Anyone who cant get past the first epidote, please dont give it up. I also dislike the first, however each episode is at least 50% better than the previous. The last few are great!
Same with The Orville. Dont judge a show too much on the first few episodes. If we did that, we wouldn't be Star Trek fans! Especially after Encounter at Farpoint..
Lower Decks feels like a Star Trek show, far more so than Disco and Picard. I mean it actually feels correct. It might be a comedy, but the look and style of the show is spot on. The computer interfaces are like what you see in TNG/VOY etc, uniforms are consistent, technology, the ships, the aliens etc. And it has an actual Star Trek intro, not a Bond/GOT ripoff.
The manic pacing and dialogue does calm down. But the stories are quintessentially Trek.
While I did watch Disco, and actually enjoyed the first half of S3....its categorically not Star Trek. They could have called it anything else and changed a few names etc and it would be Generic Sci Fi from Netflix. I blame Kurtzman and the 9 million Executive producers. They were almost on the right track with everything for S3 and then it went south rapidly after the mirror episodes.
And Picard started off alright, then that also rapidly declined after a few episodes, when they started to cram 4 seasons into 1.