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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5019637" data-attributes="member: 19675">No, actually, Young acted within the confines of both most military codes of justice and within the confines of a field known as "Lifeboat Ethics."  Rush, as stated before, has endangered the crew about as many times as he has saved them, and has been divisive, dismissive and disruptive of the ship's command heirarchy.In an emergency situation, that kind of behavior can be as dangerous as the situation itself.He framed Young for murder (though he probably expected Young to beat the charge), and as Eli pointed out, Rush's testimony implicated the Colonel as much as it purported to distance the scientist from trying to convict him.Rush's final words to Young sealed his sentence, as it were, when he stated it would never end between the 2 of them.  Young had a choice- the personnel on the ship needed at least one of them to return from the planet- but like Siamese Fighting Fish, they obviously couldn't co-exist in within the same cramped confines.  Rationally & objectively, Young probably wasn't going to choose himself to remain behind.Rush did a lot of things for the safety of the crew...as long as they served his own purposes (including self-preservation).  I'm pretty sure he wasn't kidding when he thought Telford's "jump home" plan was flawed and would result in the ship's destruction.However, he was pretty cavalier with the lives of others when it came time to risk lives.  The clearest example of this was "The Chair"- as Young figured out, Rush wanted to risk using it to learn about the ship, despite a track history of such devices being a virtually guaranteed death sentence.  But when given the option of sitting in it himself, Rush balked...then talked to others about the boon the device might represent.Like the (insightfully) aforementioned Dr. Smith, Rush envisioned himself at the apex of value to everyone on the ship, meaning his desires and needs were paramount.  That someone might thwart or delay his wishes- even for perfectly rational reasons- resulted in that person being framed for murder.There's a word for that type of personality- "sociopath."You're dead on about that- assuming the writers are up to snuff, the question of who framed Col. Young should continue to nag the more intelligent or paranoid among the ship's inhabitants, resulting in further tension and dramatic potential.Especially if Rush does escape his exile (as we all seem to be assuming he must).</blockquote>

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