Did they not get the memo about the war that annihilated most of the Federation?
Klingons having “ancient” cloaking technology ahead of the Romulans who invented it 10 years later, and Starfleet having no idea what it was. Even a genetic “aftershock” from the Augment experiments in Enterprise. 
Klingons looking weird, going bald to go to war, and a female chancellor can be explained by some future upheaval, genetic experimentation, body modification, or whatever. Disco probably has my favorite bridge, but it doesn’t belong where it is. The holo-comms and drastically teched-out Disco bridge feels like a natural evolution of 24th century LCARS, rather than a precursor to Jolly Rancher Buttons. Eliminating the Spock’s unknown human adopted sister connection makes Burnham her own person, rather than “someone who never should have existed”. But even if it wasn’t FAR in the future, a decade after Nemesis would have been FINE, and they could have gone “far future” later. It would have justified a LOT of stuff people have been complaining about. In his recent interview Doug Jones (Saru) described it as a “Model T comes driving into the new neighborhood.” While the 32nd century gives the show a mostly blank slate in terms of canon, jumping forward over 900 years makes our heroes a bit out of date, and their ship, the USS Discovery, an ancient museum piece. After dealing with issues of running into (and periodically conflicting with) Star Trek canon in the TOS era, Discovery producers decided to move the setting of their show to new ground-and there is no newer ground than the 32nd century, beyond all canon set by previous Trek series, including various future time-travelers who popped into episodes of Voyager and Enterprise. As star Sonequa Martin-Green says in the latest Star Trek Magazine, “We’re literally boldly going where no one has gone before.” So, Omega fits the facts as we know them, but this theory also answers the meta-question of why the creatives behind Discovery sent the 32nd century back into a dark age. 
Michael Burnham and Georgiou in a less civilized 32nd century Omega gives Discovery purpose Omega was so dangerous that the Federation was willing to violate its most core principle to destroy it. After any detection of Omega, orders were to destroy it “at all costs,” even if this required violating the Prime Directive. The incident was classified and the Federation implemented the “Omega Directive,” known solely to captains and flag officers. The first try by the Federation created ruptures in subspace affecting an entire sector. It turns out there is no known way to stabilize Omega molecules-any attempt to create them resulted in disaster. It was first discovered by the Federation in the 23rd century in the search for an inexhaustible power source however, there was an accident and a single particle of Omega destroyed a Starfleet science station and destabilized an entire region. A single Omega molecule has the same energy as a warp core. According to Captain Janeway, synthesized Omega is “the most powerful substance known to exist,” derived from extremely rare boronite. The Star Trek: Voyager fourth season episode “ The Omega Directive” introduced the Omega molecule into Trek canon. If you are looking for something that could stop travel and communication you need to look no further than the Omega molecule. A 32nd-century Coridanite is happy to finally see someone from the Federation
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