Also – I need to see Bullit again. It’s been too long.

In Se7en Brad Pitt falls a few feet and breaks his arm. In Dark Knight Batman drops Julia Roberts less famous brother a few stories and he breaks his legs. In Lost, John Locke gets thrown out of a window and becomes paralysed. Richard Pryor? He has the biggest fall and he’s all right. No. Just, no.

Though of all the moments that turnig back time one drove me nuts. Even as a kid. Time travel struggles to make sense at the best of times. But put Michael J Fox in a Deloeran, have Spock slingshot around the run, throw in a temporal anomaly or even give Bill & Ted an early TARDIS model… it’s fine. Flying around the Earth to make it spin backwards? Just no.

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Picard… I can see his inclusion, but the DS9 fan in me still leans towards Sisko. Far more proactive than Picard (maybe too much, who was in charge when he took his staff out on the Defiant?) and despite the show taking a couple of years to warm up (but TNG was the same, so meh) he seemed more commanding, more powerful and more able to fight his cause. He even seemed to take control over the Admirals involved in the war and was more complex a charachter, especially when losing his cool.

Though I still see DS9 as Ron Moore’s prelude to what became the new Battlestar – and I’m tempted to say William Adama, but his actions don’t match up with others on this list. But he was cool despite being old, commanding and not afraid to be a prick, emotional yet would hide that from is crew (when he was sober) and loyal. Not to mention… Edward James Olmos is a fantastic actor who really owned the role.

Pine’s still quite young, but I think that added to his performance. He’s the early days of Kirk, he wasn’t always the awesome – he had to get the shit kicked out him and learn. The same goes for Spock, really – but that’s just a far more logical step to show that he’s had to tame his human side. Even though this is a Kirk born of different circumstance. But in the scenes where he channels Shatner (particularly the last scene on the bridge) it was wonderful as Shatner and Kirk will forever be tied together as one.

Althought I know it’s not your cup or raktajino, Jack O’Neill from Stargate pops in my head. Richard Dean Anderson gave us the anti-McGyver in the performance of a simple soldier who was good at his job, not so good at the science. But he saved the world on more than one occasion, usually against all odds, and still managed to get his groove on until he bowed out in the later years.

For Terminator… I’m not sure on the big man. He’s a machine programmed to be the hero, where as Sara Conner in T-2 was a human fighting against everything and everyone to make sure the future would go forward with fates chosen hero. Arnie was writen as the hero, but I always wonder if Conner – as a flawed human with a lot to deal with – was one of the unsung heroes of the saga. Especially considering the life she was pushing her son towards.

I’m also tempted to say Taggart from Galaxy Quest. He never gave up, never surrendered…