Just like how James Kirk from ST:TOS has been turned in general perception into this weird womanizer who slept with every green skinned alien babe [1], so is al

Just like how James Kirk from ST:TOS has been turned in general perception into this weird womanizer who slept with every green skinned alien babe [1], so is all the "supplementary" cultural material erasing important bits like that, especially when such bits are less "in your face" than (keeping to Disney) Merida from Brave. [1] the actual horndog of the main crew was McCoy, and Picard was rabble-rouser and notorious flirt in his youth, enough that his replacement heart happened due to bar fight