Gonna try something very different today. How you guys react to it will determine if I do something again like it in the future.
For a long time now, Iâve received many emails and comments requesting an article about how to identify Alpha Males and beta males. I never thought of an entertaining or interesting way of doing this, until one day, the idea hit me out of the blue, as they so often do.
I sometimes use the examples of celebrities and fictional characters to illustrate my points. This way, itâs easier for you to instantly recognize the examples. This is often better than me just describing a hypothetical person youâve never seen or met.
Today, Iâm going to take this to the next level and use a TV show that the vast majority of you should know at least reasonably well, and use the characters in that show to demonstrate how to identify types of men (and women) in terms of the categories I discuss on this blog.
Since Iâm a huge nerd, Iâm a big Star Trek fan. A while back, I decided to write an article laying out the characters from one particular Star Trek show, how they categorize, and why I think they fall into the categories they do. The problem was to determine which Star Trek show to use, since as many of you know, there are five different Star Trek shows (with one or two new ones coming very soon).
The original 1960âs Star Trek didnât have a large enough cast, and would have been too easy, it being a product of the more black-and-white time. Deep Space Nine is by far the best Star Trek show ever on television, and itâs actually my second favorite TV show of all time (Lost is my first). Deep Space Nine has the deepest, richest, and most interesting characters of any Star Trek show, by far. Yet, I donât think quite as many people would be as familiar with these characters. The same goes for the shows Voyager and Enterprise.
That leaves Star Trek: The Next Generation. That was a good show, though not my favorite for many reasons, but I think enough of you will know the characters of that show in order to have some commonality for what Iâm about to discuss.
So letâs look at the characters of STNG using the criteria that I use, show you where they fall into the Alpha or beta range for the men, and the Dominant, Submissive, and Independent categories I use for women. Since no male characters in the regular cast of STNG were Alpha Male 2.0âs, Iâm just going to use the term âAlphaâ instead of breaking out 1.0 or 2.0, and you can safely assume that when I say âAlpha,â I mean the original meaning of the word, which is an Alpha Male 1.0.
Note that for you non-nerds, I will be using some Star Trek references in my descriptions, but Iâll try to keep them as light as I can. If this article gets enough traffic / likes / links / reposts, I will do another one of these with some other cool TV show (or movie series) in the future.
Letâs do thisâ¦
Picard is an Alpha. Heâs tough, courageous, masculine, and an inspiring leader. He doesnât back down and stands his ground. Even when being humiliated or physically tortured he doesnât submit. Like most characters in STNG, he has an iron-clad set of principles that he never wavers on, even if it causes him to suffer personally. He regularly gets pissed off, raises his voice, and shuts other people down verbally.
Despite his smaller stature, heâs physically fit (causing younger women in the audience to actually get excited when he wears a tank top, like in the movie Star Trek â First Contact) and moves with a confidence bordering on stiffness. He commands the room simply by entering it.