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** Packer and Dudani are the ones who usually avoid the brunt of Daly's rage, possibly because they, out of all of Daly's coworkers, are the ones who got under his skin the least. In Walton's case, Daly treated him as the ButtMonkey because of their closer working relationship, and in Nanette, Lowry and Elena's cases, [[NoLoveForTheWicked they all upset Daly's hangups about women in general.]] Packer and Dudani, in contrast, are perfectly amicable towards Daly in real life, [[TheAllegedBoss even if they don't treat him like a boss (which he doesn't really act like, anyways).]] While he certainly isn't ''nice'' to either, he doesn't seem to target them ''specifically'' when he's angry.

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** * Packer and Dudani are the ones who usually avoid the brunt of Daly's rage, possibly because they, out of all of Daly's coworkers, are the ones who got under his skin the least. In Walton's case, Daly treated him as the ButtMonkey because of their closer working relationship, and in Nanette, Lowry and Elena's cases, [[NoLoveForTheWicked they all upset Daly's hangups about women in general.]] Packer and Dudani, in contrast, are perfectly amicable towards Daly in real life, [[TheAllegedBoss even if they don't treat him like a boss (which he doesn't really act like, anyways).]] While he certainly isn't ''nice'' to either, he doesn't seem to target them ''specifically'' when he's angry.
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* All of the roles that Daly forces onto the digital clones are either inversions of how they typically act towards him in their day to day life:

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* All of the roles that Daly forces onto the digital clones are either inversions perversions of how they typically act towards him in their day to day life:

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* All of the roles that Daly forces onto the digital clones are either inversions of how they typically act towards him in their day to day life:
** Nanette is an eager, intelligent newbie whose full of determination and clearly has a lot to say, and despite Daly's crush on her, he forces clone-Nanette to be a stereotypically demure, klutzy DamselInDistress.
** Walton's is quite obvious; he is Daly's ultra-confident and charismatic co-founder who can push him around occasionally, but is a cowardly wimp who defers to him on the fleet.
** Lowry is an outspoken, confident woman who [[SirSwearsALot swears like a sailor,]] yet Daly forces her to be a YesMan who faints in his arms, and intentionally keeps the world sexless and squeaky-clean in terms of adult activity.
** Elena is an AmbiguouslyGay immigrant woman who is notably cold and distant to her coworkers, but is forced to swoon over Daly at his command and is clearly designed to have blue skin for the purpose of Daly's g-rated titilation at her "exoticness".
** Packer and Dudani are Daly's underlings who don't really take him too seriously despite being perfectly friendly otherwise, and as a result, both of them serve the roles of "running" the ship and ''always'' defer to his word, despite that they are supposed to be computer experts.
** Packer and Dudani are the ones who usually avoid the brunt of Daly's rage, possibly because they, out of all of Daly's coworkers, are the ones who got under his skin the least. In Walton's case, Daly treated him as the ButtMonkey because of their closer working relationship, and in Nanette, Lowry and Elena's cases, [[NoLoveForTheWicked they all upset Daly's hangups about women in general.]] Packer and Dudani, in contrast, are perfectly amicable towards Daly in real life, [[TheAllegedBoss even if they don't treat him like a boss (which he doesn't really act like, anyways).]] While he certainly isn't ''nice'' to either, he doesn't seem to target them ''specifically'' when he's angry.
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* The crew of the USS Callister [[spoiler:getting new uniforms that resemble more modern uniforms]] could be a sign of [[spoiler:how their adventures are moving past the campy antics of the original mod, or even possibly them being ''rebooted'', mirroring the reboot films establishing that they took place in a universe that overwrote the original's via a space phenomenon.]]

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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything -- none of which applies to Daly. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.

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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, admired, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything -- none of which applies to Daly. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.


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** Also, the point is to make it harder for him to do so. It's still going to take time and effort for him to recollect samples of DNA of the people he wants to torment. It's not perfect, perhaps, but they also have limited control over this situation and it's the best they can manage.
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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.

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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything.everything -- none of which applies to Daly. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.
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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''Series/StarTrek'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.

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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''Series/StarTrek'', ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.
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* ''Space Fleet'' is a pretty clear {{Expy}} to the original ''Series/StarTrek'', and presumably Daly is putting himself in the place of an actual character who is an expy of Captain Kirk. But if we consider it closer, while Captain Kirk is the cocky, heroic alpha-male Daly clearly wishes he could be in real life, he is also respectful and caring towards his subordinates, forms a close team with his second-in-command and the ship's doctor to the point that they're an iconic example of the FreudianTrio, is aware of and takes seriously TheChainsOfCommanding, and clearly values cooperation and teamwork rather than solely making himself the Gary Stu hero who fixes everything. Assuming the {{Expy}} Kirk is anyway similar to the actual Kirk, and given the episode's overall satire of toxic fandom, Daly is almost certainly DramaticallyMissingThePoint of his favorite show by focussing on the surface-level heroics and ignoring the deeper underlying values.

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