So on the entire planet...

[Gary Sebben]

I think the whole ep should fall under diplomatic immunity. It does seem unfair to us regular people, but civilization doesn't fall because of it.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Given the instant death penalty, you'd think this would be something that they'd mention to visitors right off the bat. Then again, I seem to think that about at least half of the 'strange alien customs our crew unknowingly violates' that wind up driving the plots of episodes...

 

[Timo]

But the system had supposedly eradicated all crime from the planet centuries ago. These people were so mortally afraid of doing wrong, and had been for generations, that they could not imagine anybody actually breaking their laws. Hence no need to mention the punishment, which hadn't been meted out in ages anyway.

The laws were probably perfectly ordinary, as Yar confirmed. The underlying assumptions of those laws just weren't written down in the same place as the content of the laws, to the detriment of our heroes...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Praetor]

Man, how did I know this episode was about "Justice" without looking at the OP.

 

[Trekker4747]

See, I just say Wesley should've been acting like less of a doofus.

 

[Praetor]

I tend to agree, and I can sum it up with one line:

"We're with Starfleet. We don't lie."

 

[Anwar]

Guys come on, he was a 14 year old kid surrounded by guys he saw as heroic explorer/patriot types and his father was also one. Any 14 year old in that position would say something like that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Guys come on, he was a 14 year old kid surrounded by guys he saw as heroic explorer/patriot types and his father was also one. Any 14 year old in that position would say something like that.

I expect more from a 14 year old in the type of future depicted in TNG.



"Uhh... there are some games I don't know how to play yet."


And because it's a good, funny, relevant LINK.

 

[Praetor]

Where were the Edo love instructors?

 

[Anwar]

With Riker, likely.

 

[Praetor]

Zing!

 

[Amaris]

The guys can play football. If I were Wesley I'd be showing the girl some of the games she doesn't know yet. I mean for the love of GOD!


J.

 

[Trilliam]

Guys come on, he was a 14 year old kid surrounded by guys he saw as heroic explorer/patriot types and his father was also one. Any 14 year old in that position would say something like that.

I expect more from a 14 year old in the type of future depicted in TNG.



"Uhh... there are some games I don't know how to play yet."


And because it's a good, funny, relevant LINK.

A 14yo boy, is a 14yo boy, is a 14yo boy. Also (having raised 3 sons,) not all boys develop at the pace (even brothers). Wesley's 14yo was appropriate for a 14yo. Anyone expecting anything else, either has faulty memories or precocious puberty .

 

[Trekker4747]

A 14yo boy, is a 14yo boy, is a 14yo boy. Also (having raised 3 sons,) not all boys develop at the pace (even brothers). Wesley's 14yo was appropriate for a 14yo. Anyone expecting anything else, either has faulty memories or precocious puberty .

There's a world of difference between a 14yo boy on the 21st century and one from the 18th. I suspect sometime between now and 2364 that 14yo boys would be more mature at that age. Or at the very least less of a weenie.

Wesley was treated very, very poorly in TNG's first couple of seasons. Wesley was much, much better once TNG's big change happened in S3.