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**** That is pretty much the idea of any second-in-command position in any kind of field; they're there to take over if for whatever reason the person above them isn't there to preform those duties.
**** Riker has a lot of day-to-day duties, but they're just usually not highlighted because they're boring. Essentially clerical stuff. It's stuff that the Enterprise can function for a few days without, but not a month... but then the aliens only needed the ship for a day or two.
***** In real-world military units the primary day-to-day function of a ship's XO is administration, so you're entirely correct here.
** As for why he needed the Enterprise, maybe his race had powerful mind technologies, but not a lot of resources (so could only mind control a few enemies) and basically nothing in the way of conventional weapons to match their enemies.
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