Azathoth

And that one looks like our town founder, Jebidiah Springfield. Without the head of course.

Homer the Smithers when Smithers is looking up keywords to find his replacement (monstrously ugly)?

Your clues were very helpful in this case. Plus I must've heard that song hundreds of times.

Looks like Faith of the Heart to me.

"Controversial," in this case, is a euphemism for terrible.

I quite like StarSector too. It clearly owes a lot to the Escape Velocity series which I love.

StarSector's focus on colony management is super fun though. The recent patch was also quite good and seemed to add more story elements which I appreciate. I appreciate the unique looking ships even though some of them end up looking very ugly.

I love working with the AIs. Smuggling them, integrating them into colonies, doing other spoilery things with them. I wish there were deeper mechanics there and more story too, but that could still happen.

I go back to Super Metroid about once a year. I just get a yearning to hear the moody music and see the alien scenery.

Fairly sure that part is from Schisms where Riker and other crew members are being abducted while they sleep by aliens. At this point he knows he’s going to be abducted and has taken some stimulants to stay awake so he decided to get abducted in his uniform rather than his sleeping clothes.