They’re saying that the last Star Trek series to end without a Riker appearance was Star Trek: The Animated Series, which ended about 50 years ago.

There seems to be some confusion among the commentariat. Perhaps clarification is needed

Riker was a horndog. Half the 32nd century characters are probably his descendants.

At some point, you have to ask yourself about your own expectations for games (i.e. things we play to kill time for fun). We are entering into an environment socially now where everyone wants every single thing addressed according to their liking or articles get written like this. Had the devs/writers stopped to “more…