Comments on: Robot Chicken Skewers Wesley Crusher – Wil Wheaton Loves It

By: Yammer

Yammer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:33:50 +0000

I liked the idea of Wes Crusher, having a boy prodigy in space. Aspergers-sci-fi-nerds holla!

But did they have to give him a rainbow suit?

By: Just Sayin'

Just Sayin' — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:09:51 +0000

Did Snirkles remind anyone else of the Q character?

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:12:40 +0000

#41: They’d just re-imagine him as a bland, amoral yuppie Snirkles steeped in his own sense of entitlement and airbrushed to the gills for magazine covers … Sure, we could console ourselves with the fact that the “real” Snirkles still exists in the Prime timeline, but would it be worth the pain of seeing the character’s noble, heroic banjo-thrashing machismo sullied just to make a glossy new product?

I say we keep _some_ things about Star Trek sacred, and I can’t imagine any element more deserving than our buddy Snirkles.

By: Juan Andres Urguelles

Juan Andres Urguelles — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:31 +0000

Maybe we should open a petition to add Snirkles in the Orcy/Kurtzmann script.

By: dep1701

dep1701 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:22:15 +0000

I also was annoyed by Wesley, simply because they made him another ‘wunderkind’. If he’s been just a normal lad who was befriended by the crew, and mentored by Picard, he would have been much better.

Actually, if he had been written as a young, early, exceptional graduate from Starfleet Academy, who was in training aboard the Enterprise, the character would have been much more palatableand believable. Especially, when he was made defacto navigator.

About the only kid character in SciFi/Fantasy I ever liked whilst growing up was Will Robinson on ‘lost in space’. He was written to have a high I.Q. but still acted like a normal kid ( of course, why would a kid with a really high I.Q. hang around with a troublemaking, homicidal, potential pedophile like Dr. Smith?)

By: Oshkalabah

Oshkalabah — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:09:53 +0000

OK, so did anyone notice a continuity error in this? The writers said it was Season 3, but Worf’s hair is clearly in his Season 7 pony. Ha! I love loving Star Trek.

By: Scott Baxter

Scott Baxter — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:08:50 +0000

Kill Wesley.

Keep Snirkles.

By: Scott B. here.

Scott B. here. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:49:38 +0000

Re #30: “I never wanted to identify with Short Round or Heironymus Fox, and didn’t understand why these brats were standing around obstructing my view of the action.”

I don’t LOL often when reading posts, but that’s truth with awesome sauce, S. John. Eons ago, when I was a lad, I despised movies and TV shows about kids, because they Never Act Like Real Kids. They were either saying dopey, sappy things, or alternatively, behaving like smart alecks, showing up the hapless adults. I hated that. Like you, I identified with Steve McQueen, James West or Steve Austin — never kid characters.

Short Round … heh.

Scott B. out.

By: sensor ghost

sensor ghost — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:56:43 +0000

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:49:09 +0000

By all means!!! Snirkles is the best trek character created in the last 12 years!!! He beats both Janeway and Neelix!!!