Wesley Crusher Returns As a Traveler in Star Trek Picard Season 2 Finale

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[@MajorGrin]

my review of the last episode : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZLXlqFqlqqFobM

[@ZantherStone]

2:57 Morty Mind Blowers

[@ransakreject5221]

Wesley was trans before it was cool

[@leif1075]

wHATdoes that TOS episode have to do with travelers--that guy wasnt a trAVELER was he? A time traveler is not thesame as a Traveler. Is that Assignment Earth?

[@LDG519]

"The last time I told a joke I inadvertently changed a centuries worth of history" Does this mean we can canonically blame Wesley Crusher for all the inconsistencies in the new trek shows?

[@nogodsnomasters357]

Yes, that is exactly what that means!

[@CailenCambeul]

It means we can blame That Stupid Boy for everything that ever happens, in any book or video for the rest of your life. "Shutup Wesley, you stupid boy."

[@waremtaethalin6388]

Damn it, Wesley!

[@aelolul]

Shut up, Wesley!

[@KMCA779]

nah he told a joke in 2020. 2 down 98 to go

[@BobSmith-kk4kp]

Imagine living in a universe where an omnipotent authoritarian Wil Wheaton controlled your timeline and what was "proper"

[@NitpickingNerd]

He didnt bother to save the guy at the bar . I guess it was his destiny to die for wanting to have sex with a woman

[@mysterymastermind175]

He let gestappo ice do its thing

[@Laneous14]

Wil Wheaton's fantasy he beats off to every night after his latest Twitter spat.

[@Normie_Normalson]

basically if the entire universe was like twitter. i'd just delete my account, if you know what i'm saying

[@inkermoy]

Wesley getting in and changing the Travelers from a bunch of wanderers to a cabal of Activists is exactly what's going on with our entertainment spaces today! Too funny!

[@andygrams6344]

Wesley is a Traveller who goes on journeys down old railroad tracks because he is curious about finding the dead rotting corpses of once beloved franchises that were hit by the freight trains of the Hollywood & Corporate Creative Committee railway. Addendum: The reason why everyone's been throwing up in Picard is that it's all a campfire story Wesley is telling us, where he plotted his revenge for not getting a cameo at first, he had everyone eat too much blueberry pies, and he then induced mass vomiting by his over-the-top over-positive reactions to each actor on set.

[@russellharrell2747]

You could say he’s the King of geekdom.

[@alejandronopasanada5302]

Very good. I was hoping on the way to this corps, there would have been SOME coming of age.

[@andygrams6344]

Oh! The throwing up throughout Picard now makes perfect sense - this whole terrible series has been a campfire story from Traveller Wesley, and he had everyone in it eat too much blueberry pies, and induced mass vomiting by the nauseating display of (his own) overacting on set. Thanks Gordo--I mean Wesley. Major Grin, please make a mash-up of picard/stand by me illustrating this theory :)

[@frauleinhohenzollern8442]

Stand by Me 😊

[@andygrams6344]

@@alejandronopasanada5302 Well there was, in that it has already aged horribly, and we have all aged prematurely due to the trauma.

[@handlesRdumb]

If he's protecting timelines then why didn't he stop this show before it started?

[@russellharrell2747]

Hey, he’s not that good at his job. He’s only an acting traveler.

[@calebwalker9090]

OK now maybe just maybe the few changes this season did to the timeline are also essential to the future of the timeline that we see so this divergence in the timeline was always meant to happen it was always important to get to say where discovery is now divergence in timelines that inevitably branch back in could be a fixed point there’s no way to stop them they must happen and they could be good they could be bad time is weird

[@ianhirst1148]

Very good.

[@nozislam]

Lol 😆

[@gerag865]

This is the only timeline where he got screen time

[@Fartucus]

All that shilling for cbs finally paid off.

[@SparkyP]

Shill Wheaton

[@SheldonAdama17]

Shut up Wesley!

[@snarkylive]

lord of time and shills

[@andytay5507]

@@SparkyP jealous much?

[@SparkyP]

@@andytay5507 yes. I've always wanted to be a B list actor who peaked in the early 90s and has worked little since. It's like you have seen right through me.

[@inspector2363]

Older Wesley is a lot less impressive than the "future" one Q briefly aged him up to be.

[@russellharrell2747]

Artistic license. Q always exaggerates potentials. Or being a traveler really does a number on your testosterone

[@barnabybot]

Lol. That dude was gay pin up level buff

[@HisDivineShadow]

Yeah, it's like he's a really bad actor or something. Cringe level bad. 🧐

[@TheZapan99]

Adult Chad Wesley vs Twitter Soyboy Wesley.

[@samuelcalkin3516]

@@barnabybot I am very gay, but Wesley is a whole other level.

[@KingOfMadCows]

This was just so random. There was nothing in Korey's storyline to even hint that she's interested in exploration or that she had an affinity for that kind of thing. It came out of nowhere. The writers clearly had no idea what to do with her storyline and went, "let's put in a cameo and wrap it up."

