And Captain Harriman, who accomplished what a thousand Klingon and Romulean captains had never been able to accomplish. He got Kirk killed. That alone should put him on the top of the pyramid. Kang sure couldn't do it.
And of course, they forgot the real, very first female Captain of the Enterprise... Captain Rachel Garrett of the Enterprise-C of Yesterday's Enterprise
More info at http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rachel_Garrett and Tracia O'Neil's Imdb page
And after I got Kirk killed... I got to do all those porn jokes on "Spin City!"
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Technically, Picard got Kirk killed. He couldn’t just leave him alone in the Nexus to enjoy his retirement.
But now we have yet another time line with Kirk and a first officer spock who is looking for a “special” friend. (that timeline’s uhura is going to have to figure out why spock is hanging with the boys...”
“...other captains would have put military discipline ahead of titillation and ordered Troi back into proper uniform.”
I’m willing to stretch believability as far as Troi and Seven of Nine were willing to stretch their uniforms.