Who's watching it?
We began watching this just before the series came back from its break over Christmas.
For me, this is the Star Trek that we've been waiting for since Voyager (because I have difficulty fully accepting Enterprise as part of Star Trek and feel the same way about the three 2009-onward films).
This, to me feels like the Star Trek that they should be making in 2017 that still fits together with The Original Series and Next Generation.
My only slight gripe is that the starship design is only marginally better than that of the JJ Abrams films.
Everything else is just great.
I grew up from the age of about 4 with Captain Kirk's adventures in TOS and then got used to Picard, then Sisko and Janeway.
For me, Kirk (as played by Shatner), Picard and Janeway are the top tier of starship captains with Sisko following a short way behind.
At the moment, Captain Lorca is making his way into that top tier and he's only even been in a handful of episodes.
He's nothing like what you would expect of a starship captain. I dunno what else to say about the character except that ... out of every captain you've ever seen in Star Trek, he is the one that you least want to get in the way of.
What I like about Discovery is that, while the show is 30 years evolved from TNG (and there are lots of changes that fans seem to find oddly difficult to digest), Discovery feels like genuine, heavy-duty Star Trek, the same way that TOS and TNG do.
I hope that I haven't set the expectations unreasonably high for anyone that hasn't seen it yet.
When I downloaded it, I didn't know what to expect and set my hopes fairly low based on the comments that I'd seen on TrekCore and the like but I was quickly pleasantly surprised.