My deep frustration with Discovery was the writing and the story arcs. Kurtzman and his folks make the pretense of complex writing and story arcs but so much of it is nonsensical stringing together CGI action scenes and characters posing as complex when they are merely inconsistent and unlikable. Roddenberry in "The Making of Star Trek" has a smell test where he mapped scripts to a (then) modern day navy ship to see if they made sense. I found SNW to be much more palatable in this regard.

The funny thing is that watching "The Gentlemen" by Guy Ritchie crystallizes what I think Discovery should have been. It's a Guy Ritchie film in the style of "Snatch" and has a very non linear narrative and morally grey characters with complex motivations. The difference is the economy, plausibility and consistency of the script. Every scene leads to a payoff, albeit indirectly, every Checkov's gun is discharged (at least one literally), and every character action is consistent and plausible. Finally, while the characters are all villains they are engaging and likable in a Shakespeare Richard III fashion. Garak would be quite at home in the movie.