[@NitpickingNerd]

funniest part to me is how easy she accepted this fantasy story as something plausible . she's not even aware of the existence of aliens or time travel , only that she was a genetic experiment . she also behaved as if she knows Q (when she only saw a recording of him once), and for some reason seems ungrateful / annoyed by Q even though he's the one who gave her Freedom . yet is now complaining about his "games" as if she saw old tng episodes

[@leandrotami]

I thought the same thing. She was barely about to start her new life away from her 'father' and then suddenly gets a visit like that for no apparent reason.

[@bigddannyflynn-filmmaker5694]

it felt tacked in last second - which meant that they didn't want to wrap up the Soji/Kore storyline at all, which makes season 1 completely pointless since Captain Picard was ready to risk everything in the galaxy to save Soji and even got killed trying to do it, then in season 2 they just tried to forget she existed haha

[@Norm604]

That was my first thought as well. Wesley was a prodigy and the Traveler recognized that. She had barely left the house and had no experience with space travel. It was great to finally see him back for a few moments but it was thrown together. I wonder if he did it to get out of season 3.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

Poens the door to the writer's room. We need an exit strategy! GET ON IT!!

[@vikingdeath1]

This seems like a joke. But... It's not. They did this. They did this.

[@ArmyJames]

Hwil Hwheaton did this.

[@adamerwin3370]

Serious? I mean, I didn't watch it. Don't want to. But.....REALLY??

[@alejandronopasanada5302]

Yeah man, you thought it couldn’t get any worse and they go and set a dumpster of plot lines ablaze and roll it towards a gas station.

[@joelellis7035]

@@alejandronopasanada5302 where's Rittenhouse when you need him?

[@axelhopfinger533]

It's not supposed to be a joke - but a middle finger to the fan base, bringing back the most universally loathed character and actor back at the very end of an indescribably bad show that can only be understood as a mean spirited mockery of everything Star Trek.

[@SheldonAdama17]

“If Beyond and Discovery killed the franchise, then Picard resurrected its decaying corpse, bent it over a table and had its way with it using the teddy bear from my Doctor Who analogy” - Critical Drinker, Picard Season 1 review

[@Reverend_Sashimi]

The Drinker 'tis a wise man. Anyway, that's all I've got for today... go away now. 😎

[@svsguru2000]

Not only was his acting in this scene just atrocious, he didn't even bother to shave. And now for some reason, they retconned the Travelers as being in charge of the supervisors. Every choice they make is wrong.

[@ThePariahDark]

Kurtzman and his cronies are wrong to the bone. They understand Star Trek as much as I understand Warhammer 40k. Which is "I know the basics" but that is it. Then again, I might read up on it if I were to make a TV show... Kurtzman clearly didn't.

[@danielkubin3878]

They didn´t even bother to change his clothes xD. I bet that clothes he had is the same clothes which he came to shooting set xD

[@odojang]

@@danielkubin3878 The whole purpose of their time travel season to present day; sets in the backlot, props from Wal-Mart and costumes from each actor's daily wardrobe. S1 story and effects were cheap. S2 everything is.

[@jamesp3902]

@@odojang They ran out of money to make the show.

[@metazare]

He can't shave, how else will he hide the fact he has a baby face with no chin?

[@AgentExeider]

My entire reaction to Discovery and Picard.... Shaka, When the walls fell.

[@nicholasmiller5152]

The beast at Tanagra.

[@fisterB]

The ocean is all Darmok from here :(

[@raimundoespectro7514]

Let's focus on the positive. This awfull season ended.

[@thomasalvarez6456]

I wish we could build our own Enterprise, go back in time First Contact style and stop the 2009 movie. Nip it in the bud.

[@biggielittle1384]

Even better news: Channels like this exist so you don’t actually have to pay for the show.

[@ethzero]

Welcoming the taste of steel for the click.

[@someguy4331]

@@biggielittle1384 who pays for the show? xD

[@nealbradleigh5069]

DAMMIT, Y THAT WAS BLUNT, but I guess you are right (to quote Gerry Garcia and Co. "What a loooong strange trip this has been")!

[@thomasharfst3381]

Wesley recruits Soong's daughter and transports her to his TARDIS as his new companion. LOL.

[@dw7939]

The only comment that has my respect. 👍

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

When franchises collide

[@grimnir8872]

I like how they went from a "Traveler" who explores the higher planes of reality.... to a literal "Supervisor" who looks down on time like a middle manager.

[@dandellapaolera8169]

Wesley in this case says literally 'We employ supervisors" which to me means that the travelers send others to supervise, not that they supervise themselves. In addition they work on keeping the time line the way it is, not changing it.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

@@dandellapaolera8169 Yeah, DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMB.

[@capuchinhelper]

There is only one adult Wesley Crusher, the one Q made.

[@russellharrell2747]

It would have been an epic troll to get that actor back instead of Wheaton.

[@briansinger5258]

I’m going to be enjoying the thought of Wil Wheaton crying for the rest of my day.

[@kevinmerchant2478]

@@russellharrell2747 True, but he would be far too old now.

