Hefner was a gross sex creep but he was actually fairly progressive on LGBT stuff. He hired a lot of gay writers during a time when being openly gay got you blacklisted.

I will never be as cool as teenaged Chinese communist rock guitarist guy. Nobody ever will.

Uh, if I remember the episode they’re referring to correctly it’s just the space around this one planet that effected by FTL travel so the speed limit it only enforced there.