Quark : I think I figured out why Humans don't like Ferengi.
Sisko : Not now, Quark.
Quark : The way I see it, Humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.
Sisko : Quark, we don't have time for this.
Quark : You're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than the Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you... we're better.
Also, this:
"Take away their creature comforts... put their lives in jeopardy over a long period of time..."
All of Star Trek until DIS has had these types of moments. Including Enterprise (the shit with the cloned baby guts me). The original series is laden with them, but it's one of the first shows that dealt with a lot of these sorts of concepts. TNG: Inner Light, The Quality of a Life, Measure of a Man. Voyager's episodes where the Doctor grew as a person. His family experience in the holodeck, dealing with the grief of losing a patient after making a judgment call on who he could save. Similarly with Seven and her Borg children, including One from the episode "Drone".
Discovery? Not a single moment in two seasons. Picard only had the moment where Hugh hugged him. Otherwise, it's all try-hard, force emoted drama without earning it. Discovery cut off a baby's head and I was just like, "Meh. It's fake like everything else." Picard kills off too many characters trying to be edgy like Game of Thrones without earning our interest in those characters, or killing them too quickly, especially with the ONE character people fucking like. RIP Hugh. Why do these characters have to be so damn unlikeable?
Pike was a breath of fresh air, but he really just served to contrast further how poorly Discovery was otherwise. I recently watched Inhumans, and he's the only thing good in that series as well.