Star Trek Captain Edward Jellico

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Report this Sep. 25 2009, 8:07 pm

I'm wondering what thoughts people have of Edward Jellico in Chain of Command.I want to share my thoughts of the character and the actor and ask some questions that some one might be able to answer.

I think that the character of Edward Jellico brought the most realistic dramatic tension to TNG that the show ever had. The story line of Jellico and his relationships was just as compelling as that of Picard as prisoner of Cardassian David Warner. This seemed more like a real life situation to me. It could happen at some one's job. Troi wore the uniform from that point on. I wonder about the relationship between Jellico and Admiral Nechayev.

I think that actor Rony Cox's performance as Captain Jellico was fantastic. He's my favorite guest of all. He made me doubt William Riker's ability. Imagine Riker in the crossfire between Jelico
and Nechayev? I wanted more Jellico after that, but it never happened on the show.

Does anyone know if there is any Trek canon on the future of Jelllico? Did he survive the Dominion War?

Does anyone else like Jellico or have any thoughts?

BrotherofShran01

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Report this Sep. 26 2009, 4:09 pm

I felt that Captain Jellico was a good starship Captain, but he was not the type of Captain that I would want as my commanding officer. He doesn't inspire the type of loyalty that Captain Archer, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, or Janeway would with their crew. So far, I am not aware of any additional information about Jellico past the TNG episode. I would have loved to see him and Gul Dukat match wits against each other in battle.

dendar

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Report this Sep. 26 2009, 4:24 pm

I wouldn't want to work for Jellico either.

Thank you for the feed back!

BrotherofShran01

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Report this Sep. 26 2009, 4:44 pm

No problem dendar. I do not know gave you a proper greeting. If not, Welcome to the Star Trek and TNG boards.

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Report this Sep. 28 2009, 6:50 pm

I liked Captain Jellico as played by Ronny Cox. He certainly had a different command style than Picard, and I think the crew (esp. Riker) acted very unprofessionally. Only Data, who had no feelings to bruise, did his job as he should have.

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Report this Sep. 28 2009, 7:51 pm

Jellico was awesome! The crew did seem like they were on a pleasure cruise at times and did act unprofessionally toward Jellico. I wish we had seen more of him later.

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Report this Sep. 28 2009, 7:55 pm

jellico was a great captain... although he came on the ship guns blazing, and the crew kept fighting him... both sides could have done things differntly but they gelled quick enough

RedShirtGuyNumber1001

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Report this Sep. 28 2009, 11:05 pm

I liked Jellico, I thought that Captains were too magoo except for Kirk and Sisko, Picard gave us a few bad ass moments but it would have been nice to see more of them. But I also thought TNG was too perfect.

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Report this Sep. 29 2009, 5:32 am

I thought he was entirely culpable for the failure of the ED-209 project. :rookie:

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Report this Sep. 29 2009, 11:52 am

The timing of Jellico's mission didn't allow him to warm up to the crew or vice versa. He was leading Enterprise into a potential battle scenario, and he needed the crew on it's toes, no questions asked. If it were a different situation, he may not have been such a hard-nose.

RedShirtGuyNumber1001

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Report this Sep. 29 2009, 4:05 pm

Quote (CornishMonkey @ Sep. 29 2009, 5:32 am)

I thought he was entirely culpable for the failure of the ED-209 project. :rookie:

lol......wow robocop cool :-)

I agree Jellico was a soldier and probably had more battle experience. I liked how this showed that not everyone in starfleet were pacifists or naive. I'm glad that we saw he wasn't going to take it up the exhaust port from the cardassians.

subytrek

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Report this Sep. 29 2009, 5:40 pm

Jellico would have been a great captain in DS9 during the Dominion War. He probably was a decorated war hero during the war.

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Report this Sep. 29 2009, 6:38 pm

Quote (starbase63 @ Sep. 28 2009, 5:24 pm)

Jellico has always made for good discussion here.

Was he a good captain in the sense he knew his job and how to do it and expected people to do their jobs as well? Certainly. But his leadership skills were somewhat lacking. His style certainly did not inspire teamwork, but a "because I said so" sense of command.

:logical:

Yeah, discussed many times, and your right about his leadership skills, but for me Riker comes out of this looking like a total D!ck.

Jellico wasn't there to make friends, or have his every command second guessed, he knew what he had to do and just got on with it, if the roles were reversed Riker would have done exactly the same, IMO.

dendar

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Report this Sep. 30 2009, 5:54 pm

I thought that Jellico would have been in a key position during the Dominion War. The thing is, an awful lot of ships were destroyed. He certainly would have been an admiral by the war's end should he have survived the war.

I have just read that I'm not the only one who, sort of, took Jellico's side in "Riker vs Jellico".

With Trek taking a completely new direction, I fear that here will never be any more Trek canon of Jellico.

I thank all for their posts.

subytrek

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Report this Sep. 30 2009, 6:15 pm

Mirror Jellico? I wonder what he would be like?

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