Not only is this episode a flashback-ridden filler with the old-faithful 'trial' scenario that sci-fi series watchers have come to know and hate, this particular script wrenches a rather uncomfortably closed door wide open.
From the outset you know they're guilty of at least one, if not all charges. The horrendous disregard for the Geneva Convention for which the American military is world-renowned is gut-twistingly exhibited in the series 2 episode; Michael. For the crime of using a prisoner as a test subject for gene manipulation the entire expedition should have been halted right then and there.
You just know it will come up in the 'trial', and that it will be glossed over like it was of little or no consequence.
And then, right at the end, when it looks as though they may just get their just desserts; they bring out the bribery. "That's it folks, nothing to see here. All's well that ends well. The right decision has been made... nudge, nudge... wink, wink..." It's sickening. The writers can't even stand up for their own calamitous story lines. It really does show a serious lack of imagination.
From the outset you know they're guilty of at least one, if not all charges. The horrendous disregard for the Geneva Convention for which the American military is world-renowned is gut-twistingly exhibited in the series 2 episode; Michael. For the crime of using a prisoner as a test subject for gene manipulation the entire expedition should have been halted right then and there.
You just know it will come up in the 'trial', and that it will be glossed over like it was of little or no consequence.
And then, right at the end, when it looks as though they may just get their just desserts; they bring out the bribery. "That's it folks, nothing to see here. All's well that ends well. The right decision has been made... nudge, nudge... wink, wink..." It's sickening. The writers can't even stand up for their own calamitous story lines. It really does show a serious lack of imagination.