Star Trek

Quote (subytrek @ Sep. 30 2009, 5:15 pm)

Mirror Jellico? I wonder what he would be like?

He would have knit tea cozies in his spare time to give to the crew as birthday gifts.

I didn't have a problem with Jellico, it was his ship and his style of command.  I find it likely that Jellico would have transferred in a new senior staff had he retained command, maybe keeping Data as his XO.

The problem I have with the episode is why Starfleet would take an aging starship captain and a chief medical officer from the same ship and have them go all spy like that.  Worf I can understand, Picard and Crusher, no way.

I know there would have been no episode if Picard hadn't gone, but surely they could have come up with a different way to accomplish it.  Like, the Cardassians attack the Enterprise or kidnap the three officers on Risa or something.

Quote (subytrek @ Sep. 28 2009, 6:40 pm)

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

It was mentioned in DS9 that the Cairo was destroyed during the war, but Jellico was not in command.  Therefore he either was promoted, retired, or was killed somewhere else.  The most plausible explanation is that he was promoted to have a superior ship or onwards to admiral.

He was responsible for getting Troi out of those purple pajamas and into in a blue uniform. And for that? We should all be eternally grateful.

Jellico was the right man at the right time for the job at hand. He knew that he needed to employ a very directed and authoritarian style to get the ship and crew ready for action. In that way, I think he was a very good captain. Likely, the style he displayed in "Chain of Command" was not the style he typically employed on the Ciaro.

I always find it amusing when I watch that episode and I see how the crew really does not handle change well. I think to a number of business scenarios I have been involved in where change is necessary to the survival of the organization, and there is ALWAYS a reaction like this toward the new style.

It really is a brilliant episode, and Jellico is a great character.