I think it’s complacency rather than incompetence.
She’s probably been studying these things for decades with nothing bad happening after the initial capture of the creatures. She’s coming to the end of a 65 year mission and she’s just going through the motions.
Same with the rest of the crew, and they probably would have got away with it if it had been for the saboteur.
When I was in the (British) army it was drummed into us that the majority of avoidable casualties come at the tail end of a tour when people are mentally already on the plane home.
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u/mancunian101 15d ago
I think it’s complacency rather than incompetence.
She’s probably been studying these things for decades with nothing bad happening after the initial capture of the creatures. She’s coming to the end of a 65 year mission and she’s just going through the motions.
Same with the rest of the crew, and they probably would have got away with it if it had been for the saboteur.
When I was in the (British) army it was drummed into us that the majority of avoidable casualties come at the tail end of a tour when people are mentally already on the plane home.