[@SparkyP]

How has Shill Wheaton's acting actually got WORSE?

[@Retro6502]

That was awful. Felt like watching some random dude off the street reading unrehearsed lines straight off a cue card.

[@jbleargh]

His "acting" got worse during TNG... His peak was in Stand by Me.

[@Laneous14]

I thought it was some kind of overdub by Grin but no...it's just that bad.

[@rennmaxbeta]

Must be all those cameos on TBBT

[@ge2719]

look at his face, hes so happy to have been included he cant stop with the massive idiotic grin on his face. will wheaton should change HIS name to major grin.

[@reniasva]

So let me get this straight: Wesley had to unlock largely unspecified powers, yet Soong's daughter gets an invite for no reason other than being just that? And Jurati has been the Borg Queen in the main timeline for 400 years, got killed by Janeway, yet came back and decided within 23 years to become a good Borg Queen, bc parts of Agnes took over while listening to Edith Piaf? If that shit gets accepted, then I will send in my very own script pitch for Star Trek: Lowest Decks.

[@calebwalker9090]

Did you not even pay attention at all the Borg‘s timeline isn’t linear it never has been from your creation to their destruction in voyager to the re-creation of the good Borg in Picard it’s not one linear timeline there’s no start and end there’s no middle it’s all over the place and that is the whole point of the Borg and the reason that they probably talk his daughter without having to do anything is because she is an argument and an argument should not be there that early in the timeline history wasn’t ready for it yet they needed more time before society was ready for augments so they probably just recruited her to get her out of the timeline so they wouldn’t have to kill her

[@Waywardpaladin]

Wesley is a Traveler, she's just going to be a Supervisor, the people they modify and leave in different points in time to keep an eye on things.

[@deepdragon2]

why they seem to be doing that all across the series now.... straight comedy....

[@HisDivineShadow]

Those apologizing for this absolute shite are engaging in cope.

[@calebwalker9090]

@@Waywardpaladin you’re right that negates the original commenters point at least one of them negating minus well I don’t remember that much about that episode I’ve only seen it one time and I haven’t seen it in like two years

[@cha02psc]

Poor Memory Alpha. Wesley Crusher went to Starfleet academy, did not graduate because he was terrible, then did a mutiny, and then went off with the traveller. THEN, he came back for Riker and Troi’s funeral and got into Starfleet uniform like he was back in Starfleet and like he was going to go and be an engineer on the Titan but he actually wasn’t. He was a traveller. He just put on a gold lieutenants dress uniform for Riker and Troi’s event to fuck with his friends. Because he was making fun of them? I’m not saying the writers didn’t know this. I’m not saying that. WE WATCH AS WELL YOU HACKS

[@LotarL31]

Riker and Troi's WEDDING not funeral. ROFL!

[@joelellis7035]

@@LotarL31 It was a funeral for Worf! Recently lost Dax, and now he couldn't rebound with some Betazoid poontang. Had to settle for the headache from illegal Romulan hooch. The p"tach!

[@samuelcalkin3516]

WESLEY CRUSHER STOLEN VALOR!!! I KNOW PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THAT UNIFORM DURING THE SIEGE OF AR-558!

[@AlMcpherson79]

@@LotarL31 ... well, at my sisters wedding I gave her my condolences. it was funny.

[@VanguardKaiser]

Wesley at the wedding is no longer considered canon as it was a deleted scene.

[@cecilkeith1951]

Like Mike Stoklasa said, "Picard is the dead body."

[@garym6315]

Let me get this straight...at the end of the episode they have some random magical bloke appear and dump a whole load of exposition, and they expect people who don't know TNG to be fine with this sort of storytelling?!?

[@Robert-tj1nc]

do people, who haven't watch TNG, watch this show?

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

@Robert, that certainly seems to be the audience they're aiming for.

[@Normie_Normalson]

Never mind that. A chinless hobo walks up to her and starts talking about time threads, and her reaction is just "oh, neat. I believe every word you say without question"

[@SheldonAdama17]

In fairness, I fully expect people who don’t know TNG to be fine with this sort of storytelling. Too many people fall into the “consume product and get excited for next product” mentality these days

[@cerwach]

The only people who watch this are people who do so for the purposes of making KZbin videos.

[@Species1571]

He is going to do unspeakable things to her. He showed up out of nowhere, told her "I control everything, now get in the van" and she just stuck her hand out.

[@dw7939]

TV does not translate to real world very well. It's no wonder our kids are so messed up, such mixed messages. I just re-watched Grease. Holy Cow. Date rape 'did she put up a fight', the 25 cent ins policy condom that broke, Franky singing to Pinkie she isn't cut out for a job, the song about not being a tease and just make sure to sleep with the guy, the grease lightning song lyric - p wagon, my fav was the virgin shaming Sandra Dee song. How did I not catch this when I was a kid? I think I did get some of it because it influenced my behavior quite a bit, and not in a healthy way. This movie doesn't age well.

[@luchomscyfy]

@@dw7939 still Grease aged better than this season of Picard....

[@illudiumq36spacemodulator39]

Star Trek Bang Bus.

