No, there's an offhand mention or two, but nothing impactful. The most important tie is Pike being aware of his fate, but they recap that pretty thoroughly.

I will always root for Trek to succeed. I'm hoping that by including Rachel Garrett, this isn't too timey-wimey and we get a well written TUC-TNG lost era story.

I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians will cease firing once the Russians leave their country and stop trying to murder them.

For a minute there I thought this was going to be about a nuclear aircraft. That's some wild 1950s shit right there.

I don't think 24 episodes will be happening any time soon, but it would be nice to have 12-14. Ten is so few, and with the ongoing strikes, it's going to be a while until another season happens.