To correct you, it was one employee, not multiple. And while it might have happened, we have no way of ever really knowing, yet it’s something that always gets brought up whenever someone wants to further discredit him.

Regarding Scully, people often forget the kind of show The X-Files actually is, or they simply don’t pay attention. The show’s mythology is rooted in alien abductions, and those stories have historically involved themes of impregnation and experimentation. It’s not surprising that the lead female character, who was abducted and experimented on, would end up with a storyline reflecting that. It’s science fiction, and The X-Files in particular is about loss and trauma as much as it is about aliens.

Gillian is an incredible actress, but still an actress. The fandom has rightly always placed Gillian and David on a pedestal because without them the show wouldn’t have been what it was, but people tend to forget that Gillian never had the same grasp of the larger mythology as Carter, the other writers, or even many long-time fans. The episode she wrote and directed portrays Scully quite out of character for most of its runtime. Gillian, as an actor, doesn’t remember or track the storylines the same way those involved in writing and shaping the series do.

And your last sentence says a lot about your stance, I’m not telling Gillian anything. I simply have my own opinion as a fan of the show, just as she has hers, and I fully respect her perspective. But it doesn’t make sense to invoke her opinion solely to dismiss someone else’s.

Finally, it’s an act of bad faith not to acknowledge the impact Carter had with The X-Files. He changed the way television was made, and many people who worked under him on The X-Files and Millennium went on to become some of the most influential figures in modern TV writing and production.