Yeah I think Wesley just being a teenager who is smart and wanting to get into Starfleet would have worked just fine.CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:52 amI said this like 10 years ago to a friend of mine but I think it still holds true and that's Wesley doesn't actually NEED to be a genius if he's a cadet or Starfleet Ensign. He's cool enough as a person on a starship as is. There's lots of stories you can do with someone trying to impress the bosses around you and wondering what's going on.McAvoy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:18 am He was written better after Season 2. Anything written in the first two seasons were not exactly that good with a few exceptions.
He ended up in alot of episodes to be a glorified extra once he had the uniform.
I honestly have no idea how he could be written better. But at least toning down his 'genius' would have been a start. Maybe having the Traveler in one or two more episodes could have been better. Or not.
Nog and Jake Sisko had more meat to contend with but as we saw with "The First Duty" there's nothing wrong with Will's acting.
I can already imagine a "Siege" story like the one they did with Jake where Wes realizes, "OMG, STARFLEET IS DANGEROUS!"
Like his first time saving the ship in Naked Now could have been that he is young and the virus doesn't work on him. So he has to rely on rudimentary skills he has along with the 'drunk' Starfleet officers around him to save the ship.
Could end it with Wesley sweating it as everyone is of no use anymore and he has a choice of blue or red isolinesef chips. Which one. Blue or red. Go hard on that trope.
