Jean-Luc Picard becoming an android is among the worst things Star Trek: Picard did

We could do a whole list of things that Star Trek: Picard made fans suffer through, and maybe one day we will do just that. Yet, we're not going to do that today. Picard for many was a mixed bad, but no one being honest with themselves (or the show) will tell you that the show was "good". It had its moments, and season three certainly gave fans wave after wave of nostalgia. Was it a worthwhile season?

No, it was poorly written in many aspects (The Borg can inject all of Starfleet, but decides to have an age limit instead of just taking over everyone and squashing their opposition? Make it make sense). But the fans liked the fact that their favorite characters from The Next Generation came back for a watered-down mess. So there's that at least.

Yet, the most obnoxious thing that Picard arguably did was kill off Picard. But not really. It would've been an interesting idea to kill off Jean-Luc Picard in the first season and leave him dead. Especially if he went out far better than James T. Kirk did in Star Trek Generations.

That's not what happened. Despite dealing with a vague brain ailment that hardly seemed to slow him, Picard was in fact dying from this illness. Only to be saved at the zero hour, with his conscience (and soul?) being downloaded directly into a synthetic body. Thus curing death forever in Star Trek's universe.

Those weren't the worst bits of the story, however. You'd think downloading yourself into a synthetic body would come with upsides. Maybe you're more spry, younger looking, or even just overall more healthy.

Nope. Instead, Picard gets told he'll die a natural death when it's his team. Unlike the death that he was saved from earlier from his brain thing. Despite that being a "natural death", Picard was spared then. So why not the next time? The writing in this show was atrocious and it just made everything that the Next Generation did feel inconsequential with how everything went down on Picard.

It's easily the biggest example of why you should never bring back the past for a remake. It can never be as good as the first time around.