This show basically trashes the optimistic, high values of the Federation of TNG and TOS. It is not Star Trek. The characters are ill-formed, kill with impunity, are out of control, directionless egocentrics. Picard is a hapless shadow of his past self and the hopeless writing and story arc of Season 1 has not been aided by poorly patched in cameos by past characters. Seven of Nine is particularly poorly judged; she's devolved from her role in Voyager -- a highly advanced, resourceful and rational superwoman into an angry drunk. The other characters are barely worth mentioning, Irish Romulan and all. I gave the first two episodes of Season 2 a chance to redeem the series after Kurtzman's disastrous stab at killing off all that was good, decent, positive, and visionary about TNG's Federation, but even with Q roped into the proceedings, it continues to be highly unpleasant, and as unrepresentative of the original vision of Star Trek as to be disappointing at best, and joins other modern reboots that revel in the undoing of past characters in the never-ending mission to ridicule that which went before while supplanting it with something inferior, and in this case, infinitely worse. To Boldly Go? Please Boldly Stop.