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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5395088" data-attributes="member: 41321">Just saw this episode on Hulu.  Have not seen later episodes yet - no spoilers for those, please.I'm wondering if the whole situation with Chloe is a way to write her out, since she appears to be an unpopular character.  I started thinking about that when Young made the comment about having to let her go (or something along those lines) when he was confronted by Scott.  Assuming she is some sort of sleeper cell left by the aliens, they may end up having no choice but to leave her on the most hospitable planet they come across in order to avoid the sort of confrontation with the blue aliens that the simulation was about.Regarding the ship not being able to pilot while running the simulation, I found that completely believable.  We know the ship is not in good shape.  It's capable of plotting a course, running life support, and attempting to anticipate the needs of its crew (which is fed into the course-plotting routine when it determines what gates to stop at).  But perhaps its processing power or RAM-equivalent has been compromised over time.  I work in tech support for a software company, and I once got a call from a very irate customer who claimed that his machine used to work fine, but now all of a sudden it couldn't run our data logging program and our user interface at the same time.  The machine would grind to a halt and be unable to do anything.  After days of trying to figure out why the performance of the machine had tanked the customer finally called us back and apologized.  They noticed that the case on the machine was crooked as if it hadn't been closed properly, and when they opened it up they found out that someone had stolen the machine's RAM.  It had gone from 4 GB to something like 256 MB.  The machine was no longer capable of running our software.  (I believe they installed locks on their PC cases after that.)So, I find it completely believable that something like this has happened to Destiny, albeit due to degradation over time instead of theft.  Its AI is complex enough to study the crew, but its hardware is sub-par at the moment, meaning it had to sacrifice cycles from the course-plotting subroutine in favor of the simulation subroutine.  To go back again to a real-world computer metaphor, it would be like trying to run a complex 3D modeling program on an average PC - you could do it, but it would take weeks to render and good luck getting your PC to multitask in the meantime.  The software's good, but the hardware ain't.</blockquote>

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