No, hopefully it WILL be closer to what STAR TREK (1966-1969), used to be. (In 1987 - I HATED the adoption of the A&B story plot structures that because a fixture of TNG era scripts.
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Who can say? My impression from what I saw is...
Yes, in the sense that they can never go back to the tone and style of the Berman-era series as follow-ons from this series.
That doesn't mean that the representation we're getting of Picard's world in Picard doesn't work, but to see events at the time of "Encounter At Farpoint" as part of a future Trek series would probably demand an aesthetic at least as modern as Picard rather than replicating the 1987 look and feel. I can imagine them recreating one scene or location from that era as a part of a current series, in very much the same way the TOS Enterprise bridge is made to appear in "Relics;" that would be a judgement at that time by the producers.
I can't overstate my impression that this series changes the style and vision of Star Trek, forever - except in the unlikely event that it tanks early and disastrously. Ain't gonna happen, IMO, no matter how many time the goobers at "Midnight's Edge" lie to their credulous, enraged followers.
That doesn't mean that the representation we're getting of Picard's world in Picard doesn't work, but to see events at the time of "Encounter At Farpoint" as part of a future Trek series would probably demand an aesthetic at least as modern as Picard rather than replicating the 1987 look and feel. I can imagine them recreating one scene or location from that era as a part of a current series, in very much the same way the TOS Enterprise bridge is made to appear in "Relics;" that would be a judgement at that time by the producers.
I can't overstate my impression that this series changes the style and vision of Star Trek, forever - except in the unlikely event that it tanks early and disastrously. Ain't gonna happen, IMO, no matter how many time the goobers at "Midnight's Edge" lie to their credulous, enraged followers.
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Berman, Braga, Moore, Taylor, Behr and Coto didn't go back to the tone and style of TOS yet much of it still worked. I'm cool with new Trek not being a copy of 1987-2005 Trek so long as it's competently executed and not a sloppy and confusing bore.
Of course it's not dead and gone for good. But those shows were all written at the same time with the intent of maintaining a sameness.
That's not Star Trek though. It's a variety platform and new Trek is moving in to the position of taking full advantage of it.
They did when they appeared in Disco S2
I do not believe the size of the crew complement is stated in the first two episodes.
All we have to go on so far is the ship's schematic readout on the bridge of Discovery at the beginning of Season 2. She still has 203 crew aboard at that point, matching "The Cage(TOS)."
I think she might have, yeah!
No. In fact,
It is also not explained why Pike appears to be embarking on his first mission as Captain since the events of "Such Sweet Sorrow," and why Enterprise is being rushed out of its post-"Sorrow" refit for the the first time, when we saw those events happen in an entirely different fashion at the end of that episode.
I imagine we'll be hearing some complaints about that online in the next week, as well as attempts to explain it away. But in reality it's just one of those minor conundrums created by producers and studios prioritizing current intentions and story needs over improvised bits of casting and continuity created to fill the needs of the moment in another venue. Kind of like the recasting of the lead character in Stargate: Atlantis after another actress had been cast in the role for the episodes of Stargate: SG1 which introduced the premise of the new show.
Fans have to be willing to fill some of these bits in for themselves if continuity on this level matters to them - as they've had to do for more half a century when watching Star Trek. In this instance,
There's enough talk and examples in the first episode concerning "normal crew rotation" between vessels that explaining the absence of "Colt" et al for ourselves should not be challenging.
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What about paper print out guy? Do they have paper print out guy?
You’ve met “ourselves” , right? 
I wouldn't want to be within ten miles of some of us much less meet some of us.
Or the girl who sat there, while everyone reached over her to get the paper print out and watched them all talk over her?
Impossible. The only woman allowed on the bridge is Number One.
This could be the first Trek nitpick in history, dating from 1965! Pike can't get used to having a woman on the bridge, yet there were at least 3 at one point!
Gene's Vision™ was screwed up from the beginning!
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