The fact that Riker was essentially the poor man’s Kirk
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Okay, so Riker was clearly written to be the modern-day version of Kirk: handsome, charming, womanizing. The problem is that while Kirk’s female shenanigans were mostly fun (as was the spirit of the original “Star Trek”) and sometimes daring (that first on-screen interracial kiss), Riker’s romances are neither. He hooks up with literally every available female on every planet the Enterprise lands on, and the outcomes are always the same: he generally puts the entire crew at risk and walks away having learned nothing. And that attempt at political commentary in “The Outcast?” Full cringe.