How much does Wesley owe Picard?

[Timewalker]

Just look at what happened in "Q Who".

To be sure, Ensign Gomez made a complete tit of herself (fnar fnar!) by spilling coffee all over Cap'n Baldy, but imagine if she'd tripped and it went down the warp core instead?

It was hot chocolate, if I remember correctly.

True, and I am sure that difference made it perfectly safe by comparison.

Depending on whether or not it contained milk, cream, or an addition of peppermint, vanilla, or raspberry flavoring, it may very well have been much safer than coffee.

 

[Lance]

Fair point.

Would Wesley have ever been rebel enough to drink hot chocolate in engineering while crunching numbers with Geordi about the higher densities of a warp field manifold?

I bet he's more of a iced tea fellow.

 

[JD5000]

If Wesley has too much sugar he gets all wound up and can't be put down for his nap.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

I forgot about the Edo-God thing.

Wesley owes Picard for saving his life once... but he more than paid Picard back by saving the Enterprise 22,363 times. Not counting that one time Chief Engineer MacDougal accidentally sat her morning coffee too close to the intermix chamber and nearly caused a warp core meltdown when it spilled everywhere (coffee related mishaps are a common mistake in engineering aboard 1701-D ).

One would think that it would take more than a misplaced coffee cup to blow up a ship like Enterprise.

Just look at what happened in "Q Who".

To be sure, Ensign Gomez made a complete tit of herself (fnar fnar!) by spilling coffee all over Cap'n Baldy, but imagine if she'd tripped and it went down the warp core instead?

It wasn't damage from the Klingon battle that did the ship in in "Generations". No, it was Geordi celebrating the win with a Mocha Latte, and accidentally causing a coolant leak with it. That stuff goes through stuff worse than acid.

Blame the Utopia Planetia engineers for installing a replicator right there in the engine room...

Well, at least they have the good sense to not smoke at all in this century, unless it's a holodeck simulation, in which case the smoke should be harmless, shouldn't it?

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

It was hot chocolate, if I remember correctly.

True, and I am sure that difference made it perfectly safe by comparison.

Depending on whether or not it contained milk, cream, or an addition of peppermint, vanilla, or raspberry flavoring, it may very well have been much safer than coffee.

I hear Wes's lactose intolerant though...

 

[Lance]

If Wesley has too much sugar he gets all wound up and can't be put down for his nap.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

If Wesley has too much sugar he gets all wound up and can't be put down for his nap.

Hey, that's ageist!!!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Picard owes Wesley his life, on multiple occasions. Wesley owes Picard nothing. Picard forced him down the route of a Starfleet officer after misinterpreting The Travellers observations that Wesley could be a Mozart or Einstein. Picard was responsible for Wesley wasting six years of his life by pursuing the wrong path.

Wow, reading this makes me wonder whether we've watched the same shows. I never had the sense that Picard forced Wesley into Starfleet. And education is rarely (if ever) a total waste, even if one later changes career directions.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Picard owes Wesley his life, on multiple occasions. Wesley owes Picard nothing. Picard forced him down the route of a Starfleet officer after misinterpreting The Travellers observations that Wesley could be a Mozart or Einstein. Picard was responsible for Wesley wasting six years of his life by pursuing the wrong path.

Wow, reading this makes me wonder whether we've watched the same shows. I never had the sense that Picard forced Wesley into Starfleet. And education is rarely (if ever) a total waste, even if one later changes career directions.

That depends. If you learn how to lay bricks or do Karate, I doubt it''ll help you much if you later choose a career as a violinist, in fact it could even be a serious hindrance.

 

[Makarov]

Are you guys forgetting that Picard is the reason Wesley's dad died. He does owe Picard for cleaning up his mess with the nanites... which might have become a new kind of Borg down the road. Nice job Wesley.

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

Are you guys forgetting that Picard is the reason Wesley's dad died. He does owe Picard for cleaning up his mess with the nanites... which might have become a new kind of Borg down the road. Nice job Wesley.

I am not sure it's cleaned up. The nanites evolved "beyond" Enterprise in a matter of days. That is from the mechanical equivalent of bacteria to twenty-fourth century man in a matter of days!!! It took us about two billion years to do the same, if they have continued their evolution they must be equivalent to the Q now or even bigger. If they decide to play with us the way we played with them, there is nothing we can do about it, the Q couldn't even protect us if they wanted to. Nice job Wesley, indeed!