I think the reason, I initially didn't care for the show, was That half way through the Pilot episode, They Signaled there surrender. Forever etching in my mind, Picard as an appeaser.
Stephen
Nor was that the last time Picard surrenderd during the first season. It was only an episode or two later that he surrendered again to the Ferengi. I'd make a joke about Picard's ancestry, but that would be rude.
He didn't become a real captain until after the Borg had him for a while. And even then he was still soft.
-S'Cipio
PS: I remember those men walking down the corridor in miniskirts. I think that was supposed to be a PC "correction" of TOS, where the women's uniforms were miniskirts. "Look! It wasn't a sexist uniform! The men in the Federation wear skirts too!"
They needn't have bothered filming that. We Gorn have always known that men in the federation wear skirts.