I always found her interactions with Picard downright disturbing. Picard all but SHOUTS that he's not interested in pursuing her, and in spite of her telepathy, she just never respects his wishes.

I've grown to appreciate Lwaxana more in the years since, but holy shit that woman was physically incapable of taking NO for an answer.

Her interactions with Timicin (from the TNG episode Half a Life) were so refreshing because Timicin actually wanted to spend time with her! They got to bounce off each other in unique and interesting ways, even in their disagreements, and even through Timicin's pain of having failed his people. Even when the two loudly clashed, there was always the sincere undertone that they wanted to be together. She forced Timicin to confront his culture in a very real, very raw way, and ask which parts were really worth preserving and which were better left behind. But that newfound sense of progressivism only alienated him from his family, and from the people he was working so hard to save.

Seriously, Half a Life is a criminally under rated episode and L'waxana plays an irreplaceably critical role in it. So now that I've pointed out where I enjoyed her inclusion, allow me to rant a while about what I loathe about her.

Compared to her time with Timicin, whenever she shares a room with Picard he looks physically ill. She reads his mind and then loudly implies the things he privately thinks about her, which is just kinda fucked from a privacy perspective. But what's worse is that Picard never pursues her back. Even though he might've found L'waxana attractive, he never seems to have acted upon it, or intended to act upon it. But L'waxana cannot take no for an answer, so she just bulldozes through the fact that Picard's not interested and tries getting into his pants over and over again, across multiple episodes. What Picard wants gets overturned in favor of what L'waxana wants, and if it were an intentional role reversal of creepy dudes bulldozing through an unreceptive woman saying no, I'd have no complaints. But it's almost always played for laughs!

I hate it. I really, really hate it. Maybe I'm just too Ace to get the appeal, but if something like that happened to me, if someone disrespected my boundaries that severely and that repeatedly, I'd tell that person to fuck off and stay the hell away me!

But that's just the way I've always read their interactions. I'm actually very curious how other people came away with much more innocent and fun reads of their interactions. How would you personally describe her interactions with Picard?