Hm. I generally try to steer clear of TV, but sci-fi is my exception. Provided it is palatable. Geek nitpicks: 1. Astronauts not behaving like the high-caliber, psychologically uber-stable, super-scientists they are supposed to be. You don't put second-tier humans into space. You can't afford to when entrusting them with bazillion dollar projects. As such, if weird alien contact scenarios unfold, they wouldn't freak out and do irrational things, such as failing to establish quarantine protocols, communication protocols, and every other relevant protocol which has been thought up by several years worth of expert think-tank hours and rehearsed by months of ground training, -little things like asking: "Who are you?" "How did you get on board?" "Pardon me while I check in with ground control before I give you admittance to the cabin. Sorry. We might have to wait a day or two." And certainly, they don't engage in infantile attempts to keep secrets, tamper with official mission records and pretend everything is normal when clearly there is an interesting phenomenon at work. If you suspect your psychological hygiene is compromised, you bloody-well report it ASAP. People who are inclined to act like secretive, startled 8 year-olds rather than top-notch adult scientists don't make it past the pysch review board and get into space. It just doesn't happen. 2. A light fixture which gives off enough waste heat energy to burn your hand? On a spaceship? In the *future* when we already have efficient cold lighting solutions today? Really? How can a writer who allows little things like that to pass be expected to make good calls on things which are actually complicated? 3. A crew of one? There are reasons that is unlikely. Another poster pointed out that redundancy is important in space. 4. They let her back into the populace without first passing a thorough and supervised medical exam? That's actually insane. 5. Finding funding for the development of scary good AI through unconventional techniques is hard? Because of moral issues among investors? Because the public sector might be freaked out? Sheesh. They should get in touch with those psychopathic black budget guys; you know; the ones with all the $$$ and above-the-law impunity, (who probably strong-armed their way into your project before it was even conceived)? Heck, I find it implausible that there wouldn't be a dozen or more compartmentalized projects trying to achieve the same thing through a variety of different methods with any number of creepy alphabet soup agencies. Like most sci-fi, this story takes place in a universe imagined through the lens of naive writers who haven't figured out that the world is a great deal more interesting and complex than the average two-dimensional Utopian day dream populated by two-dimensional child-people incapable of recognizing objective reality even when it pokes them in the eye. So. . , sorry. I'm not altogether enthusiastic about tuning in to see how it all turns out; whatever solutions, twists and turns the plot offers will assuredly be the product of ignorance, inexperience and immature thinking.
