It's a boring romance episode between Chloe and that Scott guy (ugh). And it's made worse by the fact that Col. Young behaves in ways inconsistent with recent previous behavior. Remember the episode where he refused to vent the atmosphere of the gate room during the attack by the Lucian Alliance even though General O'Neil said he should? All to save a guy who had a record of betraying Earth for the Lucian Alliance... Telford. He wasn't willing to sacrifice Telford to trap the Lucian Alliance invading troops in a vacuum so they could be easily killed or subdued without casualties from his crew, even though it ended up costing him the life of at least one of his soldiers who was executed by the Lucian Alliance. Perhaps more. An awful decision on his part that was, frankly, implausibly bad. No intelligent commanding officer would make such a decision to surrender the gate room to the Lucian Alliance so they can gain a foothold on the ship and cause all sorts of trouble, but Col. Young did. And it was an awful episode because the whole thing was based on him making that bad decision. However, lets think for a minute. Col. Young refused to allow Scott back on the ship after he was infected, because doing so would put the rest of the crew of the Destiny at risk. Fundamentally, that decision is no different from his decision to save Telford by not venting the gate room atmosphere, thereby putting the rest of the crew at risk of being killed by the Lucian Alliance. There is a logical inconsistency in Col. Young's behavior in each of these episodes, and given that both of them occurred so recently, it's difficult to forgive. To put it simply, these two episodes and Col. Young's incompatible behavior in each of them are examples of bad writing despite the fact Col. Young made the right decision in denying Scott permission to return to the Destiny because of the alien organism that had infected him.
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