not sure I agree. Acting is so-so. Compared to most of todays acting, which consists of reading a script, it is good acting. They lost me when Capt. Pike was describing what cataclysmic events on earth and it destroyed 600,000 species! Not people but species.
Yeah, that description was a little over the top for me. Plus I have a hard time not seeing Pike as Bohannon on Hell on Wheels.