Riker is a changling, he's become the conservative cowardly one, and just does dumb things.
I really hate the insistence on every scene being in the dark,
I think its kinda funny that they put the two hammiest terrible actors together with Raffi and Worf. Its almost like or Freaking Corn Flakes and Picard can act, lets not pollute that.
Saying that the Captain was just getting to be good and they replaced him with CornFlakes is kinda wrong. Like I said this was actually a good Captain all along and Pikard and Riker were the terrible Star Fleet Officers.