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I fully believe that wesley just drops the wildest shit into conversations at the academy with no explanation bc he forgets how weird it is. you’re learning about diplomacy and the philosophical basis for different justice systems and during the small group debate he mentions offhandedly that he got the death penalty once when he was fifteen and keeps moving like that’s an experience everyone has had. youre talking about warp equations and he says that he accidentally trapped his mother in a parallel dimension once. typical friday night occurrence. apparently commander data (the subject of at least a third of your artificial intelligence lectures and definitely more of an abstract concept to you than anything else) is not only a close personal friend of his, but also had a secret brother and that brother once almost killed wesley. thats just how these things go. you think one time he said something about literally dying and you just. you don’t ask. and the thing is, people tell stories at the academy, sure; first year cadets especially love to talk themselves up to try to prove their merit, but that’s usually a way bigger production, and if he’s lying, he’s the most convincing liar you’ve ever heard. maybe you like him well enough because he’s pretty nice and will offer to help with homework and everything, but make no mistake, he still is a Deeply Weird Kid.
“Bullshit you know Data.”
“I’m chatting to him tonight, would you like to meet him?”
The next day:
“I got to talk to Data!” “No way, how?” “Wesley wasn’t talking shit.”
Hi mr Wheaton! Big big fan of yours, especially in next gen. I know it isn’t exactly fun to be an actor, but it always looks like so much fun when you’re messing around with switches and dials on the enterprise. Was it actually? Did you have to press actual scripted buttons or were the directors just like “press whatever button you’d like just look serious and determined”?
I talked about this with someone from Discovery for Ready Room, and I was thrilled to find out that their bridge crew does the same thing I did: we made up sequences for different things we did regularly, like impulse, warp, emit an inverse neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly, and whenever the script called for us to do whatever the thing was, we used the same sequence each time.
So it isn’t official, as far as I know. I never read a script that said WESLEY does whatever with the fake buttons in exactly this way. But I sat at a CONN console sometime in the last decade or so, put my hands on it, and without even thinking about it, let my hands and fingers take us to warp, then drop us back into impulse, before settling into a standard orbit. I hadn’t done it in twenty years, and the muscle memory was all there. It was great.
Tng episode concept: Wesley gets a crush on a Klingon girl that’s staying on the ship for like, a week. Somebody mildly important like a general or something’s daughter. We get to see Worf’s Courtship Advice™ in motion
Klingon girl comes onboard with her mildly important dad for like, whatever the A plot of this is reasons. Wesley just immediately goes up to Worf like “Worf Help” so Worf’s like “Here’s What You Need To Do.”
Wesley is overthinking it so hard. He’s like “but what if she throws something at me and I don’t get out of the way because my reflexes are too slow and then I look stupid” and Worf’s just like “Then You Get Back Up And Keep Reading.” “But what if I’m unconscious?” “Then I Will Call Your Mother And Bring You To Sickbay”
Meanwhile Girl is just like, finding it endearing how hard Wesley’s trying. He’s reciting whatever he came up with and Worf’s like 👍 at him from across the room and she’s just like, giggling. At how Incredibly, Visibly Nervous Wesley is. Which isn’t unreasonable because Worf made it sound like he would be under fucking attack
So anyway Girl is just like “hehe.. U tremble in fear before me :3” Wesley. Voice cracking. Goes “is that bad?” She’s like “it’s cute :^)” he gets a kiss on the cheek and then she has to leave shortly after bc our 45 minutes are up
In the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation titled “Manhunt”, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and Lieutenant Worf (Michael Dorn) are having a conversation where Wesley admits to thinking that Worf looked strange, but coming to slowly believe that he is “handsome for a Klingon.”
What most people don’t realize is tat this conversation actually happened between Wheaton and Dorn on set, only instead of “Klingon” Wheaton said “black person.” Dorn was so horrified that he forced Wheaton to re-ennact their conversation in the episode to punish the kid for being such a horrible, horrible racist [Source: Netflix Deluxe Subscriber Special Features]
This is absolutely not true. This is completely made up, and I’m pretty furious that anyone would make such a claim.
