Although Star Trek has also been part of my life since a child (I am apparently one of the few to cut my ST teeth on the animated series as my introduction) I won't be watching Discovery until it's available via some other means that a subscription to a single channel.  Part of my cable bill goes to CBS, and they get revenue for the commercials. 

While most of the technology would seem to be in the far distant future, the use of floppy drive looking objects has come and gone.  The smart phone is way ahead of the communicator, although the communicator does not require the infrastructure that a smart phone does.  Computers as a part of daily life is true for those living in the first world.  

  Perhaps a quibble, but even in the ST universe intergalactic travel is not possible.  This was touched on in an original series episode.  They are traveling to the other solar systems in this galaxy.  Even these distances are vast, and at present seem insurmountable.