Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
You wouldn't have inexperienced personnel in that situation at all. The show even knew that, that's why they stuck in the older guys and promptly killed them off. The show would actually be better if they had competent characters (John Crichton from Farscape was neither young nor inexperienced, but he was clearly in over his head from the very beginning).
To be fair, you can't really know the show would be better off with competent characters at this point. They also didn't kill off all of the older characters. A good chunk of them were piloting F-302's against the motherships and were picked up by the Hammond.

The older scientist is the only character I like at all, even though he's portrayed as a manipulative twit (and, sorry, no one would accept his authority without confirmation), because he's the only one who is actually willing to make decisions and is the only one who knows what he's doing.
He's the only one who knows what he's doing because the pilot made it quite clear that he may have his own agenda there, and because he doesn't tell the others anything. And if you didn't notice, no one did accept his authority. None of the people there trust him and the only reason anyone listened to a word he said was because the lieutenant recognized that he's the smartest person there and knows the most about Ancient technology making him perhaps the only hope they have of getting home.