I know you get a lot of crap about the Wesley character, but I’ve recently introduced my 9yo niece to TNG, and he’s one of her favorite characters. We just started S2 and she keeps bubbling about how excited she is to see him go to the Academy and get his uniform. She’s disappointed if he’s not in an episode. Her enthusiasm reminds me how much I adored him as a little girl. People use the term “kid-appeal character” as a pejorative, but you were *good* at it. Just wanted to let you know 😊
I really love this. Thank you for sharing it with me.
Please tell your niece that I talked with Wesley, and he wanted me to tell her: “You can be anything you want, do anything you want, and don’t ever let someone tell you what you can’t do in your life. Don’t give up when things get hard, because everything worth doing is hard! If I can drive the Enterprise, so can you.”
This. So much this.