And even it's nakedly racist ("A contract, is a contract, is a contract-- but only between Ferengi") and misogynistic ("Females and finances don't mix.")

What does that say about capitalism?

Perhaps it implied that.

But it only ever implied that, and meanwhile we had other evidence that implied a separate conclusion, in the form of Kor, Kang, and Koloth.

Which is more likely-- that every Klingon Kirk encountered during his five-year mission was a survivor of the augment virus (edit: Including Kahless, who lived and died centuries before Archer!) and no Klingon encountered outside of that time period was; or that the Klingons ruthlessly quarantined or even executed carriers of the augment virus and wiped it out before it got too far, and TOS's visuals aren't literal?

How do you square this with the Q apparently being quite mortal after all?

And all because some poor schmuck at an early radio lab had a candy bar in their pocket that got melted.

I would like to point out that Denobulans have appeared a few times on Lower Decks as well.

"Let's do it."

If I recall correctly usually streaming services outside the US get the new episode the day after it airs, so try tomorrow.

In essence, Discovery followed the same arc as the Star Wars sequel trilogy. They swung for the fences on doing something wild and asking difficult questions that the franchise had taken for granted; and even if the answer they arrived at was affirming, there were too many loud nerds that couldn't look past either the flaws that genuinely existed or their own shallow prejudices. Those nerds were loud enough and long enough that the studio walked it back to try to appease them and ended up with something much less interesting, which both alienated defenders of the early direction and could never appease the bad eggs whose criticisms weren't in good faith, leaving something that only a few appreciated.

It even looked like the adrenaline Bruce uses in the climax of The Batman when he's fighting that sniper.

That would be rad. I felt like she got a little more screen time towards the end of season 1 as well. Maybe they just like working with her.

"Empire" generally implies "imperialism" which generally implies a racial hierarchy. Or at least that's one argument.

Spock is visibly affected by bloodwine and gets a hangover, although he states in TOS: “The Conscience of the King” that “My father’s race was spared the dubious effects of alcohol.”

Personally I always took that not as "Vulcans aren't affected by alcohol", but "Vulcans historically have no culture of drinking."