The show conducted character assassination on Ser Alliser Thorne by making him part of (and the leader of) the assassination gang.

"one of Dan's more annoying traits is how wrongly-convinced he is of the profundity of everything that comes out of his mouth."

And Dan makes Cliff Clavin look like Sam Malone

He's a mailman. Nuff said.

I suppose they could handle the turnaround by having everyone rig the ship for the maneuver, then go to sleep. Reverse the star field, wake everyone one up, and voila, they can hit the beach again.

Gun control works, apparently.

The really best part was a Kay Jewelry commercial in the first aired episode with a tie-in to a couple we had just seen was in a political marriage and each was having an affair (or multiple ones)

It's probably already been said, but gravity is the easiest thing to explain. The ship is constantly accelerating at 1 g.

That's an excellent observation. It's also one of the few scenes that looks like it was actually filmed in DC. (near the Thompson boat center)

The tiny plot hole I'm annoyed with (that I haven't seen elsewhere), is that Stan gets word that some 16 year old that he's been tangently investigating has gone missing, but no word that the federal contractor that he's been directly investigating has been shot and killed - after being in an off limits area.

And meet him for the first time at the Ritz hotel.