What’s with the hate Wesley gets? I didn’t find his character to be detestable. At least not as much as the ferengi ds9 kid.
Both Wesley and Nog started out with rough writing. Once their characters build out, they improve. Nog moreso, being part of a serialized show.
Having watched TNG without being influenced by the community. I agree that his character starts pretty obnoxious, but I always got the sense that the point of his character was that his inclusion on the ship as a kid raised by this future world was just as “alien” as Data or Worf. Then again, it was also obvious that he occasionally got completely brain bonked for some episodes in order to make him the naive child of the group.
That’s an excellent question. I wonder if it has something to do with your age when you first saw the series, or maybe the problem that adult writers tend to not write kids very well. I bet at least part of it is that Picard himself treats Wesley pretty poorly in several episodes. Oh, and the fact that he solves the problem of the week ludicrously easily a couple of times, in a Gary Stu sort of way.
I was pretty sick the first time I saw this episode as a teen - all I really remember is they stepped onscreen in those outfits and I spent the next five minutes laughing so hard I started coughing up blood then passed out. My god, the costume design on this one still brings a tear to my eye, what were they thinking.
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I read Wonderwall and assumed they were dropping some Oasis.
Somethings certainly dropped. It’s only by the grace of television censors and a thin veneer of fabric we don’t see for certain what.
“Gene Roddenberry was a sex pest for making women wear miniskirts.”
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Planet moose knuckle
I am wheezing, thank you for this.
I grew up watching TNG with my dad. He had the same reaction. Well, minus the blood.
I had the exact same reaction except none of the laughing and all the blood.
That’s the same episode Wesley was encouraged to go run off and play with the other “children” with hair on their chests.
What is this image from?
Star Trek Online
Oh, okay thanks!
Np.
I mean, it’s possible they also made a live action movie out of the same plot, but I’m not sure. Haven’t come across it so far, though Axanar and Renegades show up from time to time.
Dark Matter is how you get evil Wesley.
(Wil Wheaton played an evil space tech bro.)
Wait, I recognize Milly Vanilly, but who’s the other girl smirking? I don’t remember her.
Mirror Leeta
Ahhhhh. I didn’t connect the dots. Thank you
it’s going to be very hard to romance Beverly while she’s grieving
No, this cannot stand!
When they kill him, will they use the Wesley Crusher?
Would that be kinslaying?
Im on Season 6 of my once a decade rewatch. They’ve still not hooked up. Jean Luc is running around with Vash. Bev had her ambassador until the trill half died. Meanwhile, these guys have breakfast together, dance around the possibility of a together, and that is all.
They definitely hook up somewhere around the time this occurs:
Jack Crusher being the result. No explanation as to why a kid in his early 20’s looks like he’s pushing 35 by Picard season 3.
I just realized that this episode is basically the more dramatic (and more horny) version of that Parks & Rec episode with Fred Armisen.
Straight to lethal injection. No trial, no nothing. We have the best flower beds. Because of lethal injection.
Is it the color-grading, or is that man VERY sunburned?
Just saw it now for the first time. I think he was sunburned.
