I hate how for one cool idea they end up shitting the bed on nine other concepts. Such waste of potential, specially since they gone out of their way to keep cucking main pair from being together (with maybe clone Boimler and engineer Mariner possibly becoming an item off screen?).
They should had just given up on doing it as a comedy show and just do a space science adventure that happen to be presented in cartoon format, and they could/create actually interesting alien designs since they aren't limited by irl prosthetic budget.
One thing I really enjoyed was them taking a piss out of the nuTrek movies in the hologram episode.