Star Trek TNG versus Me: Which matured more in 7 years?

I used to be a big TNG fan. I dreamed one day when I can be like William Riker, flirting with my co-worker all day, or like La Forge, always coming up with crazy ideas with little regard to physical laws, or when I'm old, be like Jean-Luc Picard and take a gigatic star ship into the unknown space, or even like Data, but not for reasons you'd imagine.

Okay it was his ability to control every muscle in his body. I mean EVERY muscle. It can be very, very useful under some circumstances.

But I only really watched the last two seasons, because for some reason I decided to buy the DVDs in reverse order. Not all episodes were great, but most of them made sense.

Last week I downloaded the entire first season, and I found myself very annoyed by the (lack of) logics in the plots. And judging from her performance on the Enterprise in the first few episodes, Bev Crusher has to be the worse medical chief, too. She failed to wear protective clothing when in contact with a patient KNOWN to have contracted some mysterious illness on a strange planet. After the patient (La Forge, by the way) started acting strangely, she left him unconstrained in an unlocked room.

If I were Picard I'd have ordered her ejected out of the star ship at once.

Which left me think, it was around 5 or 6 years ago when I was a really big fan of TNG. I'd like to think I'm past the rapid changing days of adolescence, and I don't think I've changed that much over the past 5 or 6 years. Yet when I watch the first season of TNG now I think it is the most childish thing. It is more likely then, that the writers for TNG grew better at incorporating logic and common sense into their work. Unfortunately none of that seemed to have carried into the last Star Trek Enterprise series, or even DS9 for that matter, which is why I don't follow them.