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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I always thought the producers may have mishandled the writing in that episode a bit. It should have been a moment for Rikers pride to be absolutely smashed and he should have realized how much of an idiot he was and maybe he was getting way too comfy under Picard. It was also a big opportunity to show how lax Picard has become; a pretty big change from the Picard who first stepped on to the enterprise.
In the end we were left coming close to those things, but i think the way the episode was cut and then future episodes ran it made it just seem like Jellico was a random ######. But really, he was a captain in a high pressure situation expecting the best from the allegedly best crew in the fleet. And he almost got sunk because of insubordination!
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It is amazing how we look at things so differently given a little time.
I probably watched that episode for the first time when I was barely a teenager? Not when it came out. And at that time it was more like:
"He's a big meany and they're messing with MY crew and Riker is going to set him straight!"
Me watching it now essentially thinks about it almost exactly as you do...and maybe my perception is clouded by Lower Decks showing us that these people arent perfect and there are some serious issues here.
Like...Riker man...what are you doing?
I think we're supposed to be attached to the Enterprise Crew and not the concept of Starfleet as a whole, we're given this isolated perspective, and yeah, its the Flagship so we just naturally assume that this is the way its supposed to be and that this guy is, as you put, just some random ###hole.
But then the Universe is expanded and you look back on this and its...*awkward collar tug*