Charlie Dade became conscious as they hauled him out of the cradle. After sleeping for twenty three standard years immersed in cryogenic fluid the alien air of Tau Ceti Four stung like ten thousand needles tattooing every inch of his skin. He was naked and confused. Guards shouted orders and started pushing him around. He got hit in the lower back by a baton and collapsed to the concrete floor. A guard grabbed his chin like he was a dog in trouble.

"Get on your feet, convict", he yelled. "Stand at attention and show some respect for your new warden, or I swear I will bash in your skull; right here, right now."

That being said, I am not feeling what the MC is feeling. I would like to feel groggy, anxious, scared. Whatever the main character is feeling about the situation, I would like to feel. Right now the opening feels....sterile.

Guards shouted orders etc. ... I'd say, show us an instance, and don't bother with this sentence of summary.

I had problems believing in the guard. OK, I get that guards can be sadistic and so on; it's just that we've got somebody who's just out of cryogenic fluid, and he's still groggy. Surely the guards are used to this by now, and wouldn't expect otherwise? Also, "show some respect for your new warden." It doesn't seem like a natural thing to say, but a way of informing the reader that we're about to see a new warden. Also, "I swear I will bash your head in": they just went to significant expense to ship this man to another star system. The guard's threat *must* be empty -- he'll be severely punished if they value a convict enough to spend all this money on him -- and Charlie *must* know it, and the guard knows he knows it. I could more readily believe in a threat to cause pain.