Leave Wesley alone!
He’s alone now!
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 don’t know, it’s gonna be pretty hard to milk a rock, no matter how many nipples you got.
“Gene Roddenberry was a sex pest for making women wear miniskirts.”
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Don’t want to sound racist and I apologize if this is some kind of western face-blindness, but the miniskirt guy looks like an descendant of John Cho (Sulu).
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.
In early development, Dr Crusher originally had a daughter named Leslie Crusher. The point of that character wasn’t very well-defined before she was turned into a brilliant male wunderkind named Wesley by a man whose full name was Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. In other words, the point of the character was that an aging egomaniac wanted a self-insert character whose traits are that he’s special, he’s a genius, and that he’s frequently misunderstood and let down by all the dolts who surround him.
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
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It’s straight bonkers where they take this plot…
spoiler
In the Mirror Universe, the Terran Empire has regained it’s footing and a galactic power again, led by Admiral Leeta (which I’m still wrapping my head around since the Terran Empire was shown to be very xenophobic). A Terran strike force lead by by Marshall Janeway and a time displace Captain Tilly “Killy” launch a surprise attack on Jupiter Station in search of The Emperor’s Prize, which turns out to be Ilia. The Emperor is none other than Wesley who has used his immense intellect to ascend to the throne. He wanted Ilia to track down the mirror version of V’Ger; C’qer (pronounced Seeker, the ConQuERor VI probe. also referred to as The Other). Emperor Wesley plans to merge with The Other to ascend to godhood, and conquer the Prime universe. He starts by “digitizing” most of our solar system in the prime universe against a combined alliance of Starfleet, Klingons, the Romulan Republic, the Dominion, Cardassian Union, and some specific STO factions. Thanks to Ilia, V’Ger returns to the Sol System to aid, and you battle powered Wesley at the core until Bev gets in his head and talks him down. Then V’Ger & C’Qer, along with Ilia and Wesley go exploring and return all digitized planets and ships to normal space.
