Star Trek's bad captains: Celebrating Starfleet's less-than-perfect commanding officers

Jan 31, 2020
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Picard's Liam Shaw is the latest in a long line of commanding officers who didn't receive the memo about being the best of the best.

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While on one level you have to feel for John Harriman – living up to fellow Enterprise captains Kirk, Picard, Archer and even the Enterprise-C’s Rachel Garrett, from classic "The Next Generation" episode "Yesterday’s Enterprise" was always going to be a tall order – he had the air of a man who'd been promoted way beyond his ability.

Could the article writer please explain how Captain Harriman is to be expected to live up to a captain (Rachel Garrett) who had probably not even been born yet and a ship that didn't exist(Enterprise C) when the Enterprise B was launched in the "Generations" movie?
 
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