My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss because we havent watched any of the new shows yet.
There are relatively few direct references to Discovery in Lower Decks. More importantly, you'll enjoy Lower Decks even if you don't notice or "get" a handful of references.
Lower Decks isn't good because it references older shows, it's good because it's funny and you care about the characters. There are people out there watching it and loving it with minimal or no prior Trek knowledge.