"I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats.
They invade our space and we fall back.
They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back.
Not again.
The line must be drawn here!
This far, no further!
And I will make them pay for what they've done!"
Maybe it's because my Star Trek experience was engulfing entire series episode to episode, season to season back to back at a playback rate of 1.5x so I didn't have the time to emotionally involve myself, but I honestly can't say I liked any of the captains.