As someone who was in a similar situation: - I'd skip episode 3. Maybe come back to it later. It's the episode that nearly put me off the series. I think 4 is

As someone who was in a similar situation: - I'd skip episode 3. Maybe come back to it later. It's the episode that nearly put me off the series. I think 4 is a fairer episode to judge it by. - It's not a parody of Star Trek and it's not meant to be one. It's more like Seth MacFarlane really wanted to run a Star Trek show and couldn't, so made something about as close as he could while still appeasing the networks with some crude humour thrown in. It's not as good as TNG but it's definitely an okay Star Trek at this point. They've toned down the stupid humour and premises from where it started.