Thirst Officer’s Log: The Horny Mess that is Commander Riker

Let’s face it: William T. Riker is a mess. He’s one of my favorite characters on Star Trek: The Next Generation because of it. It’s not that I glorify his mess — far from it — but that the mess is emblematic of the writer’s room’s hodgepodge approach to the characterization of an Executive Officer intended to be a “man’s man”, while supposedly being every woman’s fantasy, while being…