Yeah - I just watched it. Things don't feel dire. It's all good morning this, and hey, let's do this slow test of competence that. With no sense of urgency, the premise falls flat.
The costuming is good. I despise the unis from this era but they did get them right. The outdoor location was lovely and a decent choice as it looks timeless (and was likely a cost-saving measure to get -- very wise use of funds there). Wish the running water wasn't quite so loud. Score was pretty good; kudos to them for not repeating the standard TOS theme somewhere in there. The 2 guys with the most screen time improved as they went on, leading me to believe the film was shot more or less in order. Definitely kudos for adding POC.
Women had virtually nothing to do, though. One even escorted I forget who in, and that's kind of standard receptionist behavior. Not that people don't need escorts or the like. It felt more like how TOS after The Cage compartmentalized women into traditional female-dominated jobs -- nurse, switchboard operator, and secretary (Rand). Giving the female doctor the "yoohoo!" line felt cringey to me. She had one good line about working together. Otherwise, she was set dressing, and the escorting woman even more so. They never spoke to each other, so goodbye Bechdel test.
I found the question about being able to work together after attending rival schools to be weird. Once you're past maybe your first month of any sort of employment, that kind of nonsense stops mattering, if it ever did. In particular, that's silly for people over the age of 30, which the male doctor certainly was (yeah, I know about the last bit but that was the presentation and would be a viewer's expectation). I imagine the idea was to provide those two with a smidgen of dialogue, but no one even asked them about the cloud, so they could have been replaced with anyone with no harm done to the overall story arc (the sexy lamp test).
One bit of kudos to point out is the good mix of ages. The right people were older or younger. It didn't feel like anyone shoehorning themselves into the wrong age group. As in, admirals should be older people. Lieutenants and other lower grade people can be young but not too young, up to retirement age. The doctors were a good contrast in that respect, giving forth a vibe of trying to get a team with disparate viewpoints together in order to best tackle the problem at hand. Pity they barely mentioned why they were there.
