And explains her knowledge of poetry, as even a Xelayan of modest intellect and education is still above most of the crew.

Douglas Adams gave us the Golgafrinchams, an advanced society that “solved” its overpopulation problem by dividing people into three groups: The leaders, planners, inventors and other “thinking” types; the farmers, workers, laborers, builders and other “doing” types; and the “useless third” of middle managers,…

First designed in 1927 according to their website, so 92 years or 705.333 barleycorn-months.

Shuttles with cloaking devices would have made any Starfleet officer pee like Bortus.

When two Moclans mate, as Bortus and Klyden have, wouldn’t it be natural (and efficient) for their Ja’loja cycles to align? Or does Klyden NOT have to pee once a year? Why would that be?

Just get Isaac an emotion chip and be done with it.

Point three would be very important if she later turns out to be a deep-cover Krill agent. Otherwise, you’re spot-on.

Just how many bars with alien bartenders does a medium-sized vessel need, anyway? Because Alara’s meetup with Dann was in an entirely different place than where Ed was drinking.

Wasn’t that a key plot element of “Star Trek: Discovery” last year?

As long as there’s NEVER a “Captain Mercer Day” on board, I’ll be happy.

Geordi and Data were very good together, most of the time. Same with Geordi and Worf. Looking at it now, it’s probably because LeVar Burton is such a relatable and generous actor, equally game for playing straight man or spouting technobabble with urgency.

Any attempt to make it comedic would only invite comparisons to the first Austin Powers movie. Instead Seth chose to make it, well, dignified. But now that highly-acidic urine’s been mentioned, I wonder if that huge chasm in solid rock was the result of countless Moclans peeing into it over the centuries.

“Taking out Harriet Jones” prematurely, in a fit of pique after she made a very good point about the Doctor not always being there to protect Earth, gave the Master as “Harold Saxon” his opening to take power. Would Thirteen have made that mistake? I don’t think so.

If anyone should have been kept in check by being spayed and/or neutered.....

To be fair, Rose Tyler WAS overshadowed by Jackie on more than one occasion, though not for an entire episode.

I was waiting for something like this:

Yaz should also have been the one to break into the neighbor’s apartment, since as a police officer she has the right to do a “health and welfare” check on someone who may be missing or dead.

Or any of the “questions” answered in “Solo.”

In 2004, the then-new TSA wasn’t that keen on profiling German nationals trying to LEAVE the country....

Oh yeah, Werner’s fear was 100% “as soon as I reconnect the wires, they’re gonna detonate, and they’ll tell my wife it was a tragic accident.”