The second time Gideon's solution was to fake someone's death; it's a good idea, but gets repetitive. My other nitpick for an episode which I otherwise enjoyed isn't really a nitpick but a statement/observation: JMS is in a catch/22 with the B5 verse as he left it versus his desire to tell upstanding rebellious hero versus The Man stories. Because as President of the Alliance, Sheridan is THE MAN now. Now he doesn't want his new hero rebell against his old one. So we get a few EarthGov generals as default bad guys. But if EarthGov is able to do sinister conspiracies and cover-ups beneath Sheridan's nose while Earth is still a member of the Alliance, we end up with the same impression you get when watching s5 of B5: Sheridan's isn't that good or effective a president.

Back to Crusade. The Max subplot comes across as if it was added at the last minute upon discovering the episode runs a few minutes short on time, but never mind, I enjoy seeing my favourite Crusade character on screen, and the fact that he's a Company Man and thus bound to come into conflict with either the Excalibur crew or the company is one of the things that makes Max interesting. Considering the scenes he has with Sarah Chambers in later episodes, I think that would have been an odd couple (not in the romantic sense!) type of friendship between idealist and pragmatist which starts here when she chews him out.

Veterans: does this remind anyone else of that old TNG episode when they were obvious Vietnam soldier allegories?