Star Trek Is Making Up For How TNG “Did Wesley Crusher Wrong,” Says Executive Producer

Star Trek: Prodigy

Summary

Star Trek : Prodigycreators and executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman set out to right the wrongsStar Trek : The Next Generationinflicted on Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) . Wesley was a derided part ofTNG , and the boy champion who often saved the USS Enterprise - D did n’t endear himself to viewers at the time , nor was Crusher ’s character best served byTNG ’s writers . InStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , however , Wesley Crusher is the ' original prodigy’who is constitutional to the story of repairing the brokenStar Trektimelines . Wesley achieves his full potential as a Traveler and , as aStar Trek bequest character fans have hold off decades to see treat the right way inStar Trek .

In an interview withTrekMovieaboutStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 , Kevin and Dan Hageman talk about how bringing in Wesley Crusher allowed the enliven series to"be at the grownup table"and tie even more directly into the greaterStar Trekcanon . Dan Hageman specifically speak about the unsatisfying endingStar Trek : The Next Generationgave Wesley , and howStar Trek : Prodigyseason 2 is " pee up for it . “Read Dan ’s quote below :

Dan Hageman : I would say they did Wesley Crusher wrong – how they finished Wesley Crusher on TNG – and we are making up for it . TNG just had him stop the frame and take the air off and never gave him any cloture . We ’re take that baton and doing something with it .

Wesley Crusher lives up to being a Traveler , and Wes reveal he ’s visited - and named - the alternating Kelvin realism of J.J. Abrams ' Star Trek flick .

Why Wesley Crusher’s Star Trek: TNG Ending Was Unsatisfying

Star Trek: Prodigy is doing Wesley Crusher right

WhenWil Wheaton leftStar Trek : The Next Generation , Wesley Crusher ’s character was already a riotous Starfleet Cadet who took part in the cover charge - up of a classmate ’s end . Wesley returned inTNGseason 7 to say adieu to the show as he accepted a greater cosmic fate as one of the Travelers . However , interview ( and Wil Wheaton himself ) wondered for over 30 years what Wesley did as a Traveler . Star Trek : Prodigyseason 2 at last delivered on Wesley Crusher ’s promise as a Traveler , and as a reference .

Wil Wheaton cameoed as Wesley Crusher , who was inexplicably back in a Starfleet uniform , inStar Trek : Nemesis .

Wesley Crusher did n’t quite work as the USS Enterprise - D ’s resident boy genius , nor did he click as a penis of Starfleet , which made hisStar Trek : The Next Generationtenure unsatisfying . Yet decades passing can do wonders , specially whenStar Trek : Prodigy ’s Kevin and Dan Hageman had the dream to present the full interlingual rendition of Wesley CrusherStar Trekhas ever seen . Motormouthed and scatterbrained , but ingenious and grand , Star Trek : Prodigyseason 2 ’s Wesley Crusher does make up for his mistreatment byStar Trek : The Next genesis , and it ’s obvious Wil Wheaton truly bask playing Wesley again .