He did himself dirty. Even in early TNG he was bothering producers for Picard to do more 'fighting and fucking' and that's where the Risa episode came from, a mandate to get his character laid. As he gained greater leverage the character drifted further away from what he was. He became Action Hero Guy in the movies, partially at his behest and partially cause the tng movies where kind of a mess. I genuinely cried when I heard that he died, and there are people that I know irl who died and I didnt cry over. But i'm not gonna refrain from criticizing his creative choices regarding star trek because of it either. It is what it is, I never held it against him personally and putting myself in his shoes, I can get where he was coming from. From being a huge trekkie and hearing enough quotes from or about Patrick Stewart, he was sorta half Picard half his character from American Dad. Blunt Talk is an underrated show of his.