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Wesley’s Biggest Mistake

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Oct 022011

It has always bothered me the way the character Wesley Crusher left Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Granted, it was pretty annoying to have a 15- or 16-year old kid come along and solve a problem that threatened to kill everyone – often a problem that Wesley had created himself (warp bubbles and nanites come to mind). But even the most devout Wesley hater would have to admit that he was a smart kid. He could handle a warp field the way Mozart handled a piano. To have him decide suddenly after 6 years that he didn’t even want one of the Admissions Registration Clerk Jobs available at StarFleet, much less something he was obviously good at, was just a waste of his abilities.

The really bizarre part was that the Traveller, who originally told Picard to encourage Wesley’s talents, is the one who had the least problem with Wesley chucking it all and hanging out with him.

So much for continuity.

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Wesley Crusher

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Jan 152011

Given the technology available in the 24th century, one wonders why StarFleet didn’t have some sort of online university that would have allowed Wesley Crusher to take his classes via subspace communication and not have to leave the Enterprise to attend classes.

Of course, on the other hand, it is generally not considered a bad thing that the Boy Wonder couldn’t attend an online university. Wesley Cursher quickly became the character that everyone loved to hate, largely because of his unique ability to rush in at the last minute and save the day when none of the adult crew members could solve whatever the problem of the week was… that is, when he wasn’t causing problems by breaking some planet’s laws or releasing nanites into the ship’s computer.

This character is hated so much that several years ago there was a usenet newsgroup called “alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die”.