Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Last Outpost – TV Squad
[tag]Wil Wheaton[/tag] has taken to doing reviews of old [tag]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/tag] episodes. He’s only done a few so far, all from the first season, but they are very funny. A ton of pop-culture references make it even more fun to read.
While speaking as someone who played arguably the most hated hero character in sci-fi until [tag]Jar-Jar[/tag], he manages to skewer some of the stupid writing that plagued the show, particularly in its premier season.
Data says [tag]Ferengi[/tag] are like traders, and explains this with the most obvious contemporary reference: Yankee traders from 18th century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 400 year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you’re stuck in traffic on the freeway, and you say, “Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!”
The writing style is engaging, and I find myself agreeing completely with his take on the episodes. I hope he continues to post his thoughts.
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That’s funny. I always thought the episode that made everyone hate him was the episode in which everyone was drunk/diseased/crazy, and he was the only one who could figure out how to get the Enterprise out of the way of a giant rock…
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Jeff says:
February 24th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I was referring to the series as a whole in my title, not the individual episode. It’s very possible that that episode you describe was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but it’s obvious from Wil’s writing, and the show itself, that the writers had no clue what to do with Wesley or how to make him anything but annoying in almost any situation. That character was doomed from the start. Once the writers started getting some sense about them in the second season, the damage to Wesley was too great to fix in any meaningful way. It’s a shame, because he really could have been a great character, handled correctly. Periodically you get glimpses of that in later episodes.
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