Retroactive justification for Riker's friction towards Jellico?

[fireproof78]

The change of command was handled poorly. Everyone had a manner of unprofessional behavior throughout the scenario.

Honestly, Picard should have been a mission advisor, and trained the commandos, rather than be a commando. Jellico should have been the mission commander, senior to Picard, and utilize that dynamic to create the drama. Send Riker if you must have a main character held by the Cardassians.

But, all of smacks of deep unprofessionalism.

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

Jellico was more or less right about the mission, about what needed to done... it's just the how it should have been done that he fell down on.

Exactly. If you've inherited a ship that does things a certain way, then you let them keep at it if there's combat in the immediate future.

Honestly, Picard should have been a mission advisor, and trained the commandos, rather than be a commando.

This. The only person who should have been on that strike team was Worf.

Send Riker if you must have a main character held by the Cardassians.

Or if it has to be Picard, have him captured some other way.

 

[Takeru]

Jellico was more or less right about the mission, about what needed to done... it's just the how it should have been done that he fell down on.

This is exactly why I dislike the crew so much in this episode. Jellico was right, he just wasn't nice. If the crew cannot or does not want to see that then maybe they're not that great.

This. The only person who should have been on that strike team was Worf.

Sure but as usual the main characters do things because they are the main characters. Technically senior officer should rarely be on away teams for example, "beam down and check something out" is not a job upper management usually does.

 

[Pumpkin Bread]

This is exactly why I dislike the crew so much in this episode. Jellico was right, he just wasn't nice. If the crew cannot or does not want to see that then maybe they're not that great.

Jellico was right... about some things. Not all. If the Enterprise had had to actually fight when Delta Shift was on duty, it probably would have wound up in fifty million pieces because the crew didn't know their jobs/weren't used to working together/were exhausted from overwork and jet lag. That's the reality of making a change like that without sufficient adjustment time. It doesn't disappear just because you said "get it done", "make it so", "do it", or "pretty please with whipped cream on top".