Star Trek Crews Ranked from Worst to the Real Number Ones

The last border is the focus of Star Trek. But its also about how you didn’t investigate it alone. Star Trek offers a fundamentally collective vision, a description of the future in which society has overcome its minor differences, from the marine trappings that tell its spaceship setting to the futuristic United Federation of Planets.

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Star Trek is all about exploring the last border. But its also about how you can&#8217, t examine it only. Star Trek offers a fundamentally collective vision, a description of the future in which society has overcome its trivial differences and worked together, from the marine trappings that tell its spaceship setting to the futuristic United Federation of Planets.

That vision begins on the gate of each ship in the particular Star Trek series. However, not all crew are created equal, as anyone who has ever visited a Trek-centric webpage is aware of. But these &#8217, s our try to position the ten key personnel across the Star Trek franchise.

10. Sirena ( Picard )

The staff of the Sirena would be in last place even if Star Trek: Picard‘s third and final season failed to bring the TNG crew back together on a reconstructed Enterprise-D. How could they not be? The first two months of Picard didn’t have a suitable crew due to Patrick Stewart‘s reticence to repeat too much of what he did before as Jean-Luc Picard. Otherwise, he gathered a rag-tag party to go on an illicit vision.

Some of those people did have interesting figures. Jeri Ryan has made Seven of Nine just more nuanced over the years, Santiago Cabrera is continuously entertaining as Chris Rios, and Alison Pill manages to find someone powerful in the disastrously-written Agnes Jurati. However, Picard shows that rag-tag team don&#8217, t labor when people don&#8217, and t enjoy watching the outcasts interact with duds like Raffi and Elnor on board. If only the current Trek producers learned that lesson before making Section 31&#8230,

9. NX-01 ( Enterprise )

Some will undoubtedly argue that other, more recent shows deserve to be inferior to the team on the NX-01, because Enterprise gave each member of its bridge crew at least one character trait. However, this writer contends that it would be better to know nothing about a character than to know that they &#8217, re insufferable jerks, which is too often the case aboard the NX-01.

This is not to say that Enterprise was completely devoid of interesting characters. Trip Tucker managed to embody the fighter-pilot mentality that the series wanted to harness, T&#8217, Pol&#8217, s arc showed just how hard it was to build the alliance between Earth and Vulcan, and Phlox is the best doctor on the show. However, Mayweather becomes one of the best characters on the show because we can’t hate someone we know nothing about because of Archer&#8217, s confused belligerence and Reed &#8217, s constant whining or creepiness.

8. Discovery ( Discovery )

Discovery belongs toward the bottom because it eschews the ensemble approach that became the franchise&#8217, s trademark. Michael Burnham is a stand-in for Star Trek since TOS ( even though Shatner had his way when he was able to get his way ). One episode reveals that that Owosekun comes from a planet of space Luddites, another shows that Detmer is mad a Michael for a while about the hunk of mettle in her face, and one of the other guys says he likes to surf&#8230, I don&#8217, t remember which.

Despite this, Discovery‘s crew has some gems, even in its unusual structure. Sonequa Martin-Green&#8217, s considerable charisma is n&#8217, t quite enough to make Michael someone worth so much attention, but Mary Wiseman&#8217, s earnest and annoying Tilly helped bring out the best in the eventual captain. The voice acting in his remarkable-as-usual physical acting is incredible, thanks to Doug Jones ‘ incredible performance as Saru. Stamets and Culber sometimes suffered from uneven writing, but they managed to show how a marriage could work on a starship. Tig Notaro is great, and she killed every line, even though she may have only been playing herself in space.

7. Voyager ( Voyager )

Voyager very much wanted to return to Next Generation-style storytelling after the more experimental Deep Space Nine. That initially included a return to episodic storytelling as well as a focus on the ensemble crew. Even better, the series &#8217, premise gave Voyager a great storytelling engine with which to work, as getting stranded in the Delta Quadrant required members of the Maquis, ex-Starfleet officers who rebelled against the organization, to fall in under Janeway &#8217, s command.

The producers of Voyager made the decision to ignore the potential stories in such a conflict in an incredibly frustrating move. Outside of a handful of episodes here and there, the former Maquis and the Starfleet officers had no issues. Sadly, missed opportunities became the hallmark of the show’s approach to the ensemble, especially once Seven of Nine. From that point on, Harry Kim, B&#8217, Elanna Torres, and Tuvok took a back seat to Janeway, Seven, and the Doctor. That trio had a lot of excellent episodes, and it was always nice when some of the other crew members were the focus. But it &#8217, s hard to give Voyager special condemnation for its ensemble work.

6. Protostar ( Prodigy )

All of the Star Trek shows do a good job with their ensembles from this point on, and all of the crews are good. The only thing that remains to be desired is how good they are. And, for certain, the group of alien children who escape the confines of an alien overlord from the Delta Quadrant and become Starfleet cadets are very good. <a href=””>Prodigy manages to be a kid’s show, a Star Trek sequel, and a great Star Trek show all at once.

