Having trouble sleeping last night, I started turning over in my mind why I wasn't getting on with this new series, way less than Discovery (which it has its problems too, I suppose). It's undercutting Picard at every turn, from the news that he resigned from Star Fleet by mistake (!) to Star Fleet itself, which he previously had so much faith in, now being the villains. Maybe this will contrast with heroism later on, but it's damaging the character too much.
Also, the pilot of his new ship is a ridiculous macho cliché - he could easily have healed that wound, but no, he's too hard for that so continues to bleed instead. There's no real humour to the tone, even though Star Trek humour can be pretty corny, there's none of it here. Then there's ST's Irish problem looming with the twin holograms. And the whole thing looks like it's lit by open fridge doors, the art design is horribly gloomy and joyless.
Plus, almost everyone in it is an arsehole apart from a handful of characters who are presented as naïve because they're not arseholes, and therefore unworldly. That's Twitter troll level bullshit. Lastly, they're eking out the information about what is actually going on so meagrely that it's difficult to follow: the amount of made-up jargon we're supposed to keep up with is infuriating.
It's early days, but not as early as all that. I hope it will improve.