[@vlnow]

"The last time i told a joke i inadvertantly shat all over half a century of canon"

[@scottdahl1938]

The whole world started laughing cause the joke was on He.

[@adamerwin3370]

When you realize Wil Wheaton now is older than Patrick Stewart when TNG started.....

[@scockery]

At least he got to keep his hair.

[@stewartmcminn7773]

@@scockery but lost his acting ability

[@ericstaples7220]

Wesley: "I work really hard to not be misunderstood." Also Wesley: Compares the universe to a tapestry.

[@augustjsb]

As opposed to?

[@ericstaples7220]

@@augustjsb Opposed to an objective description.

[@augustjsb]

@@ericstaples7220 Such as "fabric of the universe"?

[@time391]

That Tapestry remark is a call back to the TNG theme from Picard and Q's own meeting after Picard nearly died from his artificial heart failure. Q pulled a "It's a Wonderful Life" on Picard. Kind of sms up the season

[@BenWillock]

Gotta get those TNG episode name references in lol

[@onepcwhiz6847]

Forever indebted to the traveler for taking Wesley away.

[@fridayray8891]

Hear, Hear!!!!

[@axelhopfinger533]

How unfortunate for us there are no travellers to take KurtzGoldsman away, eh?

[@nackteHintern]

But now it seems that he can appear anywhere at anytime. He's not taken away. He will be in every Star Trek show now.

[@axelhopfinger533]

@@nackteHintern In every show KurtzGoldsman make probably. Unless the viewers revolt. Which is unlikely, since nobody even cares enough about Trek anymore to put out the effort, KurtzGoldsman killed it that thoroughly.

[@fridayray8891]

@@nackteHintern OH Dear God

[@B.3.A.R.]

An omnipotent authoritarian Wil Wheaton appears and just dumps a whole load of exposition. And this passes as Star Trek in 2022?!?

[@SJ-co6nk]

"My time with the space pedophile taught me many things."

[@B.3.A.R.]

@@SJ-co6nk 🤣🤣🤣

[@MP-nf9qz]

And I thought it couldn't get worse.. That was a pure cheddar moment. I guess the travelers are handing out free memberships nowadays to anyone in need. If that Wesley is an ideal candidate, I think I will pass.

[@Cuthalu]

The writers needed a way to bring Soji 2.0 into the "present" time, hence the Deus Ex Machina. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever story wise but that's nothing new for these writers.

[@O1OO1O1]

Get a free Traveler membership for every 5 dead Qs.

[@Daimo83]

Really bad acting

[@toddmiller2855]

He was a traveler in the last season of TNG. A supervisor had just been killed, so a new supervisor was recruited. The "gem" is that the travelers ARE the higher being the supervisor report to (according to Gary Seven).

[@NextToToddliness]

They had to digitally comp them together, because she couldn't resist hitting him.

[@MisteRRYouTuby]

Wait. Seriously?

[@StraightWhiteMaleNews]

This guy looks like he just came from a Big Bang Theory Reunion show....

[@brianboudrot7055]

Wheaton!!!!!

[@benrodgers1189]

Honestly one of the funniest cameos I’ve ever seen. From the way he creepily walks up behind her to the cringey overacting to the fact that they didn’t even bother shaving his beard or giving him a costume is comedy gold!

[@DrRyan82994]

i’m trying to place my finger on it, he’s acting almost like the people in the advertisements for the star wars hotel, the smug fake excitement

[@stewartmcminn7773]

@@DrRyan82994 it's because he smiles after every line like child actors do in commercials for cereals

[@LeoBeoo]

"Welcome to the travelers" i laughed out so loud of disbelieve of the stupidity of it.

[@TheGenXer]

You probably should work on putting together a coherent sentence before calling things stupid.

[@LeoBeoo]

@@TheGenXer You are probably right, I found the sentence to sound a bit odd, but English is not my native language. But you understood what I meant so it isn't so bad after all.

[@OneofInfinity.]

@@TheGenXer Oh look, a millennial pretending to be from a better generation making snide remarks.

[@Berkhoi]

Why is WIl acting like he's in the Big Bang Theory still? His younger self had a more mature look more suitable to the kind of person a traveler, with vast knowledge and wisdom, would have. Lol, he's acting like Billy Mays the "As Seen On TV" sales guy.

[@dirdib69]

"I was once known as Wesley Crusher, but my actual name is Michael Burnham."

[@cyrusol]

JESUS

[@illudiumq36spacemodulator39]

"I'll take Star Trek tidbits for 100 Alex." Alex-WTF, it's Wesley! Player-"What happens when Paramount's executives think Star Trek fans are morons."

[@sadmagicalsenpai3728]

Took me way to long to realize that this isn't a glorious edit with way too much effort put into it. It's actually real. You cannot make this stuff up.

