The protoss should never have trusted QoB

In case you aren't familiar with the plot of the protoss campaign in Brood War, here is a script commentary.

While the protoss are evacuating to Shakuras and repelling the zerg that somehow arrived before they did (I can't even pretend this timeline makes sense), QoB appears (having somehow traveled there from Char just in the nick of time like a character in the later crappier seasons of Game of Thrones) and explains that she is free of zerg control and she can offer the protoss assistance. This is very obviously a ploy that no sane military commander would take remotely seriously. It's the middle of the apocalypse and suddenly a known enemy agent appears claiming to have the solution to their problems? This is just painfully transparent.

All of the protoss hold the idiot ball and take her claims at face value, while only Aldaris points out that they have absolutely no reason to trust her and every reason not to. Naturally, nobody listens to him because, as if it wasn't obvious, QoB is a villain sue. 

Let's pretend for a moment that the protoss didn't have their intelligence sapped by Kerry Sue's aura of smooth. I would have expected them to at minimum imprison and interrogate her with their psychic powers to verify she is telling the truth, which we know they have in spades. Furthermore, I would also expect them to try something like anti-zerg nanites (like they would do for Stukov) for good measure.

It's implied that Matriarch Raz was already compromised by QoB taking advantage of her senility to brainwash her, but this makes no sense because QoB couldn't have brainwashed the matriarch before they met and they never spent any time together. (Seriously, what idiots would QoB to be alone with their leaders?) Again, this timeline makes no sense.

But the protoss take zero precautions, and as you would expect QoB eventually betrays them by publicly murdering Aldaris. Why does she do this? Because he was about to reveal that she was manipulating them all along (which is obvious to anyone with eyes and half-a-brain) and compromised the matriarch (which he can't know beyond guessing unless he witnessed it offscreen... jfc this writing is bad). But killing him serves no purpose and reveals to the protoss beyond a doubt that they can't trust her (because apparently her previous transparent ploys weren’t obvious enough to these morons). Why not just deny the accusations? The protoss didn't listen to him before, so why would these morons listen now? In fact, given how stupid they acted already, why do they think her murdering him constitutes a betrayal at all? It would make as much sense, perhaps more, if they thanked her for killing that traitorous Aldaris!

But I digress.

To add insult to injury they let her go free after murdering him in public because otherwise it would break the plot if they imprisoned her for murder like sane people would. The writer wants QoB to manipulate everyone so she can take over the zerg and decimate the sector, but the writer clearly can't get to that point in a way that involves the cast making reasonable decisions thus the cast act like idiots to push her subplot forward. (And the logistics behave impossibly conveniently, again like the later seasons of GOT where characters teleported across Westeros.) It is incredibly frustrating to watch.

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