I feel like I got deprived of a story. Or at the very least a setting. So Lord Commander was some jag-off who got bombarded with final energy and in a 15 year span became the ultimate ruler of the universe and no one questioned it. I mean, we started this, where, some scene obviously ripped from the first of the most recent Star Trek movie series where some loser Kirk-Gary hits on a female Star Force person and goes to jail for making a bit of a mess. So we got his story, but when did we get the universes? Was there ever any foreshadowing that some huge catastrophic, seemingly-allpowerful overlord was very rapidly accruing power for his own misguided reason? No, it was just dull times aboard the SS. Poor Life Choices (which were probably the most effective scenes of the series, though probably because there was nothing to contradict them yet). He discovers an "insert mascot here" and the situation is "escalating" because now people are after him, but do we have any sense of scope or is it just some magic secret macguffin that he has to protect? Slowly we get hints of a universe oppressed, but if anything all evidence points to a long-term, systemic oppression by a force of pure power that no one dares question anymore, from the Helper's resigned in-ties with Lord Commander to Avocado's unquestioning loyalty to him. Then suddenly it's oppression by this stupid little guy who got power tied to the origin story of Gary's dad just because they wanted to connect those two dots?
And no one else in the universe ever gets involved other than the 5 people who get tangled up in this in this little kid's self-absorbed space adventure and, oh right there's a resistance, let's throw them in at the very last moment but only because we need some good-guy corpses for the intro scenes we've been showing all season. Is it funny? No, it's not funny. It's lazy. You wrote this one episode at a time and it shows in a big way.