@ramsey I quite like it. Like much of newer Trek offerings other than Picard or LD, it is more TOS than TNG: the setting is more chaotic, but allows the stories to lean toward highlighting that hopeful, rational, diverse, metaphor feel.

There's a split between faculty and students: the faculty have "Star Trek ethos" and the students are stumbling (a la Picard getting stabbed in a bar fight).

The first two eps were not enthralling science fiction, more political/plot/social to build setting.