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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5021308" data-attributes="member: 54707">You certainly can't execute a man for being an ass, or you'd have to execute an awful lot of people. Were I in command however, Rush is without a doubt the single biggest danger to the lives of every other crewman on the ship.Executions like that aren't meant to be Justice, they're meant to be preventive maintenance, so that you never have to employ justice to clean up the innocent lives the man has proven more than willing and cowardly enough to spill. Don't misunderstand me, I get and agree with your point. I know the show won't execute him, cause it's just a show. And Young is just a character, and so is Rush. No-one is gonna really suffer because of Rush. I'm just saying if he were that type of threat on my ship and to my crew he'd be a dead threat.And dead threats are always the best kind in real life. Because real life isn't about interestingly difficult and conflicted and ruthlessly treacherous characters and the unending struggles between you, it's about surviving them, so they don't survive you and the ones you're assigned to protect.This idea has occurred to me as well, from the beginning, as has the idea that parts of Destiny are either currently or temporarily or sporadically inhabited by or occupied by aliens.My basic assumption as well, from the first episode. Whatever his real cause, he appears and seems (at least most of the time) intensely self-absorbed and dangerous. And as a trained commander (a TV one might, but not a real commander) you don't leave dangeorus men alive to your rear. Unless you have a plan.That's an interesting general concept and had occurred to me as well as a possibility. That the whole thing with the frame-up was a frame up because the crew is already aware that they are being observed. That Young and Rush had expected to find the alien ship abandoned at the locale they did. that it was a planting operation. I think it unlikely but it is possible.If it is a planting operation then it would explain why Young left his and Rush's equipment behind. Why leave behind supplies and equipment you cannot recover when you can just say, "I lost Rush in a rockslide, but I was able to recover some of our equipment." In survival situations like this equipment can sometimes be as important as man-power.There is also the possibility that this entire marooning episode was staged to throw off the traitor at SG Command who I now assume to most likely be Lou Diamond Phillip's character, though that traitor may also very well be aboard ship. (The actual possibility of either would be remote, but this is a show, and as such an on-going traitor problem is a good plot device. Even if most have viewers have forgotten about the actual implications of that at this point.)In that case there may be actionable Intel on ship through one of the Kinos. I assume for the moment that the part of the data stream Young told Eli to erase from his hard-drive may involved either such a traitor or may show an alien at work on ship.</blockquote>

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