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Was he really that bad for most if it though? If we ignore the cluster of bad Wesley episodes that only happened because of the 1988 writers' strike?
by LukeShu 6y ago
Was he really that bad for most if it though? If we ignore the cluster of bad Wesley episodes that only happened because of the 1988 writers' strike?
- ghaff 6y agoBoth TNG and DS9 had characters inserted to appeal to younger audiences that were mostly annoying/irrelevant to older ones. (DS9 at least had the excuse of being set on a space station.) If the producers weren't thinking about demographics, they wouldn't have been there. The original series wasn't immune either.
- LukeShu 6y agoSure, there's playing demographics, and then there's inserting "the most egregious Mary Sue of all time". I don't think anyone considers Jake Sisko or Nog to be on the level of Wesley Crusher.
- ghaff 6y agoNot really. Although I could have generally lived with a lower presence on DS9. (But it made at least more sense in the context than TNG.)
- Arrath 6y agoYeah I would have to agree. Nog especially, most Mary Sue's don't end up with prosthetics and PTSD.
- iso1631 6y agoActor who played Nog was 24 when DS9 started. Outside of a few very specific episodes mainly based around with his father or Nog, Jake was as boring as hell