Everyone can relax now, this is not star trek, false alarm. Its like all the logic, the rules the lore and everything went out of the window.
Spoiler Alert
Seriously, they do a race vs culture discussion in S01E01. Bridge is on the bottom of the ship. And they send out the first officer in an EV suite on a dangerous mission (shuttle pods DOH!). They start the series by starfleet officers (captain + first officer, against regulations) shooting a phase cannon (no phase cannons in that era). And meeting a klingon in S01E01, not knowing immedieatly what it is and attacking it. How original. No other show did that. Except in enterprise, they did everything to save the klingon, here it is " charge proton rocket launcher and kill them all, before they see us"
And we had fight between officers, first officer assaulting captain, captain threatening first officer with a phaser. Instead of saying "you are relieved of duty, leave the bridge". I mean what the hell. Did they see any episodes before? Is there anyone who knows ST sitting at the writers table and screaming "that is not how ST works"
Its like Star trek XI again. They show London, and it is not raining. You cannot change things like this.
I couldn't disagree more - and based on the reviews, I think most people disagree and think ST:Discovery is really good, because it is!
Regarding your complaints...
*spoilers*
-What's the issue with the race vs culture thing? It's reminiscent of Kirk's objection in The Undiscovered Country - that Klingons know only war and we have to be brutal or be destroyed.
-What's the problem with the bridge location? These are ships that operate in 3 dimensions, it could be deep in the center of the ship and wouldn't matter.
-I agree it was hard to imagine they would send a first officer in a spacesuit to investigate an unknown object, but they explained why they can't use a ship for it.
-They didn't immediately attack the Klingon - it was self defense.
-The 1st officer was advocating a preemptive attack, but that didn't happen. Again, no different than Kirk's attitude towards Klingons.
-Not sure what your beef is with the captain pointing the phaser at the first officer. Such power struggles after disobeying orders have been done *dozens* of times across ST series!
*END SPOILERS*
It sounds like you hated it before you ever watched an episode. I think this ST is great!
For anyone who hasn't seen it, give it a shot. One of my beefs with things like Star Wars was that they tried to soften it and add too much humor and make it child friendly. When Disney took over, the grit came back. That's what this new ST series does - brings back the grit. It is not individual episodes which stand on their own, but rather one big story arc that spans the whole season, similar to what DS9 did with the Dominion or Voyager did with the Borg. And that's a good thing - they were running very thin on ideas with stand-alone episodes.
The imagery and special effects are absolutely fantastic - on par with the best of any of the movies. The lead character is great too - complex and interesting and definitely not an in-your-face SJW pandering character. The story is just unfolding, but it seems to be good - without spoiling, it's clear that the series will chronicle the resurgence of the Klingon empire as they enter a galaxy-wide confrontation with the Federation. Much like the newest ST movies with Chris Pine, it's clear the writers aren't burdening themselves with remaining totally true to the canon of the old series. They aren't being ridiculous like inventing entire new universes, but (for example) they aren't trying to make their technology look the same as The Old Series.
In a nutshell, it's only 2 episodes in, but they were both very good. Infinitely better than Encounter At Farpoint, or that crap with the Caretaker on Voyager, and better than how DS9 started off. If you are a ST fan, you will like it - unless you're one of those folks that already dislikes it and is just looking for things to shit on about the series. It's more action packed and visually stunning than any other ST series, and more like a movie thus far.