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A review of the new Stark Trek
If you’re of a certain age or like science fiction, you know of Wesley Crusher. He was the genius-level teenager on the 1980s “Star Trek: The Next Generation” reboot, a rather obvious attempt by the franchise to appeal to its own next generation. This “Star Trek” was so cool, it even had room for kids like us! You may also know of Wheaton because of his gorgeous performance at age 14 as Gordie in Rob Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age film “Stand by Me.” The show couldn’t have cast a more talented and authentic kid.
But Wesley was a complete disaster. While his character was apparently modeled on the young Gene Roddenberry, the beloved creator of “Star Trek,” the writers leaned into all the things that would make him the least likable and most problematic for audiences—the fact that he didn’t fit in, have friends or act like a normal kid; his desperate insecurity; and worst of all, the fact that he was so much smarter than everyone else.
“Star Trek” has been around for almost 60 years. And while it has presented itself as a show about exploring strange new worlds, at its heart it has always been about elevating those who society has ignored or shunned—women, people of color, members of the L.G.B.T. community, immigrants, refugees, even national enemies (in the middle of the Cold War, Roddenberry included the Russian Chekov)—and insisting that they matter. We are the aliens for which we seek, and this beautiful and fragile existence would not be what it is without each of us. Thank God we continue to have “Star Trek,” and characters like Wesley Crusher, to help us see that.
The new ‘Star Trek’ has moments better than my best homilies | America Magazine
A review of the new Stark Trek
If you’re of a certain age or like science fiction, you know of Wesley Crusher. He was the genius-level teenager on the 1980s “Star Trek: The Next Generation” reboot, a rather obvious attempt by the franchise to appeal to its own next generation. This “Star Trek” was so cool, it even had room for kids like us! You may also know of Wheaton because of his gorgeous performance at age 14 as Gordie in Rob Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age film “Stand by Me.” The show couldn’t have cast a more talented and authentic kid.
But Wesley was a complete disaster. While his character was apparently modeled on the young Gene Roddenberry, the beloved creator of “Star Trek,” the writers leaned into all the things that would make him the least likable and most problematic for audiences—the fact that he didn’t fit in, have friends or act like a normal kid; his desperate insecurity; and worst of all, the fact that he was so much smarter than everyone else.
“Star Trek” has been around for almost 60 years. And while it has presented itself as a show about exploring strange new worlds, at its heart it has always been about elevating those who society has ignored or shunned—women, people of color, members of the L.G.B.T. community, immigrants, refugees, even national enemies (in the middle of the Cold War, Roddenberry included the Russian Chekov)—and insisting that they matter. We are the aliens for which we seek, and this beautiful and fragile existence would not be what it is without each of us. Thank God we continue to have “Star Trek,” and characters like Wesley Crusher, to help us see that.
The new ‘Star Trek’ has moments better than my best homilies | America Magazine
So what bothered other people did not bother me.
