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Many, many years ago....I was working for the department of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and he was a guest speaker at an event on campus. He came into my boss's office and asked to USE MY PHONE! I was alone with the Roo. WORSHIPED him as a kid. He was very kind and polite, of course. I stood there star struck.
Here's to you internet person. You really get it.
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excuse me while i melt 
he's been my starship captain husband for 20 years.
As a teenager in the late sixties, I once was on a bus trip that stopped at an old town called Motrico, somewhere on the Basque coast between San Sebastian and Bilbao. The place looked almost unreconstructed since the late Roman times, and everyone was speaking Basque to each other--not something you heard too often any more, even back then.
A few friends and I wandered down to the tiny pier, where some old fishermen were hanging around, and we tried out our few words of Basque on them, which thrilled the hell out them. These guys were old enough to remember the Spanish Civil War and Franco's attempts to eradicate their language and culture. Out of nowhere, here pop up a few high school kids from "Norteamérica" right on their forgotten pier by the sea, and come out with a few words of their language.
The rest of our conversation was in Castillian, as our "Euskera" was exhausted after the first few phrases. One of the old guys then stepped on another's foot by accident, and the victim cried out "¡Coño!"
We laughed, recognizing the swear word in Castillian, and asked "¿Qué dijo, Capitán?" (What did you say, Captain?)
Quick on their feet, another of the old Basques explained, "no se perocupen. Este es su nombre. Este es el Capitán Coño." (Don't worry, that's just his name. This is Captain Coño."
We only had an hour in this tiny village, and I never made it back there (I understand it has been built up in the meantime--a REAL shame). "Capitán Coño" is either long gone by now, or else he must be about 120 years old. His memory lives on with the five or so of us that were on that forgotten fishing pier that misty day.
And a great memory to have!
It's less than a 3 hour flight from me, and somehow I never have the time. They're a very special people. More like the ones Nicholai Hel hung around with ("Shibumi" and a lot less like the ETA gang you always heard about in the papers. Nicholai Hel was a figment of Rodney Whitaker's ("Trevanian's" imagination, but Whitaker had spent some time in Euzkadi, and knew whereof he wrote.
I present Capt Kirk
A man of great value and humanity. 
Keep 'em coming 
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from the Samuel R. Delany novel Nova. I read this over 40 years ago and Nova still stands out as one of the most interesting and entertaining science fiction novels I've ever read and the swashbuckling Captain Lorq Von Ray who is a towering light-skinned black man as one of the best heroes.
It took this long to get to Jerry??? 
Picard is pretty damn cool, though.
Unfortunately....
And Janeway got better as the seasons wore on
What did you think of Capt. Lockley, in the fifth season?
Besides, she's from Dickinson, Texas (character and actor)
I'm more likely to see it as the network being cheap (they were with TNT by then, the reason Crusade didn't last.)
Well, I have to get to bed. I'll dig up the interviews and such from the B5 books I have and see if there's more to her demise than is generally known
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I grew up with this one...
Or as Joe Biden said,
"I'm proud to work with Barack America!'"
Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower (though your is a rather close second)
as played by Gregory Peck.
