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Thanks for the heads up. I was pretty checked out by episode 2 (Everyone knew Wernher was a Nazi. Hell, by 1970 they had been rearming Nazis in West Germany to fight the Soviets for 20 years!) but as you say it was only getting worse. I just read through the episode summaries and it doesn't sound like I missed much.

What the hell even happened? It's not like Ronald Moore lacked experience. After Voyager and BSG he should know the formula: the A plot is actual story events and B plot is interpersonal conflict among the cast. You set up conflicts in the B plot to add tension on if they can overcome the challenge in the A plot. What you don't do is spend 40 minutes out of a 60 minute episode on squabbles among the astronaut wives. It's a show about stuff happening in space! Show us things happening in spaceships!

Just another failure to add to the scrap pile of all the "prestige" dramas produced during Peak TV. Hollywood responded to an unprecedented demand for content during Covid by disappearing up their navels about gender and race. An incredible waste of billions of dollars and millions of man-hours.