[@fuferito]

There's one guy from _Stand By Me._ How about we get the chubby guy, now, who was also in [whisper] _Sliders?_

[@DagobertX2]

When Wesley is explaining who he is, I just can't see anything else than how he explains a new tabletop game 😂

[@ge2719]

you've got to do a super cut of all the lofty dramatic dialogue from the finale, intercut with mike stoklasa's off the cuff version from the last rlm review. its all i could picture in throughout the episode. it was spot on, as if he had already seen the last episode. especially the last part of picard giving that stupid speech in the bar , to q, and to romulirish woman at the end.

[@K-Effect]

And with plenty of farts added

[@etsequentia6765]

Romulirish? I... I... don't want to know.

[@uberneanderthal]

you can tell this was a last minute addition, they didn't even have a wardrobe for him. it looks like he's wearing whatever clothes he slept in that night at the bus depot. I bet anything wil just showed up on set one day begging to be put in the show, and kurtzman was like "yeah fine, who cares. we need an excuse to write out this actress anyway so we'll just use the same plot they used to write you out".

[@wesjanson6979]

he isn't a magical time traveler guy, he just works in a toll booth and wanted company and rich evans was busy

[@danielkubin3878]

i can imagine it looks like this: Alex and Will went to the pub and Alex told Will, "hey Will would you like before that shoot some scene in Star Trek Picard show?" and Will, "yeah, why not, but what about some script, also i did not shave at all...also do you have some costume...",, and Alex, "Will wait a minute, none of these matter, we need some cool easter egg for a minute and we knew that you knew how to improvise and nobody give a shi** what you wearing or how you look like! I will buy you some drink for that!, and Will, "Well in this case...why not!"

[@tankyouverymuch1726]

It feels like they are giving Soongchee even more powers so she can be the key to everything in the universe and save the reunited cast of TNG (they will be onboard the USS Sheer Phucking). Then Soongchee, Wesley and the rest of the creepy Super Adventure Traveler Club will teach the Federation how to not be Nazis.

[@williamgarner6779]

Recursive write out!

[@Cuthalu]

You can bet your ass they didn't use this to write Soji 2.0 out, they wrote her in with this.

[@SimpMcSimpy]

"...last time I told a joke I changed a century of history..." We need Time Traveler to go back in time (2009) and fix Star Trek.

[@MisteRRYouTuby]

So WESLEY is the reason we’re stuck with New Trek…

[@michaelbenjmitchell1]

Don't do that all your going to do is create a alternate timeline.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

2 aliens walk into a bar...

[@luchomscyfy]

@@MisteRRYouTuby "Shut up, Wesley"

[@bsebire]

Lol! I used to joke as they get more desperate, Star Trek: Picard will be followed by Star Trek: Wesley. My dream came true! :D

[@russellharrell2747]

They are really Crushing it, you could say.

[@Shrike1988]

It'd be more believable if he sold travelers insurance

[@MrJavyGO]

Oh, well...nothing ever stays the same. Star Trek is just not something I'm into anymore. Re-runs...that's it for me.

[@edwinpoon]

Oh no, don't even bother with re-runs, Old Trek. Just exit Star Trek totally. Good bye, live long and be poor.

[@temparalflux914]

Same, although i dont mind Lower decks for 20 mins a week, at least that is openly taking the piss out of itself and is pretty good at ACTUALLY adhering to canon and trek easter eggs galore in ways that work well most of the time.

[@jessestreet2549]

I prefer Firefly and Babylon 5. If B5 had Garak it would have been perfect.

[@doomedhuh]

Wesley in this episode just came out of nowhere. I hope it was just to throw him a bone and give his character some kind of send off.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Honestly if this were a better show with better writers, a far more interesting first season would have been the Traveler plot finally getting resolved, one of the biggest loose ends from TNG. There was immense potential for that but the writers are too dumb to pull it off and as shown above, it's not even consistent or coherent in the final effort.

[@Kit_Kat_Catastrophe]

He's been kissing massive amounts of ass on that little show of his, this is his brown noser reward

[@thecaptain6730]

Right-since when are the travelers, actually, time travelers?!?!

[@doomedhuh]

i guess we now know why wesley was in season 2 of picard. they had to reestablish him as a travler to give bev motivation for not telling Picard about Jack

[@BR-cq2hm]

Wil Wheaton went ahead and Stacey Abram'ed himself into the finale. Nice.

[@paradox7358]

They finally gave him a job.

[@mervstash3692]

He gave many many blow jobs

[@MichaelPohoreski]

All that shilling paid off /s _What good is gaining a cameo when all the fans left LONG ago?_ =P

[@blingosvengefulghost5266]

So Wesley told a joke so bad it rewrote all of Star Trek canon?

[@samuelcalkin3516]

Yes

[@Cuthalu]

So, to reiterate: the writers themselves understood Soji as a character was beyond redemption after the s1 ending fiasco. Then they recreated Soji as genetically engineered similar person who will be transported into season 3 by Deus Ex Machina Will Wheaton. Fantastic work writers, absolutely brilliant...

[@axelhopfinger533]

Even the most talentless of fanfic writers would be rightfully ashamed for pulling a cheap stunt like this. But KurtzGoldsman obviously don't even know the concept of shame or respect.

