10 Worst Admirals In Star Trek

In the utopian future of Star Trek, what makes an Admiral choose the life of a Badmiral?

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[donaldmacarthur]

I truly love how quickly Admiral Haftal "scrubbed in" to help Data try to save Lal. And the look of pain and sadness on his face when he reported to Picard that they failed. Definitely left him with honor and dignity others on this list don't have.

[jvaski]

Say what you want about Haftel, Nicolas Coster's performance on the episode was incredible. Him coming out of the 'surgery' and describing Data's attempts to save Lal always stuck with me.

[azhder]

"The needs of the many" applied by own decision to sacrifice one self (Spock) vs "How many does it take Admiral" applied to a decision to sacrifice others. It's not about the number, it's about who decides for whom.

[Pfalzgarage]

You should do another list with "10 most hated admirals" for those who were not as objectively bad at their job, but still big jerks with big insignias.

[mattbillington]

Can’t agree with Ross, he did what was needed to save the federation just like sisko did with senator vreenak

[charlesajones]

Surprised Admiral Buenamigo wasn't on here. I liked that he kinda gave an explanation for why the "evil" Admiral is such a common occurrence. Once you reach Admiral you hit a wall. You have to do something extreme to get noticed and make a difference.

[gbkworf]

You forgot a big one. Admiral Kennelly ordered Picard and the Enterprise to stand down allowing the Cardassians to destroy a ship they believed were full of alleged Bajoran terrorists.  This was the intro episode to Ensign Ro Laren.

[johnchedsey]

One thing I've really appreciated about the last two seasons of Discovery is Admiral Vance is *good*. Good character, good admiral and even if he's having to adversarial for an episode, it's done in a way that you know he's doing things for the right reasons. I mean, you gotta have conflict between characters for a good story, after all!

[mooniejohnson]

I 100% understand why Adm. Buenamigo isn't on this list... but any adminal named "Good Friend" is definitely not one.

[gwenever]

I definitely think Admiral Janeaway should be on this list, and high on it too, her breaking of the Temporal Prime Directive can never be excused, its potential for damage is higher than anything else on this list. And actions have consequences, and now she is in Prodigy could this past be coming back to haunt her, are her actions responsible for Chakotay's & The Protostar's disappearance, after all the Diviner may have encountered them in a future time and brought them back to the present? As you said on screen an admiral is responsible for many ships and decisions yet here she is off solo, on a wild goose chase

[ObeMossop]

7:26 No Jamison died because he took BOTH doses. The people he procured it from clearly said that one dose was enough and would reverse his ageing slowly. Because he needed to be in “fighting fit” shape to fight Karnass, he took the dose intended for his wife as well. This is why he got younger very quickly, and it killed him.

[YolandaAnneBrown]

Props for the wonderful comments on the late Brock Peters. ST6 is my favorite TOS movie, fighting neck-and-neck to The Wrath of Khan, and he was so terrifying ruthless!

[leewishnov]

Honorable mention to Admiral Kennelly who was tricked by the Cardassians although he clearly knew something since he was being covert on his own.

[originalrockhead]

I would really love to see you guys rank all the Star Trek doctors from worst to best

[davidmitchell]

I suddenly considered the time-travelling Admiral Janeway. Although her motives were to save her crew earlier(especially Tuvok), she did stuff. She stole advanced technology, messed with the timeline, introduced the Borg to tech that won’t exist for 30 years(remember, their best trait is that they adapt and quickly) and clearly threw every rule and common sense out the window. While still a captain, she had several time travel encounters as well as cautions from the 29th century, so she of all people should know better.

[piquels]

Come to think of it, Sarek should have recruited a Vulcan ship to infiltrate Genesis and retrieve Spock's body. I'm sure a Vulcan admiral would have understood the urgency.

[trekaddict]

Kirk sucked as an Admiral, true, but Starfleet seems to have understood this, and did what I like to call "promote him back to Captain" where he always was the most useful. I also got the sense that at the very least by WOK, if not TPM already, he really regretted taking that promotion. Hell, by Generations he straight up tells Picard not to do it if it's offered.

[Blazingstoke]

How is Admiral Buenamigo not on here? He was literally going to murder an entire starship crew to cover up the flaws of his pet project.

[Akira]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching TNG, it’s that whenever an admiral beams onboard the Enterprise, they bring trouble with them. Is there something in the water over at Starfleet Command? There’s no shortage of Starfleet admirals who make absolutely terrible decisions, or break the very rules they’re supposed to uphold, or get involved in conspiracies.

[thisisbeej]

Great vid! Though I think you forgot about Admiral Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager's End Game finale. If you are going to make Admiral Kirk #2 on this list, then Janeway easily tops Kirk as she basically did the same thing as Kirk -- save her crew -- but on a dramatically larger scale. Janeway committed treason in her timeline in an effort to violate the temporal prime directive -- and succeeded! Janeway outright rewrote history to bring Voyager home, and the butterfly effects that came with that have never been explored to my knowledge, at least on screen. People completely written out of existence, etc; I love Star Trek: Voyager, and I love Captain Janeway, but, in the context of this video, using your own criteria for Kirk and omitting Janeway feels like an oversight. What Kirk did is small fries compared to how Janeway went about her mission.