Posted on 12/04/2022 3:54:57 AM PST by C19fan
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Episode 16 - "Preludes"Admiral Edward Jellico (Ronny Cox) is generally hated, but in Star Trek: Prodigy, Jellico also happens to be right. Jellico is currently overseeing Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway's (Kate Mulgrew) mission to find Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) and the USS Protostar in the Delta Quadrant. Jellico ordered Janeway not to enter the Romulan Neutral Zone to chase after the Protostar. It may be an unpopular decision, but Jellico is making the right call by forbidding Janeway to take action.
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Of course, the name Jellico is a reference to Admiral Jellico of the Royal Navy. Jellico commanded the Royal Navy Grand Fleet at Jutland. He understood the responsibility of his position by commenting about he was the only person in the British military who could lose the war in one day. Based on this story this futuristic Jellico is just like his perhaps ancestor.
He was right. The ship was getting soft.
In universe, they were preparing for the Borg.
Out universe, and the show was written to get Troi out of the spam leggings.
Had Jellico been in command of the Enterprise at the first encounter with the Borg he’d blown them out of space. Picard was soft and let the Borg download the database. He cost the Federation many lives.
I don’t know if Jellico could have had more success than Picard upon meeting the Borg, but I do agree he probably would have gotten out a lot quicker than Picard did.
Agreed! Jellicoe was a great captain who got the job done, saved Picard, and whipped the Enterprise-D crew into military shape, albeit temporarily. And Riker should have been permanently relieved of duty and court martialed for insubordination for his bad behavior in that episode.
Is this the new Star Trek iteration that elevated Staci Abrams to President of the Federation?
That was Discovery, or as it’s known to some “STD”.
Agreed. His career would have ended as second in command.
That was Discovery, or as it’s known to some “STD”.
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The most “woke” and most ironically named of the Star Trek franchise. Conversely, I’ve got to say I’ve actually enjoyed the new series, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”. The producers have returned to an episodic format, the plots in the first season were interesting, and the cast is likable, competent, and has good chemistry. Basically the antithesis of STD.
Not sure what that last part means but it’s still funny.
Marina Sirtis was tired of being the pretty lady with only a few lines, so she wanted to stop wearing her purple spandex uniform.
So they created a storyline of Admiral Jellico taking temporary command while Captain Picard was off the ship to make the ship more disciplined. He ordered Deana Troi to start wearing Starfleet uniforms in accordance to regulations governing the bridge officers.
Thx
Are Admiral Jellicoe’s enemies named Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper?
When you see the terms in story or in universe, they mean within the context of the story as to why it was done.
If they say out of story or out of universe, they mean the real reason it was done.
Just to clarify terms, if I wasn’t clear on that.
I knew that. It was the Troi thing I wasn’t sure of.
Ah, ok.
Is Prodigy an animated series?
Star Trek future history posits that warp drive will be invented in 2062.
Warp Drive was a science fiction in the 1960’s. then in the early 1990’s a mexican physicist showed that warp drive was mathmatically possible but physically impossible. About 10 years another physicist showed that warp drive was mathematically possible and physically possible.
What do you think of the idea of offering an annual prize for the person/company that advances warp drive technology?
Will he and Admiral Beatty be sighting enemy battlecruisers near the Jutland Bank star system?
In TNG, Captain Jellico was pretty cool. He managed to get Picard back from the Cardassians by having somebody stealthily plant mines on their ship. Then he played hardball with them by setting off one of the smaller ones as a demonstration, so they gave in to his demands, rather than be destroyed.
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