[@takerdust]

Soji actress has a contract with Paramount. They'll write her into anything, even if it ruins the story.

[@sethhauser4757]

Technically Soji and Korre are two completely different characters who look exactly the same, are played by the same actress, and were artificially created by different members of the same family, who incidentally also look the same and are played by the same actor. So either Korre or Soji could be in season 3, though there is no logical reason for either character to be in the show again.

[@999benhonda]

Remember on tng, when the traveler told a joke and messed up history for 10 decades? Nope, me neither. The writers think that bringing back characters is the answer but they have changed every single one. Wes isn't shaved, he is over emoting, the traveler never said anything about his people watching over or correcting time lines and what reason was there for him to no longer go by his name? If the traveler's race gave him a new name, one not pronouncable by humans, he could have mentioned that before saying that he used to go by wesley.

[@toddmiller2855]

I know.. I mean surely no one has had any changes to anything in their lives in 30 years right? I mean aren't we all the exact same person we were when we were 19 or 20?

[@nogodsnomasters357]

It's for member berry purposes. We must see all of the old TNG crew so that we can feel better about how shitty Klutzman made his version of Trek.

[@alexmaverick6647]

There’s soooo many criticisms that one could make against this show…and you thought it was important to complain that Wes has a beard. I think it’s safe to say you’re in a little too deep on the hate train, my guy.

[@OneofInfinity.]

They probably wanted to pull a Bran Stark, the so called writers have one talent : stealing from others.

[@rayzermaniac5218]

I keep looking for the signs of the editing in this clip. The clues that explain how these two pieces of unrelated footage was spliced together. Then the horror hits me. It is not spliced together. This is real unedited footage fro. Star Trek Picard. Just when you think that it cannot get any worse, they actually pull it off. Suddenly the TOS Space Hippies don't seem so bad.

[@os5573]

I was wondering the same.

[@andrewparnell5566]

"The last time I told a joke I inadvertently changed a centuries worth of history" So.... Wesley didn't shut up?

[@Zorro9129]

I hate how not only did they make Wesley Crusher a complete Gary Stu, but they changed how time works in Star Trek. Now no longer is there a "Temporal Time Directive" to not interfere with the past. Instead, mysterious beings are supposed to interfere with the past to "save the universe." Sinister.

[@hjalfi]

Not to mention that having a group of superbeings maintaining the timeline completely undermines the many, many times Star Trek has had time travel stories where our heroes have to somehow save the timeline. It means nothing they did was important, because the travellers would always step in to fix things if they screwed up. ...also, where were they during the Temporal Cold War?

[@Antonioplus]

What's the "Temporal Time Directive"?

[@ShiroMatrix]

It also just further reinforces how the hell could there be a Kelvin timeline then when you have not only Time Fleet, but now Time Travelling Watchers!?

[@AmericanShia786]

What would be hilarious is if William Shatner also made a surprise cameo just as Wesley Crusher was giving his pitch. 😜

[@wmlau69]

Within this season of Picard, there are 3 omnipotent races included in the story: the Qs, the Travelers and Gary Seven’s boss. Last season, we got the synthetic life forms living in a different dimension, How is it that these beings never encountered or fought each other before?

[@ClemensLode]

lol, I totally forgot about those

[@athingwhichexists]

To be fair, that question holds true for all of Star Trek, but at least before the travelers weren’t omnipotent, just had the ability to explore various dimensions which they did, and in the previous shows the omnipotent races were separated by at least a season or show

[@looseends1270]

The Borg Queen was extremely powerful.

[@b1indmailman]

Don't worry next season we get to see the big bad race that they keep hinting at like its Mass Effect

[@ClemensLode]

@@looseends1270 that never made sense.

[@hardy83]

You know that whole every species has a right to self-determination crap in the prime directive? Yeah... Turns out the entire Star Trek universe is all just destiny and omnipotent beings controlling what everyone else does. Either watching, messing around or straight up magic destinies existing in this world. The hand of god exists in Star Trek and he needs a spaceship.

[@logicplague2077]

What does God need with a starship?

[@CommanderM117]

@@logicplague2077 still funny as heck

[@paulshuttleworth6261]

Kind of makes the whole thing a bit pointless really doesn’t it? There’s no jeopardy at all. But then it was a bit like that since the very beginning of TNG with Q.

[@martinperry1843]

That's pretty funny, you guys managed to photoshop Wil Wheaton into a scene from Star Trek Picard. Weird you got such a clean clip of him saying funny stuff about time travel. Did you get it from a scifi convention or a DVD commentary or something? Or maybe it's a deepfake?

[@logicplague2077]

Apparently they actually did this

[@johnochiltree1170]

@@logicplague2077 no they didnt

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

They actually did it I almost killed myself with the hard facepalm I gave myself!

[@Normie_Normalson]

it actually does look like neither of them are on the same set together. the actress looks like she's just reacting to random cues and has no idea what the person opposite her is saying

[@Lord_Aussem]

Pretty sure this comment is sarcastic. It is pretty unbelievable they did this however. They just keep finding new ways to ruin things, it's kind of amazing in a way.

