Ah the age old stereotypical Nerd question: Which Star Fleet Captain was better – Kirk or Picard?
Picard.
Not even a contest.
Frankly, the original Star Trek was an interesting premise that opened a new realm of realistic science fiction and I love it for that – but the show itself was mediocre at best for the most part. The acting was terrible. And William Shatner is objectively an awful actor who played a mediocre character. The best parts of the original Star Trek were scenes where Kirk was absent entirely, or relegated to a side character not key to the plot.
You are welcome to disagree – but you are wrong.