That said, the narrative of Prodigy demands that they aren&#8217, t quite on the level of the other more professional and seasoned crews on this list. Dal has everything you need to be a great captain, Gwyndala will be a great linguist, Jankom Pog will be a great engineer, and so on. But they aren&#8217, t there quite yet, because they &#8217, re still kids learning about how Starfleet works. That makes for fantastic viewing, and we need to watch Prodigy at least one more season to see how they develop. But it also puts the crew at the bottom of the good groups on this list.

5. Cerritos ( Lower Decks )

At first, it seemed like Lower Decks would be a two-hander with a couple supporting characters, surrounded by thinly-sketched others. Everyone else was just for jokes, including Ensigns Rutherford and Tendi, Mariner and Boimler, and their friends. But as Lower Decks developed, it became about more than just laughing about horga&#8217, hns and Spock Helmets. It evolved into a true Star Trek episode about discovery and exploration.

As it did so, the characters developed and the crew became more distinct. Similar to Rutherford and Tendi’s development into good Starfleet officers, Mariner and Boimler also became more than just players in the leads &#8217, adventures. Even better were the rest of the Cerritos&#8216, s crew, especially Mariner&#8217, s mother Carol Freeman. Captain Freeman is only trying to do her job, and she succeeds, not a once-in-a-generation adventurer like Kirk or a flawless diplomat like Picard. It&#8217, s Freeman&#8217, s no-nonsense watch over the Cerritos that allows her crew of goofballs to shine.

4. Enterprise ( Strange New Worlds )

It’s entertaining to watch the Strange New Worlds crew on the pre-Kirk Enterprise. Beginning with Anson Mount&#8217, s take on Captain Pike as a cool, supportive older brother, Strange New Worlds feels less like the return to exploration suggested by its title and more of a romp across space starring familiar characters. No one can help but smile as the cast interacts, even though the individual episodes may not be to everyone’s tastes, such as the notorious musical episode or the self-parodying proto-holodeck episode.

Some of that fun comes from the compelling new characters added to the series, the security officer La&#8217, an or the cooky engineer Pelia. Additionally, the prequel to the show does remarkably well acting, giving us adorably younger versions of Uhura, Scotty, and Spock. But the real pleasure of Strange New Worlds has been the way it develops characters we knew only by name. Number One, M&#8217, Benga, and Chapel have all since been fully developed characters that merit mention alongside their more well-known counterparts.

3. Enterprise ( The Original Series )

I am aware of this. The Original Series set the stage! Without Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov, Star Trek wouldn’t be Star Trek. While this is true, it &#8217, s also true that everyone who was n&#8217, t in the central trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy never got much character development, even in films that purported to give them more to do. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Leonard Nimoy made a point of getting the attention of his co-stars, but the result was a bunch of single bits: Scotty talking to a mouse, Chekov looking for nuclear &#8216, Wessels, &#8217, and Sulu checking out a chopper.

However, the fact that the crew is so beloved despite their relatively small amount of screentime makes them all the more impressive. Although none of the supporting characters replace the main three, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and George Takei make the most of the attention, giving them a much more in-depth understanding than they actually are. Thanks to the supporting cast &#8217, s work, TOS set the stage for the crews to come.

2. Deep Space Nine ( Deep Space Nine )

Deep Space Nine has a slight unfair advantage because its main cast isn’t the crew of a starship; instead, they are the staff on a space station. That difference allows us to include barkeep Quark and constable Odo, characters that otherwise might not fit on the main crew. However, Benjamin Sisko, the real key to DS9&#8216’s success, is ultimately due to its commander-turned-captain. From the very beginning, Sisko was a different type of character than the other leads, a single father who was skeptical of Starfleet and thrust into the position of religious figure.

Due to this distinction, Sisko was able to interact with people differently depending on how they felt, creating unique interactions with the crew. He saw Dax as both a subordinate and a mentor, thanks to the symbiote she carried. He and O&#8217, Brien became friends while acknowledging Garak as a necessary evil. From the top down, DS9 offered new team dynamics, all part of its groundbreaking approach to the franchise.

1. Enterprise ( The Next Generation )

The Original Series cast appeared to be a group of compelling characters who coexisted and worked together. The Next Generation crew was a a group of compelling characters who worked and lived together. Well, they eventually turned into that. Part of the problem in the famously uneven first two seasons of TNG is that it tries to replicate the focus on three characters—originally, Picard, Data, and Geordi. However, as the series progressed and Stewart started to play along with his co-stars, the Enterprise-D came to be a true ensemble.

Several episodes demonstrate these dynamics, from the delightful holodeck romps to the gripping two-parters. The series finale, &#8220, All Good Things &#8230, and &#8221, Watching Picard check in with the crew all over time before finally joining them in a card game at the end, puts the perfect capper on the show. These are explorers and scientists and military personnel, yes. These are friends, after all, though.

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