- I was very surprised to see all these low user ratings on IMDB. I very much enjoyed the First Season.
- Remember, this is TV, not reality! In real life, if an alien artifact landed on earth, governments would have nuked it. If it doesn't communicate nor attack, then it's hiding its intentions (not good) and is preparing for something. Therefore deserving to be destroyed, based on better safe than sorry reasoning.
- Life on the spaceship would have been very, very boring! No mutiny, no bringing aboard dangerous alien life or plant forms, no intercourse between an AI and a person (in realistic VR). It's highly likely, all the security protocols, discipline and procedures would have prevented that. The above problems are predictable and they can be mitigated. Problematic personalities would have been filtered out early, as in the first few weeks of the Space Cadet School.
But in case of TV, one doesn't have to care about reality.
- What I liked was that there was no unnecessary dwelling on a storyline. As in there was no uncomfortable writhing around insider threat and not too long painful obliviousness of colleagues about their evil alien comrade (a human with a chip in his head). Everything proceeded quickly, in the correct, enjoyable time frame.
- The lead actor Kathryn Ann Sackhoff was perfect for her role. She was the kind of sinewy, commander, marine, athletic type one would expect of a captain.