User blog comment:Legionwrex/These conversations between NPCs are annoying./@comment-1388547-20120808125004

I found them vaguely interesting as flavor for the game. As for war assets, there are a few conversations that you have to hear all the way through before they yield something you can act on at the Spectre Terminal, but I don't think any of those are useful. (The only ones I can think of are the Alliance lady who doesn't want to fight Cerberus because her brother joined them, and the traumatized asari soldier in the hospital. Both of those *reduce* your military strength of you try to help them.)  For the ones that yield missions, you get the mission the first time you listen in.