i like kirk but i go with reynolds,

he is an ex-soldier from a very brutal war and fought, in the most brutal campaign of it serenity valley, he is an excellent shot, good at hand to hand combat being able to go up against a goverment assasin and is quick thinker able to come up with a plan in no time at all, and he has a huge pain tolerance seen when he didnt give in to being tortured and was even able to fight afterwards.

where kirk has an unusual fighting style, lots of rolling, judo chops, and kicks, he has red shirts do his shooting for him, and most of the time he relies on spock,bones, and scotty to come up with the plan, or make his work by filling in the blanks, like scotty a need more power, to destroy this evil space cloud give it to me, without actually telling how to get the power.

good at hand to hand??

Kirk would win… Mal would come in to negotiate a vacation from his crappy solar system… and
/judo chop!

lets look at the judo master that is kirk in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1eFdUSnaQM&feature=fvst

how can a mere mortal ever hope to defeat him.

have you ever fought a sparkly eyed up right lizard in ‘that seventies” leotard??
that totally stress’ ones judo capabilities

depends, the practical applications for a Phaser are almost infiinite… while i have a fondness of the tool of my profession… a Phaser could be left on creating a sweeping motion… plus near light speed projections are awesome…

Yeah thats neat and all but look at the firing rate compared to guns. Much slower.

well phaser does have the advantage in that, if set at higher rate it can vaporise you no matter where it hits.

i cant move FTL so…. dodging a phaser might not be all that easy…

either way i never said i would scrap all kinetic weapons for a phaser… but as duty side arm mk23 or phaser… i think i would have to go with phaser…

how many lightspeeds have you seen?

Kirk “I warn you, I am…capable of huge….feats of skill”
Mal *shoots kirk* “…*incoherant chinese* you people talk too much. Now where are those alien women, Its been far too long and I have a powerful urge to sow my seeds…”

And then Bones and Simon join forces and become a sarcastically powerful medical force, curing all disease ever.

I never watched Star Trek unlike Firefly, so my knowledge on Kirk’s feats are limited.

I did however see his fight with some lizard man… and on the grounds of him looking like a complete jerkass, i’ll throw my vote in with Reynolds for a hand-to-hand fight.

Plus Malcolm is a pretty resourceful guy in his own right. So my money is on him.

Kirk at his finest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTfiRccYIA&feature=related

I’m Captain Kirk!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc&feature=related

Ok jokes over Captain Kirk is one of the best Starfleet officers out there. He has faced countless enemies and beat them all. In the Star Trek Universe he is a legend. So much so even people outside of the Federation knows who he is.

put kirk on a bridge and give him a good crew and he can do the impossible, put him on a planet in a one on one fight and he becomes judo chopping rock throwing maniac, who is captured by every space villian out there.

“Get into a gun fight and he may just have Jayne shoot you instead.”

JAYNNNNNNNEE!

Thank you admin for recognizing Mal needed to be here on Factpile. Anyway, for the fight itself, if we have to go with current incarnations, that’d mean this Captain Kirk is the one who had his ass kicked half the time in the new Star Trek movie.

I think we all know who’d win if this is the case.

Even if it isn’t, I’d still have to say Mal considering the man seems to be a better shot than Kirk, probably equal hand-to-hand fighter (even if he isn’t, he’s certainly a better dirty fighter), and can get his ass kicked alot harder and still not give up (mentioned somewhere above, he was stabbed by a better fighter in Serenity, and still managed to beat him with a screw driver).

Curiously enough, shaun linked videos in post #5 and #10 showing Kirk going up against two creatures with physical strength several times that of Kirk. Gotta remember kiddies, that Star Trek: The Original Series was filmed in the freaking 70s. Comparing the cinematography to a series from the the 2000s is just silly. Now consider the newest Star Trek movie. Kirk got his ass handed to him three times in the movie, the first time he was drunk and faced what, 5 sober rather large gents. The second time was from Spock, and unless everybody seems to be forgetting, the average strength of a Vulcan is THREE times that of a human being. The fact that Spock’s little onslaught didn’t flat out kill him is extremely impressive. The next is when he was fighting the Romulans onboard the Narada, and Romulans also have significantly higher strength then Humans.

Let’s take a look at some of Kirk’s better feats shall we? Sure Reynolds is able to survive with little money, a broken cargo ship and a crew of criminals, but Kirk faced down god-entities on a regular basis. He can go toe to toe with a Vulcan in combat, and attack a Gorn head first in a fist fight. Reynolds is no match for Captain Kirk.

Not to mention that any of the ships Kirk has commanded would be able to destroy the Serenity with it’s exhaust.

Oh… and:

“Yeah but its easy to dodge. All you have to do is duck or move to the side or get behind a large rock.”

You mean like, dodging a normal gun?

@Jwlynas
living aboard the serenity didnt seem so bad

Kirk would take this.

P.S Whomever voted for Chris Pine being a better Captain Kirk in the Poll needs a doctor. (:

Mal would easily beat Kirk, he’d challenge him to a fist fight and then shoot him dead…

“Is this a one-on-one fight between the respective captains by themselves with only what they would carry on their persons on a standard episode or a full comparison on both their fighting skills, aswell as the respective ships and crews that they could call upon?”

Even Malcolm reynolds admits the Enterprise is a better ship than Serenity. Well, not Mal, but Nathan Fillion, the actor who plays him. Best conversation ever, between scotty and Mal (Simon Pegg and Nathan Fillion)

And if we’re to compare crews I think its a little unfair. Even if we just stick to the more famous named guys, Kirks team would outnumber Mal’s. and if we’re talking about the full crews… overkill.