I wasn’t able to replicate this, in safari highlighting a couple words or several hundred words both worked fine, the copy option was there and stayed there both times. I tried on a iPad mini and an iPhone SE
The Playapod website mentions a web player, does the web player happen to sync with your app on the phone? If so maybe you can extract it through the web player on a desktop.
Those are potential connections, outside will be how many you are actually connected to. The potential connections number also isn’t live so don’t take it as fact.
Yeah it’s pretty cool! Star Trek had been a bit of a directors boot camp for a while, I know several members from TNG, DS9, and Voyager went on into directing.