I think lighting is a lot of this, but I also think that the facial performer may dictate this a littler too, they may have lost the performer between eps and tweaked the model to the replacements to make mapping motions easier.

apple crunch “Tastes pretty good for shit.”

Mon Papitain

Admiral “Guy who has a membership at a Japanese Whiskey Bar where you own your own bottle”

Someone watching along with The Greatest Generation?

As I am not American I grew up with socialism being a positive connotation in day to day culture, so much so it’s wild to me that this needed to be veiled in Trek’s past. Star Trek should be as explicit as possible with this. “Hey, you want Utopia? This is how you earn it!”