It's simple. Humor needs at least a bit of Truth for the irony to kick off the laugh mechanism in the brains.
Barr is a "side show" playing both sides in a perpetual game of "which side is he siding with today". In other words, he's 100% politics, now. Best not to even pay him any attention.
Inspiring greatness is a matter of believing in it, and then applying energy towards manifesting it. Losers can't conceptualize that, but when we speak of the losers and haters, we always do so with love and affection.
The ending fight scene was good.
>is it still the same ship?
Yes because you aren't replacing the idea behind how the ship functions. Just the hardware that makes the idea a physical reality. Now if you are making other changes/improvements, you could say it's a new ship based on an older idea. But one for one hardware changes don't make it a different ship because the idea of the original remains intact.