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Starfleet Academy actor calls for Star Trek pitches (from fans who think they 'can do better')
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Wesley being unqualified for Starfleet for anything other than personality/maturity is insane. They keep saying he has to study more, but that guy has demonstrated that he knows the ship and the federation technology better than any other member of the ship.
It's just not internally consistent. How would any of the current members of the enterprise be able to get in if fucking Mary-Sue-Wesley can't???
Ahahaha yeah that was wild! And by DS9's time, it didn't seem nearly as precious. Nog got into the academy just off Sisko's recommendations and entry seemed so guaranteed, Jake treated it as a take-it-or-leave-it situation.
Doesn't it imply Picard simply refused to vouch for Westley?
I think it's funny that for all the hate Wesley got, the OG wonder-boy was Chekov. Then Wesley basically turned into Jake (but with magic powers) by the end of TNG. He was just the weird middle child that didn't work.
Jake Crusher sounds like a nepo-bro drinking buddy to Kirk, NGL.
Maybe they took Barclay's negative recommendation way too seriously.
Iirc Wesley's disqualification was age related. He was a boy genius but there is enough of those in the post scarcity utopia that Starfleet isn't dumb enough to recruit all of them as officer, their lack of maturity could get them or others killed.
It was practically reverse affirmative action in that brightest youngsters could compete for a few slots to get into the academy a few years earlier. So he was not going up against the Miles O'Briens of Starfleet. He was going up against the Julian Bashirs who can ace nearly any standard test with their eyes closed.
Last thing Starfleet needed was impulsive teenagers to find them selves in command of veteran crewmen, react horribly to be given advice contrary to their current orders and get people or themselves killed. The Academy is for future officers, not the enlisted equivalent ranks that O'Brien filled. Wesley would have made a great crewman, he'd have made a terrible officer.