Really not warming to this at all.
Captain Jason Isaacs is, so far, just vile. I know it's meant to be in war - but using living creatures as weapons/propulsion systems etc really doesn't fit right with anything we've seen in about 800 TV episodes and a dozen movies. The mad/bad Captain in that episode of Voyager did it, but even Section 31 etc never went to these lengths.
The security chief randomly wanting to chop the creatures hand off, the dull religious fundamentalist Klingons. If this show didn't have the misplaced brand/fan loyalty it wouldn't last.
I really, really hope they're going to use this show as an anthology as originally planned...