Pleasantly surprised, especially since it’s coming out after the disappointing third season of SNW and set in the far future time period from Discovery.
It feels like a live action Prodigy, which should be taken as a compliment. The captain is that mix of chaos and principle that makes the best Starfleet officers, and the kids are a fun bunch. The in-universe context is a Starfleet in the process of recovering from a time of Adults In The Room and Hard Choices, which is portrayed as having been very bad and not cool.
Also the ship/school is pretty.
It’s not great and everyone is way meaner than they have to be, but I hope they’re building up to a statement on the kind of societal rot they’re depicting.
Also I like Sam. If anything happens to her, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself.