wesley crusher should be punched in the face.

[ALF]

Even Wil Wheaton's gone on the record saying he'd like to kick Wesley's ass.

Now that would be something to see.
Maybe JJ can set it up for Trek 2011?

 

[Anji]

Sorry guys, I don't understand where all this Wesley bashing comes from. Wesley was a kid and those of us who have them know kids are not annoying...they're just being kids.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

punching wesley in the face is to nice, me personally I would take a phaser shove it in his mouth and fire it

Writers never should have had the charater created... to many shows trying to get the "kid vote" by having a smart kid/teen working along side the parental types

It certainly didn't work with me! I was 12 when TNG premiered and I was pissed! I spent the first twelve years of my life worshipping at the altar of Kirk. Then I turn on TNG and what do I get? A kid so square he made me look cool! I was a 12 year old Trekker!

That ain't cool!

So they sinned first by making Wesley a dork and then a second time by casting the wrong actor from Stand By Me.

At the time I thought that Wil Wheaton was the one who played the fat kid in that movie. I figured if the Wesley character got too boring he could pull up his shirt and dance the Truffle Shuffle or something. Unfortunately Wil Wheaton wasn't equipped for that particular dance.

Too bad. Jerry O'Connell would have been much cooler than dorky Wes Wheaton.

They sinned a third time when they let the dork, skinny Wesley save the ship time and time again at the expense of all the adults! If this had been Kirk's ship he would have sent Wesley to bed without his ice cream and saved the ship with the help of Spock, Bones and Scotty. He didn't need a fucking infant saving his bacon!

There was just no way that a 12 year old boy was gonna like the whiney momma's boy that was Wesley Crusher. He was a complete misfire of the character.

Funny thing is that it took a Trek novel to make me see what kind of possibility the character had that went unutilized for the length of the series. Strike Zone by Peter David presented Wes as a flawed genius who had great gifts but wasn't omnipotent. He had a friend who was dying of a degenerative illness and he struggled to find a way to cure him but... ...he failed. True, his friend was murdered but... It was clear he was doomed to failure from the start because he was just a boy with great gifts. He hadn't the experience or the training to cure his friend's illness. Just like he lacked the training and experience to save the Enterprise time and again. What the TNG writers failed to comprehend is that a long road that culminates in a coming of age is far more interesting than someone who has all the tools right out of the box.

The TNG writers took the lazy and far less interesting road when it came to Wesley Crusher.