The chef might be best left to an NPC anyways unless someone has some awesome idea how to incorporate them into a relevant character.

I'll google about the vessel engine tomorrow, but if nobody else here is really interested in it then it will be on hold indefinitely.

I drew another race that I made up as I went and then added some slight information about them, but stopped because I'm going to bed soon and I might as well focus on other stuff before I do more about them. They're called the [url=http://andreemea.wikia.com/wiki/Reimear]Reimear[/url] and may end up being a good villain race for an episode or two. I'll probably give them something like the Vulcan nerve pinch.