Brainstorming an ASL Story: "The Ark" - Part 2

To further help me brainstorm "The Ark," I began building a list of all the expectations I thought a reader of the story might have.  I tried to think about the basic story concept and imagine what it might have been like if this were an episode of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, or any number of other science fiction universes.  Every expectation or assumption I could image appears on the list below:

• Garrick wants to be captain and gets off on it to a degree like Kirk did.
• Alliance crew to just step up anytime the captain asks and lay down their lives for the Alliance.
• The Alliance will win in the end.
• The Prospect will survive.
• Captain Garrick will live.
• The officers in the boarding party will survive, but the red shirts will die.
• The Melkons will have a tragic flaw.
• The Melkons aren't invincible.
• The captain will do the right thing, the ethical thing.
• The Alliance crew wouldn't loot the Melkon weapons and tech.
• The Alliance tech is better than the Melkon tech.
• If the Melkon tech is better, the Alliance folks are smarter or faster.
• The Alliance crew are the good guys.
• The Melkons are inherently bad.
• There will be a happy ending.
• There will be a win win solution found.
• Captain Garrick won't commit genocide and kill all the Melkons.
• The crew will learn to take risks.
• The captain will decide not to resign.
• It's not a Kobayashi Maru test.
• It's not virtual reality.
• It's not a reality show.
• The Prospect crew and tech always work perfectly.
• The Prospect won't be severely damaged our crippled.
• The Prospect has all the supplies and repair parts it needs.
• The crew will figure out the Melkon language and devices.
• The Melkons will mostly stay in hibernation.
• If taken down, Slave won't reboot or recover.
• The Melkons will just accept their situation when they lose.
• The Melkons are trustworthy and will honor their word.
• The Alliance is honorable and will honor its word.
• Aliens in general treat the Alliance with respect and trust like the Federation in Star Trek.
• Humans will bicker, back stab, and undermine each other.
• The humans will have the moral high ground here.
• The Melkons won't slaughter the Prospect's crew.
• The humans and Melkons will be able to communicate and negotiate.
• At some point the fighting will stop.
• The ships won't crumble, develop failures, etc.
• The Alliance ship is faster and better than the Melkons Ark.
• The name Melkon is enough like Archon that we'll see a parallel to the Star Trek story of that name.
• The captain will be the one with the final solution that saves the day.
• Slave's attack on the Prospect computers won't succeed or if it does the Alliance will be able to recover from it.
• The main characters won't be seriously injured, especially those closer to the captain.
• The Alliance universe won't be changed by the event, this will all be episodic.
• The Alliance has unlimited ammo, medicine, food, and energy.
• The Melkons will run out of resources, before we do.
• There won't be any human traitors.
• Given the parallels to the Khan story they may expect Garrick to maroon the Melkons on some planet.
• There won't be any mystical or spiritual elements to the universe.
• Nothing supernatural takes place unless it's explained by science.
• Because they are reptilian, the Melkons will behave like reptiles and have qualities of earth reptiles.
• Melkons behave essentially like humans, have a human like society, care about their children, fall in love, etc.
• Humans in this universe act like we do.  They have emotions, loves, hates, fears, etc.
• The human good guys will win.
• Technologies that look like sci-fi tech we've seen before will behave and be used the same way.
• Humans would not employ underhanded tactics against the aliens.
• The crew will follow the captain's orders.
• The Melkons follow their leaders' orders and respect their decisions, behaving like a human society.

As the author of the story, it's my job to decide which of these expectations and assumptions will be true in the Alliance universe, and which will not.  You'll have to wait for The Ark to find out.