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***Aviators sent on GI missions?! Ain't happenin'*** Sort of like the captain of a Starship beaming down onto every strange hostile world he comes across to do single combat with space lizards every week?

It is fiction. I think the future universe that the show presented was very plausable. Huge multinational defense contractors with less than pure motives, Soldiers who fought for a world that treated them as less than human, story lines that incorporated legends from wars as far back as the ancient Greeks. The show had excellent writing and character development.

Well Enterprise isn't a halmark of military intelligence either, but at least they've never discussed it in the series. That's what really killed me with SAAB, they then discussed it and came up with their lousy excuse (which was basically Marines do what they're told, which is true but Marine Commanders don't put obscenely expensive troops in situation where they can die cheap). And remember, Kirk's didn't go down to fight the Gorn voluntarily he got spacenapped (same with Gamesters of Tryscelion, one of my faves).

It was fiction, but SAAB had certain serious problems: the characters were boring, they were consistently portrayed to be fighting a losing battle so the "wins" in every episode didn't matter, the whole "tank bigotry" sub-plot had as much preachie-PC crap as anything in recent Trek, plots that seemed to be primarily taken from Viet Nam movies. The show stank on ice. It did look good though, I really liked the look and feel, but once they killed of R Lee's character nobody in the show said anything worth hearing.