Lightening the duty load of all your crew, giving them extra R&R, reducing or elimination redundancies by ensuring departments are working with optimal manning and not having ensigns around trying to look busy, with the benefit of potentially have two other shifts on standby should Yellow or Red Alert need to be called. The E-D’s biggest issue is the ship was a massive luxury liner that was effectively overstaffed. Re-allocate those resources and now the ship runs better than ever.
Again, possibly sensible in a vacuum but not a great move when you need the ship to work properly right now. Changeovers like this incur temporary inefficiency as new schedules have to be drawn up and adapted to. Showing up out of nowhere, demanding that everyone execute the changeover (planning and all) within several hours doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me at the best of times, much less when the ship is going to do double duty with delicate diplomacy work and backup for a covert ops mission.
And that’s not the only time he pisses people off with no explanation. He shows up in engineering and demands a two-day death march project to overhaul the warp drive for no reason other than he thinks it should be more efficient. Sure, Starfleet engineers routinely deal with such circumstances but it’s usually for a well-known reason and not “because I say so” over the active objections of the department head. And overworking the engineers doesn’t sound very efficient in anything but he short term.
I maintain that Jellico may have a decent understanding on how to efficiently operate a starship but he’s not very good at actually leading a crew.
Lightening the duty load of all your crew, giving them extra R&R, reducing or elimination redundancies by ensuring departments are working with optimal manning and not having ensigns around trying to look busy, with the benefit of potentially have two other shifts on standby should Yellow or Red Alert need to be called. The E-D’s biggest issue is the ship was a massive luxury liner that was effectively overstaffed. Re-allocate those resources and now the ship runs better than ever.
Again, possibly sensible in a vacuum but not a great move when you need the ship to work properly right now. Changeovers like this incur temporary inefficiency as new schedules have to be drawn up and adapted to. Showing up out of nowhere, demanding that everyone execute the changeover (planning and all) within several hours doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me at the best of times, much less when the ship is going to do double duty with delicate diplomacy work and backup for a covert ops mission.
And that’s not the only time he pisses people off with no explanation. He shows up in engineering and demands a two-day death march project to overhaul the warp drive for no reason other than he thinks it should be more efficient. Sure, Starfleet engineers routinely deal with such circumstances but it’s usually for a well-known reason and not “because I say so” over the active objections of the department head. And overworking the engineers doesn’t sound very efficient in anything but he short term.
I maintain that Jellico may have a decent understanding on how to efficiently operate a starship but he’s not very good at actually leading a crew.