[@nerfheardingfuzzball]

I never would have thought that adult Wesley could be more obnoxious than tng season 1 Wesley, but here we are.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

Peak performance in The Big Bang Theory

[@stephenl6212]

The Wesley face in the end had me dying laughing.

[@douglasschmidt2869]

I almost missed it! I have a feeling a lot of ppl did!

[@AlexLopezMan]

I get it now, they read all TNG scripts and go "we will do the exact opposite, fans will love that"

[@everythingphil9376]

0:49 The first step to Wokeness. 1:37 My colleagues and I use the Ministry of Truth to ensure only our views are heard.

[@samuelcalkin3516]

They had an opertunity to make Wesley Crusher Trans but they blew it.

[@everythingphil9376]

@@samuelcalkin3516 🎯

[@johngill6290]

He actually played his character from The Big Bang Theory, he must have mixed them up.

[@SailorAllan]

" W H E A T O N !!! "

[@cbltex]

Okay, fair enough, not even Wesley got out of STP clean. Still, him getting tired of Traveller BS and signing on to Watcher BS is not a horrible plot-line in isolation. Not that I'd trust these writers and producers with it, but a group with a couple of brain cells could work with it.

[@CommanderM117]

going by what he said he's making it seem watchers work for the travellers witch is stupid but this is new treks soo yea grass is green water is wet.

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

@@CommanderM117 Seven specifically said "water dry" in one of the earlier episodes.

[@Halak014]

What?!?! From Curious travelers on a nice jaunt explore, to time police guardians of all time and space... what in the f.....

[@hermanspaerman3490]

Why does the traveler sound exactly like the man from my childhood playing ground in the park who always tried to convince me that if I followed him into the woods I would get a treat and experience something new.

[@Normie_Normalson]

probably because wil wheaton IS a creepy old man who lures children into the woods. allegedly.

[@phily8093]

"You're ready to explore things you cannot begin to imagine". Hmmmm, something not quite right there.

[@God_of_Calamity]

Wesley returning in the cameo wasn't as cringe as it nearly could have been. Listening to Wil Wheaton gush about it on the Ready Room was. Why he chose the Isa, Briones variant as a traveler recruit was pretty unbelievable, but they had to tie up the plot hole somehow.

[@ronaldtrang5040]

And create new plot holes that's even worst.

[@Kit_Kat_Catastrophe]

And they're such failures at their job...the Kurtzman timeline: the inept timeline.Where everyone is a failure and dumb luck barely manages to keep everything together

[@lem1137]

“now I am a traveler of all space and time” is a great pickup line.

[@ZoeMalDoran]

Works for the Doctor all the time... which is what his cameo felt like; a "new Companion intro" episode of Doctor Who condensed down into a single badly-done scene

[@chrisfraser5088]

“Welcome to the Travellers”… oh, Jesus wept 🤦‍♂️

[@mm-gl7sz]

Wesley sounds like he's doing an ad for Travelers insurance when he says welcome to the travelers

[@john2001plus]

Wesley Crusher as Doctor Who. I'm still trying to get my head around this.

[@autecheee]

The use of the transporter beam implies Wesley Traveller is on a time traveling ship unless he’s using the La Sirena…this insertion was so out of the blue pastiche! Can’t wait for Nitpicky to pick it beyond time and space.

[@sgshaday]

They use ships to move. They just mess up with the engines. There are some that can travel great distances without a ship but that requires a lot of training.

[@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253]

I hate these kinds of characters, who know everything and keep everything "just the way it's supposed to be", no matter how violent or horrific the fates of certain people are. I especially hate their infuriating smiles, as if none of this shit is horrible and is going to end oh so great. If anything such a creature, which is privy to everything that is happening is supposed to be *infinitely sad and bored* .

[@tcraigwilson]

Damn. When I didn't see his name in the returning cast, I got excited.

[@mitchellatticuswolfgang6554]

He looks like he just wandered on set too,he seems so smug.

[@NitpickingNerd]

Now i understand why shatner was annoyed by him when he invaded his set

[@mitchellatticuswolfgang6554]

@@NitpickingNerd I’m annoyed about him being on set and I’m just watching from home.

[@Jabberstax]

Don't they realise how much EVERYBODY hates Wesley Crusher?

[@nicoleackerman205]

I honestly think he is the most hated character of all time not just Star Trek.

[@Bertie..]

Sorry to burst your bubble. I like him.

[@AiriDee]

I like him, too. I was nine when getting into TNG. Seeing a kid in the cast made me happy. Never understood all the hate. Don't understand the concept of hate yet. 🤷‍♀

[@xizorma]

I'm sure Wesley was added last week when the showrunners realized that they forgot to include him in season 3 as part of the TNG cast... 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@sambas9257]

Context is everything. Wesley traveller in TNG is an interdimensional alien from the IV updated Kardashev scale, Wesley traveller in Picard is a fantasy coming of age ending

[@luchomscyfy]

Stand by me 2: Rotting Corpse of a franchise. Sounds about right, isn't?

