After thinking about the first episode a little bit, I have a few things that don't make a whole lot of sense. Now, when you first watch something you just kind of suspend disbelief and go with whatever they give you as they set up the story. That said...
How did the United Federation of Planets suddenly become the kind of people that
would not help evacuate a planet or even solar system of people from certain doom? I mean, everything Roddenberry set up in Star Trek was the idea of an optimistic, understanding, and benevolent future federation, and now they are racist and cold? Hard to accept this premise.