How can such an advanced human race, and a superior intellect android, make such ridiculously terrible decisions with a shipload of lives in the balance? Every part of this episode is riddled with idiotic decisions made with absolutely no regard for protocol or safety. It's as though they started with the outcome and then wrote the episode in order to arrive at that outcome, regardless of the quantity of bad choices necessary to do so. I guess Starfleet is actually even more stupid than humans currently are. I'm sure the fanboys love this episode, but I doubt if any of them realize what it really represents.
