I'm not a huge Star Trek guy (although I did watch the entirety of TOS in reruns as a kid, several times over... strong memories there, let's call it an emotional blueprint), but here goes...
TOS
Strange New Worlds (recently saw some of this... very impressed!)
TNG
Picard
Discovery (saw the...
I was also a broke kid... I did spend some of the hoard I'd amassed from paper routes and other odd jobs on this (and the Lankhmar set!). I got hooked on the novels in the mid-80s so jumped on this when I found it.
Err... what? How is that a counterargument? But points for using the word 'coxswain' in a sentence.
Let me take this from the top. You started by doing that thing that polite folks should never do: be a grammar policeman. You then compounded your offence by committing the cardinal sin of...
'The English language disagrees with you.' is what one might call a metaphor for 'English speakers accepted use of the English language disagrees with you'. Which is a bit different from me disagreeing with you right?
The English language disagrees with you. It's perfectly acceptable to use 'implies' metaphorically. Consider the following sentences: "Her frown implied her disapproval." "Your utterance of that 'nugget of knowledge' implies that its source is flawed".
Question for any Canadians on the thread: I'm noticing that a lot of US posters seem to have their fingers on the pulse of/visit at a high frequency fast food joints. I almost never go into them... the few times I did over the last 15 years or so was a couple of times a year because the kids...
I'm not disagreeing with you! I'm just saying given the constraints of the choices in the OP list, homestyle is the round hole that this particular square peg best fits...
Parboiling (5 or 6 minutes, tops... pat dry afterwards!) French fries or home fries before either frying or baking is a must in my book. Crispier exterior, softer/fluffier middle.