Lucky could be Paris, but that would make Luanne B'Elanna and I don't think that part works.

I still think each Combs in the picture should be a different character. Unless each one is a different Weyoun, in which case they already are.

More or less. If you're paying attention to what's going on around you you'll notice other traffic stop before your light turns green. There's also typically a second or two where all lights are red before one turns green to make sure the intersection is clear.

I don't think the Romulans are really any better, they just solved the problem with external control rather than internal control, that external control being an inescapable police state.

T'Lyn is one of the most rational and logical Vulcans in the franchise and she was booted from the Vulcan fleet for not fitting into their strict dogma.

I'd argue she was actually more logical and rational than her former shipmates despite being more emotional. Everything she said in her first episode was completely right, even though it often violated protocol. Logically, either the protocol should be reexamined or T'Lyn should be given more leeway during her off hours. Punishing T'Lyn rather than working out something that would be beneficial to everyone was illogical and irrational. To me, it highlighted the big flaw of Vulcan culture - that their dogmatic and unquestioning adherence to Surak's teachings is, paradoxically, illogical. Spock eventually understood this, as his line, "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end," demonstrates. That T'Lyn quoted that line would indicate that she has been studying Spock and is likely following a philosophy similar to the one he arrived at in his old age. Logic is a tool, a means to an end, but it is not the end itself. Those who fixate on being logical as an end unto itself ultimately have no goal and are often unable to see the forest for the trees.

"And this is Kid Cudi, who's not really a historical figure."

"Kinda am now, I think."

I thought the intro was perfectly suited to a pre-Federation humanity taking its first steps amongst the stars after pulling itself back together from WW3. Right up until they retooled the song to be peppier while also making the show darker.

Dramatization of encounter between OP and therapist: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHgbbM9pu4

Humans being the new kids on the block with inferior technology is a pretty common thing. Babylon 5 had humans buy, trade, and negotiate for most of their tech and are barely more advanced than the average small independent world at the start of the show. Farscape had Earth as a backwater, uncontacted, pre-interstellar world and made humans unusually frail with poor eyesight compared to the other species. Even in Trek, humans are physiologically inferior to most everyone and ENT depicted our tech as being far behind everyone else.

The real advantage humanity is consistently depicted as having, regardless of setting, franchise, or even sci-fi vs fantasy, is that we develop new technology faster than just about anyone else. In sci-fi settings, we'll go from barely getting to Mars to colonizing the entire Orion Arm in a couple decades. In fantasy settings, we'll be first to develop firearms and rudimentary industrialization.

I actually love Beyond. It's one of my favorite Trek movies.

Probably the whole 'linked ships taken over by the badguys' thing. It happened in Lower Decks, too.