Seeker,
I notice that the weird octopus alien with the single glowing eye and extremely corrosive GI tract was dispatched with an ax in the end.
On different show, I would have expected a thoughtful and stoic individual to mind meld with the alien such that it gleaned enough understanding to use its corrosive digestive enzymes to etch a cryptic three-letter message — NO FART I — into the floor of the ship.
Whether the message meant that the weird octopus alien with the single glowing eye and extremely corrosive GI tract would not fart after eating someone or whether it was hoping that Prof. Victor Bergman wouldn't fart in its presence after eating a couple of burritos remains unknown. But that message would have caused the crew to reassess whether the weird octopus alien with the single glowing eye and extremely corrosive GI tract was a vicious killer or just another misunderstood alien trying to protect itself.
Sadly, we'll never know because it's dead, Jim.
Joe