Long time Star Trek fan here, I've seen every series multiple times (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise). The new Klingons threw me for a loop - I didn't even recognize them as a race until I saw the space battle where he first drew his battlleth (and even those look fucked up now). They're all bald, and even their costumes are odd and look more inspired by Game of Thrones than by any previous Star Trek canon... I'm not even sure how we tell the men from the women, as it almost seemed like there was one Klingon female aide in the second episode helping the martyr priest T'vulak (or whatever his name was), but I couldn't tell for sure because they're all bald and very similar in appearance.
Had no qualms with the Asian Lady captain, she seemed like a wise mentor figure and from the opening credits listing Michelle Yeoh as a "special guest star" you knew she wasn't going to be a permanent fixture. Then you have Sonequa from The Walking Dead, whom I like as an actress, and they made her a human raised by Vulcans and named Michael. I don't get what they were smoking with the name bit, but I was enjoying the exploration of her deep relationship with the iconic vulcan Sarek...
I look forward to seeing how this all turns out. If I had to rate the first 2 episodes, I'd say they're about as popular to me as the latter seasons of Enterprise (as it ramped up), or about the 3rd season of DS9 when that one started to pick up steam (and they finally stopped talking about the damn Bajoran Occupation). I think the show has potential, but only time will tell if it can produce the emotional heavy hitters that came in the latter seasons of DS9 or the memorable classics from TNG (a lot of TNG was crap, but it survived because every now and again it turned out an episode that knocked you on your ass).
