I kinda like it... And compare it to Star Trek TOS

6 episodes into the first season and I think it has some merit. It has a few advantages over Star Trek:
1) There are interesting human (Nietzscheans - basically Khan's Eugenic superman as a society) and alien (Than -vaguely humanoid insects and Magog silly fur-suited humanoids with claws and fangs) races that have been planned into the setting rather than just invented and messed about with as the Klingons and Romulans of original Trek.
2) The setting allows for any number of human offshoots or "lost colonies" which original Trek did not allow for. Andromeda has a vast array of worlds potentially severed from one another for 300 years. Original Trek was poorly conceived partly because of limited budget, but also as a result of limited imagination. In Star Trek there were endless ridiculous "Earth Parallel" developments including the utterly laughable "Miri" in which a planet is discovered that is IDENTICAL to Earth for no obvious reason in the story. Even the planet with the "Yangs" and "Kohms" wasn't identical to Earth despite the goofy parallel with the English language, the American constitution and the flag. All these silly things can be avoided in Andromeda.
3) The technology seems to be better thought out. No transporter - an invention that only made less sense as TNG carefully explained it. The FTL is stated to only work at some distance from a gravity well and has a somewhat "seat of the pants" sort of feel. Thus most of the action takes place in normal space, even if "gravity control" means that ships maneuver as in Star Wars... I suppose they might give a sense of how great a jump Slipstream can make and possibly provide other limitations but, for starters, it seems better than starships dueling at hundreds of times the speed of light.

On the negative side, I don't care for the characters that much. - The post apocalyptic universe is a bit depressing. - I mentioned the awful Magog suit, which is unfortunate as the character is essential. - And, I could tire of the effects, which do have an inevitably cartoonish look.