Wesley in Uniform in Nemesis

[Peach Wookiee]

I had a thought about that... Maybe he just didn't belong at Starfleet Academy. I remember him saying, "I've done everything everyone has asked of me and more." When he got upset, that was his refrain. And that seems to be a hint that maybe he thought he was just supposed to join. Then Nick Locarno happened.

 

[Shon T'Hara]

I had a thought about that... Maybe he just didn't belong at Starfleet Academy. I remember him saying, "I've done everything everyone has asked of me and more." When he got upset, that was his refrain. And that seems to be a hint that maybe he thought he was just supposed to join. Then Nick Locarno happened.

I always got the impression that he grew up in the shadow of his father, and he thought the only way to please his mother (who, moving from ship to ship, starbase to starbase, was the only constant in his life) was to sign up for Starfleet. But once he got out from under her thumb, he realized it wasn't his thing. Notice how upset Beverly gets when she finds out Wes is leaving the Academy.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I did mention that I thought Journey's End jumped the shark, right? The whole, gee, I can stop time thing, and now it looks like I can roam the astral planes with Q, all by myself, deal? That was inexcusably over the top.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I had a thought about that... Maybe he just didn't belong at Starfleet Academy. I remember him saying, "I've done everything everyone has asked of me and more." When he got upset, that was his refrain. And that seems to be a hint that maybe he thought he was just supposed to join. Then Nick Locarno happened.

I always got the impression that he grew up in the shadow of his father, and he thought the only way to please his mother (who, moving from ship to ship, starbase to starbase, was the only constant in his life) was to sign up for Starfleet. But once he got out from under her thumb, he realized it wasn't his thing. Notice how upset Beverly gets when she finds out Wes is leaving the Academy.

I did. And she was understandably in shock, because all he'd said was that he wanted that life. Perhaps she didn't see the signs. I speak from some experience in this. It was a shock to people when I changed majors.

 

[RyuRoots]

I had a thought about that... Maybe he just didn't belong at Starfleet Academy. I remember him saying, "I've done everything everyone has asked of me and more." When he got upset, that was his refrain. And that seems to be a hint that maybe he thought he was just supposed to join. Then Nick Locarno happened.

I always got the impression that he grew up in the shadow of his father, and he thought the only way to please his mother (who, moving from ship to ship, starbase to starbase, was the only constant in his life) was to sign up for Starfleet. But once he got out from under her thumb, he realized it wasn't his thing. Notice how upset Beverly gets when she finds out Wes is leaving the Academy.

She got upset because he was throwing away his future for no reason. She never pushed him towards it. In fact, Beverly worried that Wes wasn't enjoying his youth enough while he had it. Wes was always shown to be genuinely, personally interested in Starfleet, and it's retconning at its worst to bring up the stuff they did in Journey's End out of nowhere like they did.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I don't know... I guess it was retconning at its worst for me, then...

 

[Mr Silver]

I see Wesley's reappareance as him realising that being in Starfleet is where he can be most useful. I'm under the impression that the Traveller convinced him of his virtuoisity and Wesley realised that returning to the 'Real World', so to speak, would be where he could be most useful.

I think all in all, Starfleet was where Wesley was meant to be. He just needed to realise that on his own terms and not under the terms of Beverley or Picard. The Traveller took him on travels to show him his potential, not mould him into some superhuman.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

I did mention that I thought Journey's End jumped the shark, right? The whole, gee, I can stop time thing, and now it looks like I can roam the astral planes with Q, all by myself, deal? That was inexcusably over the top.

Lucky for the series, it's shark-jumping moment was a stone's throw away from the finale, eh?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Lucky for the series, it's shark-jumping moment was a stone's throw away from the finale, eh?

Quite!