Star Trek Day 2023: Our Top Five Captains

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Hello everyone! Happy Star Trek Day! We just hopped on the Mustache and the Beard’s website because for 4 years we have posted on Star Trek Day lots of cool and fun posts about one of our favorite and most transformative franchises. We will be inaugurating year five on October 1st, 2023 with a month-long horror-thon we like to call Geektoberfest. More about that later this month. Today, we both share our Top Five Captains and why we love these specific ones.

#5

“Captain Archer is easily the most versatile of them all; he makes you think he’s out of his depth and yet he manages to win every time.” — The Beard

“Captain Freeman is the captain of a not very important starship called the ‘Cerritos,’ but even though she’s a cartoon, and you may have never heard of her, she’s still better than Janeway and a heck of a lot funnier.” — The Mustache

#4

“Captain Sisko defines unpredictable and makes you feel like you have no idea what is going to happen next.” — The Beard

“Captain Archer has courage in a way that the other captain’s don’t have, because while others stare into the unknown with the Federation at their backs, Archer didn’t even know if the Federation could back him up.” — The Mustache

#3

“Captain Kirk set the bar for others to follow and makes you feel like he can’t lose.” — The Beard

“Captain Sisko embodies a quiet sense of dignity that is fluid and calm like a storm brewing or like a band tuning up to play a full night of smooth jazz.” — The Mustache

#2

“Captain Jean Luc Picard is the perfect blend of reason and compassion. He makes you feel like there’s nothing he can’t handle.” — The Beard

“Captain Kirk is a hardened, tough, space cowboy who loves to play fast and loose with rules, but he cares about his ship and crew; although sometimes I can’t see the compassionate part because like most parents it’s cloaked in do as I say, not as I do, and grudgingly, that’s why I trust him.” — The Mustache

#1

“Captain Pike instills loyalty like no other and makes you wish that you were part of his crew.” — The Beard

Captain Jean Luc Picard makes it seem almost blasphemous to not say his full name alongside his rank. His regal demeanor instills confidence in his crew to “Make it so.” — The Mustache

Again, Happy Star Trek Day!

So this is our top five list, quickly created to take advantage of one of those geek holidays we love. Of course, the Beard and I have argued back and forth over grocery shopping today as we prep for the possibility of a hurricane hitting Puerto Rico this weekend. Pray that it misses us and even if it does that we continue to have electricity.

Please don’t forget to hit that like button, and if you disagree with our lists just share yours and tell us where you think we might have gotten it wrong. Take care. Keep on shining. Be good to one another, and over everything else maintain Peace.

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My name is Louie Matos and I’m a geek. I’m such a geek that the week my best friend moved to Puerto Rico, I asked him to co-write a blog. Of course he said, “Yes!” because I’m SOOO flipping interesting, and because since we’ve known each other, we collaborate even when we don’t know we’re doing it. For the purposes of this blog, I’m the mustache. I’ve had a mustache since I was 12 years old, and I’ve never shaved it off. (We Puerto Ricans love our facial hair.) I was born into my geekdom. My Mom was a collector, and my Dad was a huge reader. So early on Dad would read to me and when he was done with the book, I would keep it until I learned to read for myself. And then I read everything, inhaling books from our school library 5 or 6 per week. When we moved to a new, safe neighborhood, I began to walk to the library, weekly. That’s when I became obsessed with books in general, and horror in particular. In Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, my brother, Marc, and I moved into the basement together. We had our own TV and because we were in the basement, Mom and Dad pretty much left us to our own devices if we let our little sister, Dee, tagalong. There in that basement we would watch creature features, chiller theatre, and horror marathons. We collected comic books, toys, and books. When we could afford our own VCR, we collected movies. So if I were to communicate my geekdom, I would say I’m a horror guy, former collector of Fangoria magazine. I still read 3 or 4 books per week (mostly horror and sci fi but practically anything.) I still read comics when I can get my hands on them (no small feat here in Puerto Rico). Dungeons and Dragons is still a must at family gatherings and we never fight about which is better (Star Wars or Star Trek). We can enjoy both. This blog will have all of that and a whole lot more. Stay tuned.