I've not been shy about my opinion of Star Trek: Picard. As a story, not just a Star Trek story, but as a story it fails in every way imaginable. Especially season three, which is built on faulty premises, with major plot holes and storylines that betray so many characters at their core. If it wasn't a season built around a reunion of sorts, I doubt the series would be as beloved as so many claim it to be.
One of the biggest, most insulting aspects of the show revolves around Beverly Crusher. In the third season, it's revealed that she and Jean-Luc Picard created a son, Jack. A son that Beverly never tried to tell Jean-Luc about, citing his status as a major name in Starfleet. Fearing that his enemies would come for his son. That's a fine enough reason to protect your son, sure but then Beverly ends up taking him into every war-torn, dangerous area she can think of for most of his young life.
Kind of counterproductive, no? Not only that, but to add insult to injury, she names Picard's son after her dead, ex-husband, Jack. A famed Starfleet officer in his own right. So not only are you putting Jack the Second in danger, but you're also putting a target on his back as well.
Then after all of this, Picard apologizes to them. Neutering the once noble and proud captain.
All of that was done as some sort of tearing down of Picard. Why they did it I'll never know, but they did. Yet, it's still not as bad as the fact that Picard is technically a golem now...yeah the show was bad.
But season three could've been better. It could've been so much better. Instead of trying to paint Picard as this career-obsessed pyschophant, and Beverly as this concerned mother, you could've gone a whole different route. The route that the IDW comics went with her.
You could've made her distrustful.
In Star Trek #27, Crusher confesses to Ben Sisko that she doesn't trust Starfleet and never really has since Jack Crusher (her former husband, not Picard's son) died. While she makes it clear she trusts her friends (I guess, everyone but Jean-Luc), she never really gets over her loss and there seems to be some lingering resentment for Starfleet.
If that, and only that was the reason she gave Picard for why she never brought their son into his life earlier, everyone would be fine. If she looked at Picard and told him that she didn't trust Starfleet to protect Jack, and she felt the need to keep him away from the whole thing; then that would've worked.
Yet, that's not what they did. Instead, Beverly basically blamed Picard for why she never brought his son to him and then named his son after another man. Crusher as a character may never recover, not after this seriously misguided and poorly thought-out writing.