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 Well, it's over. What a finale! I'll lodge my complaints first. Discovery  was far too short, and even so it's likely to end up with the most episodes of any of the current series. This is one of the reasons that this streaming era really sucks. There was no good reason that Discovery and Lower Decks couldn't have gotten seven seasons apiece. I don't think we needed that tie-in to "Calypso", especially since it raises more questions than it answers ( why did they change the ship back to the original look? Why is Craft so important? Why is it worth leaving Zora all alone for 1,000 years?). It might have nice to see that story in Season 6, as the writers were apparently planning before it got canceled, but I would have preferred to spend the short time allotted wrapping up the other characters' stories. Something more than imaginary laughs and hugs. I would've liked to see Burnham use some of the godly powers offered her, even just a little bit. Oh ...

 If you watch pretty much any Star Trek show or movie, you'll notice that the vast majority of every Starfleet crew we see is human despite these ships representing a multi-species Federation. Why is that? (I don't feel like doing a lot of research for this, so I'm mostly going to rely on my memory.) Of course, the real-world explanation is that it would cost a lot more money to get a ton of actors into alien makeup and prosthetics for every single episode (this is also why there are so many alien species that look exactly like humans, especially in TOS). In-universe, it's a bit trickier to explain. From what I recall, there have been two different canon explanations given: one is that Starfleet usually has single-species crews, another is that for whatever reason, humans are just more interested in joining Starfleet than other species. Of course, these two explanations don't have to be mutually exclusive. The first suggestion of species segregation in Starfleet com...