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.
I enjoy Discovery, although it takes a little bit to find it's feet. Due to the nature of the show (you'll understand as you watch) there can't really be any references to it in Lower Decks. Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks haven't co-existed for long so there aren't many references there to start with.
That being said, Lower Decks mostly references older Trek. You're more than prepared.
There is a crossover of lower decks characters in strange new worlds, but you'll get more out of that from seeing lower decks first