Something I'll point out is that the Federation (and by the Federation I mean the writers) seems to be incredibly inconsistent in its moral code when it comes to both artificial intelligence and to clones.

Well, lets be fair, Delenn. They could have also recruited crew from outside the ship. Loners and outcasts who see sailing across the whole galaxy as a grand adventure.

You can't just hand out a B like that and expect it to be indicative of quality. Season 4 of BSG was pure shit and the ending was so bad it retroactively made a lot of the series worse.

the explanation I remember for O'Brian is that while technically most
everyone outranks him, in practice he's actually one of the top people
on the station, and an officer actually trying to give him orders may
have to answer to Sisko for it, right?

Do you plan to just keep rolling through all of the Treks, Zach?

And that guy with a secret Romulan grandparent in that one episode about the evils of witch hunts.

This is true, but the back third of Season 2 more than makes up for it.

Wait, really?

You don't understand the people who hate Keiko?

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Some of them are definitely place names; we have the Ember Island Eel-hounds and the Ba Sing Se Badger-Moles.

I acknowledge the righteousness of your burn, sir. I know when I've been well-struck.

The Water Tribes and Aang were made White,

Definitely more than Zutara, and I say that as a hardcore Zutaran.

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Despite not being young, Lin is totally still a sexy badass.

Race is tricky in Avatar-land. I mean, everyone except water tribe people have always looked pretty white to me (Asami is super-pale, and she's just for starters) but there are no redheads or blondes, and most of the cultures are universally based on asian aesthetics and traditional Chinese/Japanese honor codes, so…

It depends on the terms of their deal with Sato, really.

Actually, thinking about it, there's no way that you could rig a championship pro-bending match without Bu Taka being in on it.

Entirely possible! Where precisely Hiroshi falls on the Captain of Industry/Robber Baron continuum has, as you say, yet to be determined, and your point about the massive power imbalance in the relationship is well taken. Although Korra balances things up some; Korra is the Avatar, and she's tight with two-fifths of…