He wasn’t my favorite character, but I always liked Wesley. He was just a brilliant but awkward kid. They handled his character poorly early on, but finally developed his character over time, and developed the other characters more (to a point where they would interact with him), which helped. At first, the other main characters were so prejudiced against him for his youth that they couldn’t accept that he really was a super genius who really did have valuable input.
At first, it was like if Einstein happened to be on your star-ship at age 14, and you just told him to shut up all the time. Always made me cringe, and really showed a social prejudice/flaw that still exists in the TNG era oh-so-enlightened Federation culture: Ageism.
He wasn’t my favorite character, but I always liked Wesley. He was just a brilliant but awkward kid. They handled his character poorly early on, but finally developed his character over time, and developed the other characters more (to a point where they would interact with him), which helped. At first, the other main characters were so prejudiced against him for his youth that they couldn’t accept that he really was a super genius who really did have valuable input.
At first, it was like if Einstein happened to be on your star-ship at age 14, and you just told him to shut up all the time. Always made me cringe, and really showed a social prejudice/flaw that still exists in the TNG era oh-so-enlightened Federation culture: Ageism.