Who told Patrick Stewart he could film Star Trek without his fellow castmates? It was painfully clear after a few episodes that Picard was too dark with few bright spots. Nepenthe was the highest rated episode of Season 1. What did Stewart do? He continued to ask Brent Spiner on to the detriment of the character Data whom fans began to dislike after he died for the umpteenth time!

Then when we got to year three after Storm and Drang, fans had to wait until episode nine to see the entire cast together. Allegedly, Paramount didn't want to pay the insurance for the senior actors of Picard, forcing Jack's biography on us when many viewers would have preferred the cast. That Patrick couldn't reach into his own pockets and pay the insurance speaks volumes about his role as an executive producer that is more concerned with saving money than ensuring the story is gotten right.

I disagree with you Charles. You see fandom isn't just made up of a bunch of Millennial men who are in their 40s. There are also a fair number of women and children who watch the show and like stories on the relationships. Mostly MALE fans are the ones who don't want relationships in the storylines despite Gene Roddenberry believing family life and relationships to be very important.

Matalas proved in Picard he can't write women because almost every woman's storyline aside from Vidac was serving Picard or Riker. Writing to serve only one part of the fandom is poor writing. Not only that because Matalas didn't write about the relationships very well that have been the important elements of the female characters of Trek, both Beverly and Troi come off one dimensional. Raffie looks inept and Seven lost both Raffie as a lover and Shaw as a mentor. Furthermore, many questions were left unanswered and many characters simply ignored, leaving some fans feeling slighted.

So no, don't speak for everyone, just speak for the viewers who are too immature to hold relationships because they are playing video games and have no social skills. Speak to the ones who get offended if Michael Burnham cries or that Culver is gay.

Because of this, it's easier to speak for everyone, yet not know what other fans want.

Unfortunately, they don't want to see their favorite characters in healthy relationships because it makes their reality seem bleak and forces them to look at their own lives.

Matalas listened to these fanboys with the result that his script had too many plot holes that were preventable had he written the relationships properly. That fans think that Matalas will get Legacy to correct the relationship issues is a long shot.

Instead of Matalas owning up to his mistakes in writing, he'd rather feed fans the hope of him getting Legacy despite Paramount not being financially able. Thus, he leaves Picard with many unanswered questions had he made relationships a priority.

I was really disappointed in the writing when it came to the relationships in Picard. Matalas doesn't understand how to write relationships. He relies on uncreative tropes and stereotypes that simply fall flat. That the story between Laris and Picard was dropped like a hot potato is so typical of a those whose own relationship with women is not based on maturity and respect. If you think about how all the women in Picard were protrayed in the P3, you will realize that most of them were extensions of the men they served. Matalas killed off Shelby, Ro and Vadic to serve Picard. Beverly had severed her relationships with all those she loved including the Troi-Rikers. Seven lost her mentor and her lover Raffie while Raffie needed Worf to fix her family. Finally, the few minutes Troi and Riker spent in confinement, saw Riker not apologizing to his wife for leaving their daughter and her, but Troi taking the blame for trying to keep the family together. That Riker talked more about his dead son Thad than his living daughter Kestra pointed out to me how little women are valued by Matalas. That Geordi didn't have his wife and appeared to be a single father was troubling and a sign that Matalas doesn't know how to write healthy Black families. Matalas went for pleasing the male fans of Trek who repeatedly say that they don't want relationships in Trek and see women as servicing them and not the other way around. That Jack Crusher turned out to be such a schmuck and not a very caring person was icing on the cake. The relationships could have been so much better, but Matalas is too immature. Picard and Laris can be considered Boomers who usually have a more series approach to dating, marriage and family. That Matalas wrote ghosting into their relationship is some high level Millennial BS which Boomer wouldn't even think of doing. They'd simply call at home or with the communicator and tell the person face-to-face that the relationship was over.