This was written by someone with a fetish. Sure, duh I know. Midgets in comic-opera military uniforms, Erin Gray in that second season sailor-suit all of the female crewmembers wore - it's as plain as day.
I never watched this crap, so I went to her site and checked out her current headshots, and I'm glad I did. Now that I am past 50 and single, nothing comforts me more than a woman in her sixties that I would still like to nail.
I preferred the first season to the second by far. The first season was about swash buckling adventure while the second season was more of a rip off of star trek with a bird guy.
Indeed they are, they have the ability to "on-think" and "off-think" things. In the end they turn off some switch that saves the universe or some such bullshit.