“If you really hated Wesley already, it was unlikely that this episode would change your mind at all, but if you were looking for a glimmer of evidence that he wouldn't be a total weenie for the whole series, there was just enough here to get your hopes up before we dashed them to hell in season two.” ---TV Squad.com

This alludes to the problems of Wesley perfectly. Wesley was written as a total weenie! What's worse; he was a weenie that was given the helm of the whole bloody starship! "Picard, can I drive the ship? Pleeease?" Madness! To add injury to insult: the series even tried to imply that Wesley was a...superhero?!? Yep! He can bend space or some other kind of cheap FX trick: who stayed awake long enough to figure that episode out? Oh, and let's not forget that wacky alien "Traveler" who said that Wesley was to Starfleet what Mozart was to music. Really...? Wesley?!?

The sad fate of Wesley was worse or better than others on this list; depending on your perspective. On the one hand he didn't die; on the other hand, someone clearly wanted to make sure that Wesley would not and "could not" be in the movies! In a final-season episode, Wesley would reunite with The Traveler, who changes his tune about Wesley quickly, and quite ridiculously. Supposedly, Wesley isn't the Mozart of Starfleet; he's the Mozart of Native Americans From Outer Space. Yes; seriously. So with a cheap FX trick, Wes and Traveler are gone. Where did they go? Few can say, and fewer even care. I doubt even Wil Wheton cares what happened to Wesley by this point.

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