Spock has occasionally made jokes, and at least in the presence of a certain Richard Milhous Nixon, is a smoker.
My high school history teacher had that as a poster on her wall.
I've had a very good experience with a similarly-speced AMD E16 gen 1.
The only issue I'd warn you about is the Wi-Fi modem might be a Realtek on some models. Mine came with one, and while on recent kernels, it mostly worked well out of the box, it had one issue: something went weird with ACPI when I switched between certain networks, which caused the card to crash and completely disconnect to the system unless I rebooted. I was able to find a fix by changing some options with modprobe.d, which I detail here: https://startrek.website/post/14342770 . Since that, it's been an extremely smooth experience.
It depends. Prodigy, Lower Decks, and Strange New Worlds are all great (the former two take a moment to get into their element, though).
Probably watch 10 episodes of Prodigy before making your verdict, and probably through the first few episodes of season 2 for Lower Decks.
For Discovery, I've found it make many mistakes, but also been, it's been fun at times. I've only watched through part of season 4.