet cadet to ever beat the Kibiyoshi Maru (by cheating), a simulation designed to test how a cadet responds to failure. He’s famous for dramatic pauses, which Shatner is also famous for. Was promoted to Admiral in the course of the Star Trek movies, but then demoted back to captain in a later Star Trek movie.

Captain Picard:

104 votes thumbs up, 15 votes thumbs down.
Out of the whole Star Trek series; He is the most wise, intellegent, and fair of all the Captains. He always listens to his senior officers’ oppinions, and considers their information in his decisions. He is my ideal of an accomplished, and respectable man. His character is one of my role-models I live by.

Fracas notes that Kirk was demoted. Picard though, Picard was offered the job of Admiral, and declined… citing his dislike of politics as the reason.

Oh.. and did I mention that Picard is bald?

Bald certainly beats that greasy look-ma-I-can-go-for-days-without-washing-it-and-you-can’t-tell look. Or maybe it’s that he uses the same “gel” we learned about in that movie, There’s Something About Mary. Either way, it’s just icky.

All in all Jayleen… it’s Picard.

And indeed. Fracas is like the Borg. You will all be assimilated. Don’t worry too much about all that metal in your faces and heads. I hear it’s the rage these days anyway.