Technobabble, technobabble, shaky camera, things blowing up... i had difficulty staying focussed on this snoozefest.

"Sliders" did it better.

Reminder that this was once an entertaining children's programme, but nowadays it's a vehicle for sinister purposes... Quoting Steven Moffat: "We've kind of got to tell a lie. We'll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn't have been, and we won't dwell on that. "We'll say, 'To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we'll summon it forth'." Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36442982

One of the creators of this show "humblebragged" that they've never even watched the original Star Trek series, and it shows. It just doesn't have the spirit, and feels like randomly put together story elements and special effects are supposed to fix everything, but they don't...