After watching the first two episodes of Lower Decks and being mostly okay with it, I watched a few more. The hyper-speed at which things happen and the overall tone is nuts. It's Trek, but a really demented version of it. I was hoping that either they'd tone down the craziness or I'd get more used to it (which would have the same effect), but I tried episode 5 today and just couldn't. It's not quite "mocking" TNG, but certainly exploring a much less reverent take on TNG life. Also, all the name-drops that I thought were mostly there to help establish that "this is real Trek, canon and everything" are getting kinda tiresome. It's like they're trying too hard, when I'd be okay with it if they'd backed off a bit. Or a lot. Oh well, I tried it.