[@highallmighty233]

That face is 90% soi

[@nuclearwinter391]

Reminds me of Itchy and Scratchy when Poochie had to return to his 'home planet'. And then the note: 'Poochie died on the way back to his home planet'.

[@GregorBarclay]

That was EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw it.

[@nuclearwinter391]

@@GregorBarclay Crusty: 'Poochie's dead! HARHARHAR !' Children: 'YEEAAAAH!' . It was a scene about comically bad writing. And yet still.. it made more sense then Picard.

[@Archphoenix1]

remember when someone called the tentacle robot police to destroy everyone and then forgot about it? no?

[@batmanuel9669]

So the Eugenics Wars haven't happened yet in Nu Trek? I would call Picard crap fanfiction, but that would be an insult to crap fanfiction.

[@samuelcalkin3516]

In did not happen in north america.

[@nicoleackerman205]

I thpught the Eugenics wars happened in the 90's in Trek universe history

[@Blackerer]

"The last time I told a joke, Ive inadvertently changed a centuries worth of history. So I work really hard to not be funny." Consider that mission accomplished Wesley! You may have also learnt your lesson of "Shut up, Wesley!"

[@nerfherder3553]

A long time ago I was known as Wesley crusher now I'm Doctor who.

[@Horrormaster13]

How to "Jump a Shark" with one scene.

[@almightyk11]

Wow, a woman being given a position of power without earning it in a modern show? Consider me shocked

[@axelhopfinger533]

With this Wheaton cameo they have truly put the dingleberry on the turd cake that is Picard.

[@adamheywood113]

From now on I'm referring to Nu Trek as "Star Trek: Upper Decks" As in, upper-decker As in, when one takes a dump in the cistern instead of the bowl

[@michaelbeltran2969]

😂😂😂💀

[@ericstaples7220]

The extent Wesley goes to just to get a date.

[@allen604]

I used to be called Wesley Crusher, but now I'm known as Will Wheaton

[@schnittmagier5515]

Oh boy. I am so excited. Maybe I should start watching newtrek again? It has gone from bad to unwatchable to nightmare and now just like the traveler it seems to have gone beyond the imagination and inverted into some kind of alternative entertainment again. Similar to the joy of classics like "samurai cop"

[@jamesbizs]

Lol he didn’t even bother acting. This is literally just Weaton. Shut up Wesley

[@KazeMunashii]

actually that's canon. wesley was chosen because when he grows up, he's the overseer for a temporal agent office that sits in a pocket dimension outside the timeline.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

His steady job is as a bartender in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. He specializes in Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters

[@NieR.Amanda]

I KNEW it was all Wesley's fault 😂 When CBS is forced to retcon all of the continuity errors they've allowed under Kurtzman they'll do a version of WandaVision's "It Was Agatha All Along"

[@andytay5507]

Wow! I apologize to everyone who guessed it would be Wesley Crusher. Great ending to a plot thread that's been waiting over 2 decades to be realized.

[@GKHTS]

Although I liked that episode where Wesley left with the Traveler, it was the poorest reasoning by the Traveler. Wesley is just a human with no special powers. He didn't suddenly develop them and he didn't pull himself out of time. He just ran to stop what was happening. How the heck would that pull himself out of time. And of course STP is even dumber by having him say he is no longer Wesley Crusher. WTF? Yes you are, you just can travel like the Traveler. Sheesh.

[@flacometal3275]

And even so, he didn't attend to the 1995 Dixie Star Trek Convention, maddening poor Sheldon

[@trinitymdc3974]

I always liked Wesley Crusher. Wil Wheaton did great job of balancing the experiences of a budding genius with the emotions and hormones of a human teenager.

[@DamienCooley]

I am struggling to find words for how sad and angry it makes me that this is now canon. Everyone involved in this show took one of the best and most interesting sci-fi premises and beat it to a bloody pulp while simultaneously shitting on it. I just don't understand why it had to be this way. I am 100% fine with this kind of show being made... but it should have been its own franchise because it absolutely does NOT fit with the style or intent of actual Star Trek. The absolute shitshow of a trainwreck hopped up on meth that must be coming with Season 3 is going to be mind blowingly terrible. Every character is going to get absolutely ruined and there's not a thing any of us can do about it but sit back and watch it happen. Seriously though, I would love to live in an alternate reality where this EXACT same show was made without the Star Trek license and characters.... same actors and everything, except absolutely no references or names from Star Trek. I guarantee if it didn't have the built-in brand recognition, this would have gotten cancelled after 3 episodes if it was lucky.

[@K-Effect]

I think meth would’ve helped

[@basilmcdonnell9807]

Going down the road of Westworld. Anyone remember season 3? No, of course not: no one watched.

[@NicolasConnault]

Well actually there is something we can do: not watch it. There will be no season 3 if no one watches season 2.

[@logangrimnar3800]

"I know what the fans want, even if they dont." *brings back Wesley* "Why doesn't anyone like our show?"

[@cadenrolland5250]

That was the inventive pick up line I ever heard! Sly dog!