I played through the beta, and I pre-ordered. At first, I ragequit within an hour. But I gave it a fair second chance and I like it now. I especially enjoy not spending 15-20 minutes of game time to destroy an enemy player. The skills in the beginning of the game are limited yes, but your ship will allow for more and more as you rank and even grade up. Hopefully cryptic works on balancing high level skills though.
Missions suitably called "episodes" have arrangements like that of television episodes. The storyline episodes are pretty neat, and some hold a special value over others such as the mission going back into time where you bump into TOS enterprise as well as original-looking klingons haha.
I'd be interested to know if anyone formed a disco Fleet.
I've joined a fleet that I knew from Fallen Earth. I'm sure any of you are welcome to join.
Here's a Fleet video from Wolves of War: