Yeah, episode 3 of Discovery, directed by Akiva Batman & Robin Goldsman, was not good. This dour, dark military sci-fi is like Battlestar Galactica, not Star Trek.
I hated, hated, HATED all that “Starfleet’s just one, big, happy family” utopianist crap TNG fostered upon us, but I don’t like this grimdark junk any better.
TOS & DS9 managed to strike a balance between extremes. Why is it so hard for modern writers to do the same?