10 Star Trek Captains Who Broke The Rules 

Honorable mention for Archer, who was so cavalier that the rules were based on him 😅

A list of Starfleet captains who did not break the rules would be a much shorter video!

Love Sulu. … “Fly her apart then!!!” 😂

Basically everyone except Captain Jellico

The fact that the burn was caused by one crying kelpian and not omega, was a huge missed opportunity.

Did we all forget that Captain Picard disobeyed orders in Star Trek: First Contact? The Enterprise was ordered to patrol the neutral zone for Romulan activity. Instead, Picard violated thier orders and set course for Earth to participate in the battle of sector 001.

It's criminal that Harry didn't get a promotion at some point in Voyager. I mean, come on, they lost several crewmembers over the course of their journey, Janeway could have at least promoted him to lieutenant at some point.

I always loved that scene with Admiral Janeway and Captain Kim, right in the feels.

Johnathon Archer should be on the list. He stole technology and stranded alien crew members in the expanse. They also never showed what happened to those aliens.

Top 10 most badass one liners. Fly her apart then! All hands, brace for impact! Etc.

Eddington: "Ha-HAAAAA! I've been secretly helping the Maquis, and now I'm openly joining them!" Sisko: "...and I took that personally..."

Captain Kim captaining the new Voyager beside Seven of Nine on the Enterprise... That's my dream

Janeway could have a list of how many times she broke the rules. I'm sure admiral Paris had a stroke reading her report after she got back to earth.

To be fair to Janeway when the Omega situation, the regulations did also state that the Omega directive itself overrode all other Starfleet regulations, including the Prime Directive. Given she had already been given that much leeway, and the complexity of the situation, the only way she had to carry out her orders without thing going massively wrong was to inform her crew.

Admiral Janeway: You're forgetting the Temporal Prime Directive, Captain. Captain Janeway: The hell with it.

I was just so happy to see Harry got a promotion 😂

Captain Harry Kim in first place!! Take an up ⬆️ good sir 🖖✌️

And for part 2? There must be another 10!

You need to break the rules to become the captain of the enterprise 🦆 (Ente is the German word for duck…😂)

All captains broke the rules let's be honest with ourselves

Whoa, I never realized John Locke from Lost played a Badmiral before Lost

well, she got them home . . except Tuvix

The hardest part about being the captain is desideing if and when brakeing the rules the right thing to do. Depending on the situation then trying to live with outcome. I am suprised that Archer is not on the list.

Rudy Ransom and The Equinox was such a tragic story. Janeway is my favorite captain, but Voyager writers ‘drop the ball’ on storylines. I don’t remember a another peep about the Equinox crew that stayed on board

"Risk is our business" 😉

Spock's violation of the rules in VI were consistent with his actions re: Pike and Menagerie. Hard not respect loyalty on that level (and why Kirk breaks the rules to save Spock in III and suffer demotion).

There were three captains of the Enterprise that didn’t get mentioned…I guess they were by the book. Hehehe. Let’s talk captains of Enterprise B and C, as well as Jellico on Enterprise D. I wonder if we could find some dirt on them?😝 It was mentioned from the original series about a galaxy/universe mostly uncharted, or explored, but I always found it strange that there were space stations out there in places where there shouldn’t be, and planets where the Federation had already been, and the Enterprise went back to those planets. I would have loved to have seen more aliens that were a first contact situation, to see how Kirk and crew would have dealt with them. Just thinking out loud. 😄

Excellent analysis!

Great topic, Sean!

Fantastic video, as usual ❤

Wait... when was Harry Mudd ever a captain? Oh, Harry Kim ....

Here's to the Love! You are awesome too. Thanks for the positive vibes!

Picard, every episode 😂

Why wouldn't Harry Kim, after an additional 20+ years, get promoted to Captain, and get command of the Rhode Island? There's no reason to think he'd still be an ensign (save for the running joke, about him being stuck as an ensign for so long).

