I don't have a livejournal, but I really wanted to comment on this fic, so please forgive the anon.

Thank you very much for writing this, allaire, I love this fic. The reaction of the scientists is believable and admirable.

After "Critical mass" and later "Michael" I was extremely close to never watching this series again. The only fitting words to describe my feelings for CM are "extremely disgusted", and the same holds true for "Michael".

The parallels to current real life events are obvious. I have no idea how much influence the US military really has on the actual content of the episodes. But to me this series more and more looks like propaganda, trying to spread the so-called "moral standards" the US military is applying in real life and raise their acceptance in the population. And sadly enough, the lack of negative reactions to those episodes seems to indicate it's working quite well.