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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Wesley Crusher isn’t that bad of a character, and while he is kind of obnoxious and insufferable early on, Wil Wheaton never should have been blamed for that. The problem is with Eugene Wesley Roddenberry shoehorning a highly idealized self-insert character into the show, overriding the writers every time they tried to prevent Wesley from being written as a messiah character, and using his executive power to rewrite scripts so the wonderful, smart, kind, brilliant, handsome, young Gene Wesley saves the day by being amazing. You can’t blame a character or an actor for bad writing and a weird old man’s desire to groom a protégé.














  • Here’s five of my favorites, especially because most of them provide some character lore/development that enhances watching the movies:

    The Corbomite Maneuver - Kirk’s captaincy style
    Amok Time - Spock lore
    Journey to Babel - fun, ethical dilemma episode, introduces Sarek
    Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - moral lesson episode, introduces the self-destruct, and I’ve found that modern viewers are fascinated by the fact that racism has become alien and confusing to future humans
    The Galileo Seven - character drama, features Spock making survival choices that weigh the needs of the many against the needs of the few