Highly dislike Crusher and Picard never being resolved. Especially when the ending we did have heavily implied that the future Q showed Picard made him backpedal and decide he should never hook up w/ her if it would just end up in divorce. In my head canon, Q fictionalized that to keep Picard single b/c he wanted Picard for himself. It's sleezy! Picard and Bev deserve happiness and their chemistry on the show is the probably the best in maybe all of Star Trek. I just want my space-mom and space-dad to be happy. (Tangent: I really enjoyed PIC, and it's a fascinating look at the character, but it'll never not be upsetting to me b/c I jus want my boi to be happy.)
Worf and Deanna hooking up was great for Worf, because it was the culmination of his series-long character development arc of him becoming more comfortable as a person living between cultures and participating in both. Instead of always feeling like an outsider, or like he's betraying his Klingonness by doing UFP-things. In the beginning of TNG, he has an almost forelorn description of how he belongs in neither society. And a lot of his character episodes are about him learning that he can still accommodate and participate in human culture without losing his identity as a Klingon. And that Klingon culture isn't this static thing set in stone but something that changes and evolves (like all cultures do) and that he can and should be a part of guiding that evolution.
The problem with Deanna and Worf is that it does nothing for Deanna. Like, I never got a feeling for what she saw in Worf or why that pairing was something that would be a good mesh with her personality/priorities/lifestyle. It just never made a lot of sense because the writers didn't even seem to think about exploring it. It felt like she had no agency in this scenario and was just a tool for exploring Worf's character development, when a good coupling should be a story about how both parties complement each other. At the very least, I got a better sense of why Jadzia liked Worf and what she got out of that relationship.
Worf and Deanna hooking up was great for Worf, because it was the culmination of his series-long character development arc of him becoming more comfortable as a person living between cultures and participating in both. Instead of always feeling like an outsider, or like he's betraying his Klingonness by doing UFP-things. In the beginning of TNG, he has an almost forelorn description of how he belongs in neither society. And a lot of his character episodes are about him learning that he can still accommodate and participate in human culture without losing his identity as a Klingon. And that Klingon culture isn't this static thing set in stone but something that changes and evolves (like all cultures do) and that he can and should be a part of guiding that evolution.
The problem with Deanna and Worf is that it does nothing for Deanna. Like, I never got a feeling for what she saw in Worf or why that pairing was something that would be a good mesh with her personality/priorities/lifestyle. It just never made a lot of sense because the writers didn't even seem to think about exploring it. It felt like she had no agency in this scenario and was just a tool for exploring Worf's character development, when a good coupling should be a story about how both parties complement each other. At the very least, I got a better sense of why Jadzia liked Worf and what she got out of that relationship.