It’s a massive credit to Avery Brooks that the best Star Trek episodes of all time are all Sisko episodes. The others obviously being In The Pale Moonlight and Far Beyond the Stars.
Discovery forces in representation for representations sake. It’s not relevant to the plot at all. Like did we really need two scenes explaining that there is a non binary character? No, no we didn’t.
Watch Picard Season 3, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks and possibly Prodigy.
Avoid all of Discovery and the first two seasons of Picard. They are the worst Star Trek has ever been and seem to exist for no other reason than to pander to the “we need to be represented” crowd.