Thank you for posting that interview snippet. I am now even more of a Patrick Stewart fangirl than I was before.
I too love Picard, for all the reasons you mentioned, and I think it's erroneous to say that the characters on ST:TNG were ever presented as perfect. They all clearly had their flaws. There's a stronger case for the idea that the society they lived in was supposed to be perfect, but not the individual protagonists. And I don't even think the society was perfect--it was quasi-utopian, because the political system was fundamentally sound and the structure of the fictional universe favored happy endings, but we did see quite a few blind spots. (A truly perfect society would never even consider treating Data as a toaster, would it?) I can see how it would still be too saccharine for a lot of people, but that's not the same as being perfect.
As for "The Best of Both Worlds" and "Family," they had a huge impact on me despite the fact that my TV expectations were formed by shows of the late 90s and early 00s. So I think they really do stand the test of time even beyond the novelty of the lack of a reset button.
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I too love Picard, for all the reasons you mentioned, and I think it's erroneous to say that the characters on ST:TNG were ever presented as perfect. They all clearly had their flaws. There's a stronger case for the idea that the society they lived in was supposed to be perfect, but not the individual protagonists. And I don't even think the society was perfect--it was quasi-utopian, because the political system was fundamentally sound and the structure of the fictional universe favored happy endings, but we did see quite a few blind spots. (A truly perfect society would never even consider treating Data as a toaster, would it?) I can see how it would still be too saccharine for a lot of people, but that's not the same as being perfect.
As for "The Best of Both Worlds" and "Family," they had a huge impact on me despite the fact that my TV expectations were formed by shows of the late 90s and early 00s. So I think they really do stand the test of time even beyond the novelty of the lack of a reset button.