A vanity project, surely. The terribly tedious Seth Macfarlane writes and casts himself as the Captain Kirk character - only the gag is that it's Kirk/Picard/Janeway's ex-partner that's the First Officer on a third-class starship crewed by a selection of completely predictable androids/aliens/adolescents. And that IS the only gag. Dreadful CGI, atrocious costume design, and laboured writing. If there was straight-to-DVD for TV, this would be it.If you enjoy this, you have brain damage.

Oh my god!I love sci-fi. I love good CGI in space, nice uniforms, beautifully designed star ships, any relation to star-trek and similar. There's not much you can do to ruin my day when it comes to sci-fi series in space. But they did it! This show is soooo boring, I couldn't bear myself to watch the full episode. From the first minute they try to tell the whole story and all the stories behind it about every character in 10 seconds. Not all jokes are terrible, but they totally ruin it by over explaining them. For what generation of morons is this show intended for? Plus, first show has (spoiler alert) at least 10 minutes of dialog where ex-wife apologises to her ex-husband for cheating on him?! By watching show's like this you are actually encouraging guys at Hollywood to keep producing rubbish. Firefly is still the best show ever made and they cancelled it after one season?!?

Alright I am the first to watch some of the newer darker Science Fiction, like Westworld, Legion, Orphan Black, Firefly and others, that I also get a little burnt out with all the gross negativity at times, and I've been hoping to also see some more balance in this. Part of the pleasure of the first Star Trek, STNG, DS9 and Voyager were that you were watching honorable people trying to deal w/ difficult situations. This show has recaptured this. The characters are likable and intelligent. They have positive attitudes and they try to solve problems in intelligent ways. The show is pure relief. I've really like most of the episodes. The only negative thing for me is that they haven't really been able to really integrate the humor well enough into it, and sometimes the jokes seem forced, but I think I saw improvement as the series proceeded and I hope they continue.

.....................Then episode 3 happened, with it's veiled attacks on the male gender,heterosexuality and putting those wonderful females on a pedestal whilst the men are portrayed as clueless dumb idiots (Yet again). It seems to me there is an agenda being forced onto the unsuspecting audience and judging by the reviews all over IMDB people are slowly waking up to this anti male, anti heterosexual feminisation bile that's being rammed down our throats. The show isn't funny, the plots just preach political correctness and the acting is just awful.There are better shows out there, Seth Macfarlane I thought you were better than this.