How would you make a good Wesley finale?

[BillJ]

Blown out an airlock...

 

[at Quark's]

It was almost ok, the way it was. I would just have added a single short line in the final goodbye scene for the Traveler:

CRUSHER: Now you be sure and dress warmly on those other planes of existence.
WESLEY: I will. Bye, Mom.
TRAVELER: You won't need to worry about clothing, my boy. Heh heh.
CRUSHER: Goodbye.
PICARD: Energise.

 

[Summer Solstice]

I really enjoyed The First Duty. I can see exactly how Wesley ended up in that situation. I think we did need to hear about what happened to Wesley after that as it would be weird if Dr Crusher never mentioned him and Picard was invested in Wesley's Starfleet career. I liked that in Journey's End Wesley knew Starfleet wasn't the right path for him and he wanted to do something else, but it might have worked better if he had already decided what he wanted to do (like how Jake knew he wanted to be a writer) and was just having difficulty telling his mum and her friends.

In Journey's End Wesley has been trying to defend the Native Americans but then the Traveller tells him not to and he decides not to. It felt like he very suddenly decided he didn't care.

Or...and maybe the episode did do this and I've forgotten, in which case I apologize...they could have gone the route where Wesley's first painful lesson as a quasi-Traveler is that he can't interfere with every decision he disagrees with.

SG-1 would kind of go that route with Daniel Jackson, but I believe TNG would have pre-dated it?

That would have been interesting. I think like Daniel, Wesley wouldn't have been able to stop himself interfering at some point...

 

[DonIago]

I'm probably being too ambitious here, but if it's left as a specifically open-ended qustion as to whether Wesley will be able to keep himself from interfering, that could have been a plot hook for a film. Or it could have just been left as a question the show left open for the audience.

 

[Legate Duhmar]

Wesley should have just gone to Starfleet Academy, graduated early to get assinged to some Miranda class scow and become a bitter wheelchair bound cripple after getting blasted by an exploding console during the battle Wolf 359. Then he would blame Picard/Locutus for his disability, become addicted to syntohol and waste his time playing dabo and unsuccessfully pursung shallow relationships with waitresses and fellow addicts in some awful spaceport controlled by the Orion Syndicate.

 

[TroiFan4ever]

Honestly, I was pretty happy with "Journey's End" as it was but I would've made it more Wesley-focused. Especially considering this was a Season 7 episode, a season that was wrapping up all the characters' family-centered storylines since this was the finale season for TNG. I'm not saying it had to be entirely about him but a little more screentime couldn't hurt. Though, some might argue that it probably could given his appearance in "Parallels".

I kind of like how the next time we see Wesley after this episode is in the film Star Trek: Nemesis.

Wesley should have just gone to Starfleet Academy, graduated early to get assinged to some Miranda class scow and become a bitter wheelchair bound cripple after getting blasted by an exploding console during the battle Wolf 359. Then he would blame Picard/Locutus for his disability, become addicted to syntohol and waste his time playing dabo and unsuccessfully pursung shallow relationships with waitresses and fellow addicts in some awful spaceport controlled by the Orion Syndicate.

LMBO! This made me laugh pretty hard

 

[Phoenix219]

I'd have an episode where it turned out all of Wes' super aptitude that the Traveler admired so much was from a failed attempt by the Cytherians to do what they accomplished successfully with Barclay. Eventually it wore off and he became a normal, competent person. could have had a decent story about what it would feel like to lose genius after having it for an extended amount of time. (thinking of the Robery Silverberg novel Dying Inside where a secret telepath copes with losing his powers as he ages, alone).

Interesting. Flowers for Wesley? Lol.

 

[Oddish]

Here is a thought... don't bother with Journey's End at all. Just stick some gray temples and a beard on him and put him on the bridge of the tri-nacelle Enterprise D as either the captain or first officer. He shows up with Riker. Beverly not only has to deal with losing her ship, but with having her own kid help save her bacon.

 

[Mondragon]

Shot of old man Wesley bringing a group of children onto a future Enterprise.
They hesitate before stepping out of the lift and on to the bridge. One asks: are we allowed?
Wesley gestures - make it so.

The end.

 

[Orphalesion]

Shot of old man Wesley bringing a group of children onto a future Enterprise.
They hesitate before stepping out of the lift. One asks: are we allowed?
Wesley gestures - make it so.

The end.

Awwww that's actually adorable.

 

[gakelly]

It could go really dark and be about the Traveler trapping him in some other higher plane of existence. Wesley would have to spend eternity with the creep kind of like the Alternative Factor

 

[JesterFace]

What if 'ST - Picard' would bring back Wesley?
EDIT - this was already proposed in another thread I went to after this one....

 

[Oddish]

Have Andrew Divoff briefly hold him hostage until they release him out of respect for his father.........even if it has been done before.

After he distributes bottles of his "special mouthwash" to all the teens on the Enterprise, of course.