My initial reaction was it was not star Trek, but game of thrones in space with over the top emotionality and focus on individual power struggles. Like, Star Trek at it’s best is about how people of limited power organized to understand and coexist in the universe. This has nothing to do with that, but was all there is an evil universe and it’s all or nothing to survive.

I liked the actual spoken klingon-- a technical feat of bringing a new language to life.

It was really beautiful

I was weirdly uncomfortable but also ended up really liking the red headed engineering lady’s character and role-- something actually kind of new for Star Trek, I think.

Reason I stopped watching, apart from disinterest in an arching plot that’s more like medieval warrior king business, was the focus on a tear jerking character that in any other series would get a couple one off episodes, but here was supposed to be driving the main plot and was just way to much of her.

It could just be me: the expanse annoyed me the same way after a while with the scruffy captain guy crying and doing dumb emotional things every episode. I get that that’s the point of a lot of plots tragic flaw that’s actually a strength because love wins or whatever, but the melodramatic representation… I guess I’m looking for short form thought experiments, not the fate of humanity and everyone you love rests on the knife edge of one character’s emergency therapy session.

Star Trek is supposed to explore the structures we build to prevent the need for emergency therapy in spite of the fact that we are all just weak emotional people.