YMMV / Stellar Firma

• Ensemble Dark Horse: I.M.O.G.E.N., for being a veritable fountain of quotable lines and memorable digs (mostly at Trexel).
  • Cardinal Fang.^note Cardinal Fang!
• Iron Woobie: David is mistreated by pretty much everyone around him, and constantly put into miserable situations for the simple reason of being a clone, but perseveres through all of it largely due to his own quick thinking. Seeing him finally get revenge on Trexel at the season one finale is hugely cathartic, especially after so many episodes of the latter being a Karma Houdini.
• Jerkass Woobie: Trexel is undeniably a massive dipshit, but has clearly been affected by a brutal childhood under emotionally distant Abusive Parents. It's clear he has no friends and acts pompous to cover it up. However, none of this excuses his terrible treatment of David and the innocent lives he's harmed through sheer neglect and apathy, and his complete lack of remorse for it.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • When the setting isn't being Played for Laughs, it tends to be this, as it's a blatant Dystopia run by a mysterious, all-powerful MegaCorp.
  • Clones are given pretty nightmarish treatments. They're considered subhuman and property by the Board, are made to be physically incapable of lying or criticizing their superiors, and are implied to be recycled into the same clone slurry that's provided for their sustenance. The only reason why our David isn't a passive Blank Slate is because the re-education happened to fail, and he's in constant danger of being recycled if the planets aren't up to par.
    • We get to hear what a clone being recycled sounds like in the exit interviews, and it's not pretty. What makes it worse is the clone's utter lack of reaction to being told he's going to die, to the point of calmly offering Trexel a demonstration. In the same episode we learn Trexel has gone through 762 clones in the past year, more than once a week.
  • Hartro being interrogated by a soft-spoken talk show host at gunpoint over what she would do for the Board and how far she'd be willing to go. Even the character who's highest in power out of anyone shown on-screen is at the Board's mercy, and constantly needs to fake enthusiasm in order to keep her job position and livelihood.

    Would you defy the Board?

• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The previous David clones, on account of not having any real personality or free will, give a much more stilted and emotionless performance than the David-7 we're used to. It becomes especially unnerving when one starts malfunctioning when presented with a Logic Bomb (being asked to say the flaws in Trexel's approach to planet designing while being programmed not to directly criticize the consultant), and another calmly states he knows he's going to be recycled asks Trexel whether or not he'd like a demonstration. It's unsettling how legitimately inhuman they are, next to our David.