Dan Olson has a pretty good video about that one time some geocentrics tricked a bunch of physicists and Kate Mulgrew into being in their lame documentary. m.youtube.com/watch?v=icwDF8wRgF4
The writers were lucky / clever that they had the musical episode to further the tension between Spock and Chapel. Only in show tunes does this much inner turmoil make sense for a three month work trip. To your home planet! Just take a couple shore leaves to visit and she’ll be back before you know it.
The subspace anomaly caused everyone to obey the rules of a quantum reality in which people followed the tropes of 20th century American musicals. It was observed on numerous occasions that people affected by this phenomenon would generally sing their true feelings to those around them.
Considering this, we can contemplate that high ranking members of the Klingon Imperial Fleet were more open to regular relations with Starfleet and the greater galactic society than previously assumed.
The captain of this cruiser laments that his only interaction with the Federation comes during times of conflict. As shown by Lieutenant Spock after the events of this subspace rift and the hostilities on Cajitar IV, complex diplomatic situations can be defused by respect for and participation in Klingon social activities.
Knowing this, we can assume that significant damage was done by the widespread adoption of the “Vulcan Hello” by one of the founding members of the Federation. Had the Vulcans been more forthcoming about the history of this first-strike doctrine, the Federation may have been able to avoid earlier conflicts with the Klingons by reaching out proactively to their neighbors and not only call them when they’ve got dramas.
Cathode Ray Dude did a video a while back about the real world equivalent of “Bypassing the relays!” and exploding bridge stations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4A Basically on military equipment like Navy ships, it can be important to be able to bypass circuit breakers and burn out motors if the difference is one last shot getting out.
“YouTuber talks at a camera for half an hour about something he found at the thrift store” is a well worn trope at this point, but CRD is a really good storyteller. It’s interesting to see out of all the technobabble and cliches on Star Trek, the exploding consoles and EPS relays are actually informed by writers who probably spent parts of their military careers toggling real world “battle shorts”.