Quote Originally Posted by dtilque View Post
Roy and Elan are going to be involved in the resolution of the mutiny sideplot. Not worthless at all.
The last mechane strip didn't even show Elan and Roy at all.

The strip before that they were trying to dissuade Belkar and telling them to be as useless as them, that's all.

The one before that, Roy was giving instructions that were clearly already the crew's plans, and thus was utterly useless. Elan just gets a short appearance at the end stating the obvious.

And even if they weren't being completely useless by being "involved in the resolution of the munity sideplot", that offers little in the terms of surviving the giant swarm and that they cannot provide any meaningful assistance to the split up party.