She did overcome her android prejudice, she also apologized to Data and they were even friends by the time season 3 rolls around

Except she did. She even apologized to Data

Bester was one of the best things about B5

And the DMA aliens

Grizzlies are infamous for not waiting til you’re dead to start eating.

As time has gone on I’ve come to the conclusion Discovery started as the pilot of another show they stretched a Star Trek skin onto

Pretty much, the Ship’s main computer doesn’t even have the ability to learn user preferences.

Star Trek tries to avoid using fully sapient AI, in fact it’s illegal for fully integrated ship components to be sapient in Starfleet ships. It’s why the ships computer can solve nearly any problem you give it, but it can’t give you anything unless you ask the correct question.

Which one? Spot is played by a different cat every episode

Apparently they didn’t, the man canonical continues working after they rescue him

That happens the first time you use a transporter. Those things kill you and print a copy elsewhere that thinks it’s you

Lower Decks is nothing but references, all the really weird aliens you see are generally Animated Series aliens, like the triarmed guy running the ship to The Farm or the lady with three segments that can float free of each other

I always felt like they stretched a Star Trek skin over another IPs pilot in season 1

I just assumed it took Mezoamerican influences back and added peppers, Klingons like food that fights back

There is the problem of where does religion and culture separate? Especially for a spiritual people like the Bajorans do we ever really see one post occupation without the ear thing?

Ahh yes, the Monkeigh defense. I always knew the Ferengi were really space elves!

Understanding a customer as famously wily as the Federation through language would be a business advantage. We know this because it works today.

Overblown mostly.

No. Society just changes faster than it ever has. Some keep up, others don’t, think of it as a warning showing what happens if you let fear win

That’s a pretty solid tag line at the end there, but why are you sending the lazy to Wyoming?