@Topper
Are you not getting two very different series (Picard on Prime, and Discovery on Netflix) "mixed up together"?
I can't say I remember much in any of the Discovery episodes that mentioned Picard to any extent at all.
Anyway, last Friday we watched latest episodes on Discovery on Prime - 14th episode of Series 2 (not shown before IIRC!) and 1st one of Series 3.
14th episode was full of "action" but the 1st was much less so, with Michael Burnham (a young female Federation officer if someone has never watched Series 1 or 2!) meeting a new companion/assistant after having travelled far into the distant future - and now the "search is on" to find Discovery (which followed her into the future) and then save the Federation
(which might be the only, and even then very tenuous link, between the 2 series)!