Given scene/plot descriptions from movies or TV shows, and given a specific question about the scene, summarize the question into a title

[EX Q]: In the pilot movie "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1973) which preceded the TV series, Steve Austin was a "civilian member" of NASA who had walked on the moon, which justified his role as a test pilot. It was only in the second TV movie, "Wine, Women, and War" that he was changed to have the rank of Colonel. I have not read the Martin Caidin novels, but evidently he held the military rank and background in those.  Is there any evidence in writings about the pilot regarding what scenarios would be possible in future TV movies, shows (if they were already pitching it as a series) if he didn't have the military background? It seems as though they deemed it important in the initial pilot movie that Steve Austin was well-known as an astronaut, but was the cultural backdrop of the end of the Vietnam war part of their initial decision to shed the military connection?
[EX A]: What plot points/cultural significance would making Steve Austin a civilian member of NASA have served?

[EX Q]: In Desperate Housewives season one Linette takes her son's ADHD medicine and becomes very energetic. It gives her the ability to stay awake for hours on end and still do a good job and still have a whole lot of nervous energy...  (According to the plot the medicine has the opposite effect on non-ADHD people to what it has on ADHD people.)  Is this at all realistic?
[EX A]: Realism of the effect of ADHD medicine in Desperate Housewives

[EX Q]: I understood the reason behind her wearing those bands around her neck and wrist, when the director of the mental hospital revealed she had scars in her wrists and neck. She used those bands to cover those scars. But I could not understand what could be the reason behind her wearing weird dresses all the time. We saw her wearing a particular type of dresses instead of wearing casual dresses to go to school. Besides that, she all the time wore that type of dresses. I think she wears the particular type of dress for a specific reason. What could that reason be?
[EX A]:
Is there any particular reason for Esther to wear the dress instead of casual dress?