Actually, the list should be - Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk, Kirk and Kirk

I'm sorry, I got 1:16 into the video and I have to stop and watch TNG - The Pegasus again. I'll be back

I'm pretty sure Maxwell's image would be just fine in-universe. Imagine if a rogue British captain went on a one-man offensive against Germany in 1935. By 1940, he'd be remembered a hero.

This is just a list of show leads... ;)

Capt Tracy’s given name was Ronald, not Donald.

Terry Quinn he's a brilliant actor he played the KAG in judge advigate general

Using the Omega Directive to put Janeway on the list is a little pointless. By invoking the Omega Directive, the Prime Directive is rescinded for the duration.

Not a bad list.

All of them!

I think for Janeway, a lot of her rulebreaking was justified, she along with the crew were put into an exceptional situation of survival while trying to maintain their standards, so some rules that would have seen her stripped of command back home she had to break to save ship and crew; Sisko on the other hand, yeah, poisoning a planet as well as faking that meeting to draw the Romulans into the war, that should have landed him with major demotions, if not outright prison time, specifically for the planet, Kirk on the other hand, well, he was doing the right thing, not always the right way, but he had morals regardless...

Here's a hint, all of them. Some more than others.

To be fair Cisco did find a general order that actually gave him permission to chemically bombarded planet

1:54 Kardashian territory! (Ty Auto captions)

Janeway likely holds the record for most murders committed by a captain

Eric Pressman? That's John Locke!!

Ronald Tracey, not Donald

Number 10 Pressman doesn't really count as it wouldn't have been Pressman breaking the rules. He would have been acting under starfleet orders in relationship to the phased cloacking device aboard the Pegasus. Not even starfleet captains can just turn their ships into testbed vessels without approval from on high. Therefore Pressman, like Riker, was acting under starfleet orders. Number 2 Jayneway also doesn't really count. The omega directive literally allows starfleet captains to break the rules. Even the prime directive, starfleet's general order 1, is voided during a situation with omega. Omega is seen as so bad that a captain can bend or break any rule out there and not be held accountable.

Captain Gabriel Lorca said it best: "Rules and Regulations are for peasants. Context is for Kings." Captain Kirk's violation of the Prime Directive in A Taste of Armageddon can be laid at Robert Fox's feet- the proto Picard naively thought that 'diplomacy solved anything and everything (as the UK'S PM Chamberlain wrongly thought, jabbering of 'peace in our time' prior to World War II. Janeway's Deliberate violation of the Temporal Prime Directive for purely personal reasons in Endgame should've been cited; at least she was covered by the Omega Directive in the titular episode. Jean-Luc Picard is excepted? What of the actions seen in Pen Pals, or the film Insurrection?

I still think Janeway should be #1. When an entire organization of time travel police know your name by heart because of your actions, you have broken too many rules.

What about Pcard when he was part of the borg?

Harry never gets promoted because the universe knows what Captain Kim can do. The Galaxy must be protected

Guys I love your videos Been a Sub for years But 2nd request Background Music 🎶 is too bloody loud

i'd be more impressed if you did a list of one star trek captain who didn't.

Janeway.... not followed by the murder of tuvix that was a plot twist 😂

Why isn't Archer, who stranded another ship in the Expanse because he stole their technology, not on this list? Or how about Pike, who in the premiere of SNW violated "General Order One" so badly that they renamed it to the Prime Directive, which he scoffed "that'll never stick"?

Did kirks time have a temporal prime directive??

You never mentioned Picard. I remember him breaking the rules from time to time.

Picard never broke the rules and still got himself out of every jam. Even in Star Trek 9 he recognized his higher-ups were the ones breaking the prime directive and he went against the Admiral.

I would have loved to have seen Benjamin Maxwell back in DS9.

Must admit, I didn't expect Harry Kim at number one.

Had to go looking which episode it was where Tom Paris was in gold.

There's only the Janeway. screw the temporal prime directive.

Pressman likely wound up in Section 31 during the Dominion War.

