Is it like in the stories, relating to the lunar cycle? I wonder how exactly that would work, out here so far from Earth--it'd be an impossible distance, if not for warp travel. Or is it just a correlation that seems to fall along those times?

[He can accordingly drop it. It does sound like it'd be awful to think about.]

Just a little. Technically he's not humanoid at all, it's just a convenient shape for dealing with us...and he was born that way, however their reproductive system works.

[He doesn't want to think about Founder sex but now he is, GAH.]