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.
So Star Trek without stars and without treks? That seems a rather flawed concept.
So far as I understand it. But by the time Starfleet Academy starts, they’re Trekking those Stars again. The school is a ship.