Star Trek: 10 Reasons Wesley Crusher Needs His Own Spin-Off Series

10. We Have Nothing To Declare But His Genius

If you start with wonderchild, a prodigy the likes of Mozart, it's nowhere but down without a damn good plan to exceed. As Gene Roddenberry's Marty Stu self-insert, Wesley Crusher didn't stand much of a chance from the beginning, left to fail, if not downwards, then forwards and out, during the remainder of his time on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The price of genius is eternal torture, not least, in the beginning, by being told to shut up about it. After, if you do achieve your (Starfleet Academy) dream, you can't have it for long: it's either wrong side of the flight path, wash-out, or both, I'm afraid, before you start to find another way. Journey's End was just that, the end. Then, sitting at the head table with the Troi-Rikers asked more questions than it answered, with any chance of explanation left on the cutting room floor.

Far from failing to live up, Wesley bounded back beyond all expectations in Star Trek: Prodigy. With the cosmos as his country, Wesley could be a Traveller, though it would be a shame for him to stop there. Prodigy was redemption; a spin-off would be the justice of a journey continued.