This is awful. It's just not very well-written, not on any level. Every single character reads like a caricature, but the worst by far is the captain. Calhoun seems to be presented as an outstanding individual, but it's all tell and no show, because mostly his role seems to be to have snarky conversations (which are neither funny nor impressive) and to be proved immediately correct whenever one of his subordinates disagrees with him. As for those subordinates, his first officer, Shelby, is almost as cringe-inducing. A former lover, she's been placed in the role of babysitter to this unpleasant supposed iconoclast, which isn't entertaining in the slightest.

Really, the whole thing is just depressingly superficial. It wouldn't rise to competence on Ao3.