I am still endlessly fascinated by this. I wouldn't necessarily call it worthwhile yet, the tone is still off and the humor still feels so out of place and that is when there is humor, I clocked a good 20 minutes in the middle there where it was completely dramatic(which makes the humor's return jarring).
The one thing it really needs to work on is endearing us to the characters, as is the only one who has left any real impression is Alara and that only was because she got the spotlight here but everyone else is a bunch of nothing. Borus is a gag character, the pilot and navigator are both one dimensional, the robot is a robot, Ed is just kind of there, and Adrianne Palicki is endlessly watchable in anything, just seeing her laughing and flashing her megawatt smile while reminiscing on the couch was worth the time, but Kelly is just...I don't even know.
And speaking of that scene with Kelly and Ed reminiscing(best moment of the episode I would say), I think that that nicely shows what the show should be(and maybe is) aiming for, a certain casualness that puts ostensibly 'normal' people into a Star Trek like world. But that ends up clashing horribly with the style of humor on display, the two halves aren't meshing well, when the humor really kicks in(like with his parents on the view screen) it feels like the show stops and a comedy bit happens and then that ends and the actual shows starts again.
It is watchable though and I hope it sticks around to find its proper footing.
