Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Wesley Crusher

"Your Latin has improved," said Captain Picard to then Cadet Wesley Crusher, back on the Enterprise for a bit in The Game. Well, it's a good job he made the effort as the language does run in the now extended family — from Locutus, (half-)brother Vox, Wesley's frater from another pater.

As we know, Wesley has yet to meet his formerly-assimilated sibling, but Wil Wheaton did sit down to interview his "space brother" Ed Speleers during an episode of The Ready Room. The pair had met briefly on set during filming of season three of Star Trek: Picard. Gates McFadden apparently let slip to Wheaton that Speleers was playing his 'brother,' a fact which Wheaton wasn't supposed to know at the time. "It's okay. NDAs have an exclusion for family," Wheaton replied to McFadden, worried for her job.

In February of this year (2024), on the red carpet for the Saturn Awards, Wheaton told Screen Rant that, "if the story was right," he would love to return as Wesley to build on what was left as an open question at the end of Star Trek: Picard's second season. He went on to say that he would also like to work with Ed Speleers, so that "super-being" Wesley could at least check in on his half-brother without making things weird, and even though Jack isn't supposed to know he's there. No mention of his Mum still, though.

In the real world, Gene Roddenberry's son 'Rod' also bears the Wesley middle name that became the on-screen incarnation of his father's younger self. As Rick Berman put it to Rod in the 2011 documentary Trek Nation, Wesley Crusher was also, in some sense, a kind of son for Gene Roddenberry, and he was certainly protective of Wheaton. "He [Gene Roddenberry] went and created sons," Berman added. For Rod Roddenberry, as for Jack, Speleers, and indeed for Wheaton, Wesley really is a brother unlike any other.