Nice touch with the black hole and its accretion disk, I do like scientific realism mixed in with my SciFi.
::sigh:: Some things never change... the woman cops the blame for the men behaving badly trying to get her attention. I bet the commander is going to end up disciplining her.
Wait. It's not a reprimand, but she then gets all accusatory? Sounds like the Commander isn't a very good leader at this point... Unless she's going to just turn the Morale Officer loose on the saboteurs.