takelgryph

Regarding the humanocentrism, there was one possible explanation I hit on while playing Star Trek Online and noticing the availability of species-specific ships (such as the Atrox carrier and the Andorian escorts) -- basically, most member worlds maintain their own independent fleets, but Earth doesn't. The human prominence in Starfleet is an artifact of that -- there's no official Earth Expeditionary Fleet, so the people who might join it apply to Starfleet instead.

I've said before that doctors are the engineers of the human body, and Ben Carson is my go-to example of what that means.

The problem with pissing on Margaret Thatcher's grave is that eventually you run out of piss.