I believe she was carrying a scythe not a scimitar.  

So did Beta see a cat and know to go to the hospital? Was it some kind of well-known cat hang out amongst whispers and Alexandria?

Having driven through a few poor white neighborhoods in the Midwest I could say the same thing. 

“I don’t remember this much bitching when Klingons suddenly got forehead ridges for the first movie.” Where would you have seen it? The Starlog letters page 3 months after ST:TMP came out? ;-)