Reasons Picard is Better than Kirk

  • When Picard marries a couple, he doesn't lose the groom in battle.
  • Picard can speak in more languages than Kirk has ever heard.
  • Kirk was the first captain to see a Romulan, but Picard went to Romulus and kicked their butts.
  • Picard has better taste in recreation (who needs a local bar when you've got a holodeck).
  • Picard looks better as a detective than Kirk does as a gangster.
  • Picard got to crown the leader of the Klingon high council.
  • Picard saved the Federation from the space bugs.
  • Picard became a Borg.
  • Picard can quote Shakespeare & doesn't need spectacles to read it.
  • Picard can fence.
  • Picard makes a better Romulan than Kirk does.
  • Picard is a wine connaisseur.
  • Picard punches Ferengi as well as Kirk ever punched the wimpy Klingons of the first series.
  • Picard never let a bald midget in a dwarf ship with a scary dummy fake him out for an entire episode.
  • Picard didn't let some female with a loose screw take over his body & his ship while sticking him in her body.
  • Picard hasn't EVER had to spend an entire episode ridding his ship of furry hairballs which reproduce.
  • Picard doesn't lose as many red shirts.
  • Picard has killed Klingons in hand to hand combat on several different occasions.
  • Picard can swear in Klingon.
  • Kirk never mind melded with a Vulcan to help the VULCAN with his self control.