I haven't seen episode 3 of Discovery yet, but the first 2 were... really, really awful. Maybe I would like them better if I didn't just now start watching TNG (just started season 4), so I'm only just now starting to get what Star Trek was like, but this Michael person is an awful human being and I honestly hate her, as a lead role and as a person. Her disjointed introduction and sporadic mood shifts certainly didn't help to establish her (she's honestly three different people in the first episode), but the one she seemed to settle on by the end of episode 2 deserved to be imprisoned.
I don't get how everyone rails against Wesley Crusher as the worst character in Star Trek, yet so many people are okay with this seething c**t. Is episode 3 an improvement?