On the end credits scene: It’s another timeline, because that’s how Westworld rolls.

In the prequel book, it is mentioned (suspiciously) that Georgiou is her ex husbands name that she kept.

Small spoiler on Culber’s death: Anyone interested should search around for the stories on it. Producers seem very sensitive to the idea of them fridging an LGBT character, and there are a lot of hints something more is afoot there, and that there will be a much longer arc. With the powers his boyfriend might have,…

Ugh. Every time I see this suggested, it’s ignoring that the Voyager finale/Nemesis basically wrote Star Trek into a corner, which is why writers are avoiding a sequel.

So the two biggest complaints I always see:

The more likely translation I’ve read elsewhere...

In the new EU books a bunch of officers point out just that: For the cost of a Death Star they could have built tons of Star Destroyers and completely conquered the galaxy.

In the books it’s mentioned that the New Republic, going out of their way to show they are not the Empire, intentionally scaled down their fleet dramatically from what it was at the end of ROTJ.

The Death Star wasn’t supposed to be a secret. It was a trap. The whole point of the thing was the Alliance was supposed to know about it and attack it.