Dulmur: Be specific, Captain, which Enterprise? There've been five. Lucsly: Six. Captain Sisko: This was the first Enterprise - Constitution-class. Dulmur: His ship! Lucsly: James T. Kirk. Captain Sisko: The one and only! Lucsly: Seventeen separate temporal violations; the biggest file on record. Dulmur: The man was a menace. Star Trek Deep Space 9 Season 5 -Episode 6 Trials and Tribble-ations

Even McCoy? You mean ESPECIALLY McCoy!

Alt Kirk snapped the prime directive in half to save Spock from that volcano.,

I'd say the main thing with Kirk "breaking the rules" is that, by the rules.of the original series, he zigged within the rules as opposed to zagged - so still opporated within the framework of the rules, but interpreted them different. The one "Biggie" for Kirk was his theft of the USS Enterprise 1701 (no bloody, A, B, C or D) to fly to Genesis - both major rule violations, with the subsequent destruction of the old conie being the third. Following his voluntary return on the Bounty (via 20th century earth - another violation) he again follows the rules, with Spock and Sulu being the primary rule breakers. Heck, the guy gives up the chance to rush to the rescue once more on the Enterprise B reminding captain Harriman that the captains place is on the bridge, thereby saving John's life by pretty much saying "this ship is too young to be without her captain, and I'm a relic who knows what he's doing". Also, everyone takes a sip for Captain Kim!

I do feel that one thing was slightly hinted at, with the smallest clip right at the end of his bit, but Captain Spock did one other thing in Star Trek VI that violated regulations, not only Starfleet but I believe also some Vulcan regulations as well. To avoid triggering anyone who has experienced r word related trauma, including myself, I will simply say the interrogation of Lieutenant Valeris via forced mind-meld. I don't think I need to say any more.

Rule-breaking seems to be part of the job requirements of a Starfleet Captain.

What happens to phaser fire that misses its target in a space battle? Does it go on until it hits someone on a planet hundreds of years later?

The right pimp hand of Sisko is by far the meanest in the Alpha Quadrant.

A more impressive video would be 10 captains who didn't break the rules.

10 times Janeway broke the rules... and murdered Tuvix, am I right?

Kirk is #1 to me he didn't follow rules much. Then Janeway 😆

Bureaucratic Temporal Mechanics called dude, send your syllabus to Galactic Defense Academy for Fall semester. Peace.

>>Janeway kept her conscious clear. Tuvix.

I suppose Michael Burnham broke rules way before being a captain.

A couple of comments It’s Ronald Tracey, not Donald Is it possible you were confusing him with Donald Corey? Who was in charge of the asylum to which Captain Garth (LORD Garth) was committed ( Captain Garth was the first non regular character I thought of for this topic.

Reminder: Captain Jelico is not on the list because he never broke any Rule. Be like Jelico. Good Starfleet Captains follow orders.

It's Ronald Tracey, not Donald Tracey! Actually, he was addressed as 'Ron"

2:28 I don’t like it when characters in Star Trek’s 24th century are said to „loose everything“ because no one looses everything in the Federation! Maxwell still can live a comfortable life with a house and enough food and so on. Compared to if someone looses their career in our time, they could indeed loose everything and live poorly on the street. Captain Braxton can write a Klingon opera on that topic!

Agree with most of your rankings except two. Kirk should be number 5 and Hulu six.

I thought it was Ronald Tracy.

No Captain Archer - so I turned off before the end 😢

By space being more unexplored, this meant Kirk had more in common with British Royal navy commanders on the opposite side of the Earth, then those of the future's next generation. At least as far as command prerogatives were concerned. We good, Sean?🙂...

6 is the best star trek movie. fight me!

Pressman was right 🤣

Was it Donald or Ron(ald) Tracey?

No Captain Picard???

The right way, the wrong way ... the Janeway! *

It was Ronald Tracy not Donald Tracey

What named captains didn't?

Which Star Trek Captains that did Not Break the Rules?

William T Riker anyone? Anyone? Best of both worlds? No? Ok, just me…

Lol... Running out of content y'all? I've seen tons of variations of this topic. I got dozens of Star Trek subjects you all have never touched. Hit me up.

Show me a list of captains who didnt break the rules!