The captain's blog lies entirely outside the responsibility of the production team. It's not led or even vaguely guided by anyone involved in the actual making of the show" "It's the fact that it's not even vaguely guided by the production that bugs me" as though that was an on-the-record fact

Sorry for butting in...

Keep in mind that at the time, writers and producers at the Rift had all just denied any knowledge of the Captain's Blogs, and one of the writers went so far as to posit that a BBCA intern or researcher wrote them.

Granted, taking anyone affiliated with RTD at their word is dangerous *g* but at the time that was the word from on high.