Ever since the birth of the Star Trek franchise, a wide variety of characters have passed across the small screen, from one-off characters like the LGTBQ+ allegory Soren, to forever-returning ones like the near omnipotent Q. While many of these characters leave good lasting impressions on fans, there are a few that go down in history as universally disliked, and that audiences are glad only appear for short periods of time. Potentially one of the most universally disliked supposed ‘good-guys’ was captain Jellico, the short time replacement for Picard on board the iconic Enterprise D. But did he truly deserve the hate he gets?