I think ST always did itself a disserive when the creators strayed too far from the TOS/TNG layout.STO Ships are Canon! | Star Trek Online
So, a couple ships from STO are getting brought into canon. Sort of, it's Picard and I still refuse to acknowledge it as being real star trek. But I suppose it fixes the issue of Picard reusing and copy pasting designs, since at least taking stuff from STO lets them use a wider variety of models.
The four ships chosen are....odd. They're all updated redesigns of Canon ships:
Miranda: Reliant
Shepard: Gagarin
Galaxy: Ross
Nebula: Sunderland
That's a very odd decision, because canonically I don't think the federation have ever built one of these redesign ships, every class is its own design, at most it will echo a past design (like the Nebula echoing the Miranda). STO has a number of unique designs, like the Avenger, the Odyssey, the command battlecruisers, the Jupiter carrier, etc, that would fit into canon just fine.
And additional oddity is the Ross and the Sunderland. The Nebula class is based on the Galaxy, sharing the same saucer and nacelles and having a very similar secondary hull.
However, the Sunderland class is not based on the Ross, it's based on a different GCS descendent, the Andromeda class. It's very strange to break the link between the two ships by not having the two designs match.
The Defiant, Prometheus and NX class were pretty cool.I think ST always did itself a disserive when the creators strayed too far from the TOS/TNG layout.
Once you've got a design paradigm you should stick to it.
First ContactWas the Akira introduced in TNG or DS9,btw?
Wesley was a self-insert created by Berman or Braga.As someone who is something of an outsider when it comes to Star Trek, might I ask what is going on with Wesley Crusher? From the bits I've seen of him he strikes me as a rather irritating character who's reputation among fans isn't undeserved, although it seems I've only scratched the surface. Just how bad is he?
On top of that though, for some reason there's also an avalanche of reddit posts defending him. As in, to the point where people trip over themselves to defend almost to the extent that New BSG fans defend Gaius Baltar (one of the worst people in fiction, who's hands are drenched in blood, and an he's insufferable author's pet to boot).
I thought Wesley was Rodenberry's special little character given how he was treated and such in Seasons 1-3 then got dropped like a hot potato after his death.Wesley was a self-insert created by Berman or Braga.
So, the quintessential Mary Sue.
Some people actually liked Wil Wheaton because at one point he pushed himself as a nerd and a friend to the fans.
However, he is in actuality a massive suck up and shill.
Wesley IIRC went on a trip with some omnipotent alien called the Traveler,IIRC,there was an excellent fic where said creature assimilated him.
He's a literal Gary Stu created by Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. Basically a boy wonder who none of the grown-ups listen to, which the writers apparently didn't know how to handle to well, and rapidly devolved into a running joke of how lame the character was. This was, of course, really unfair to Wil Wheaton, as the writers would gang up on him at conventions right along with the fans, even though it was them that wrote his character that way.As someone who is something of an outsider when it comes to Star Trek, might I ask what is going on with Wesley Crusher? From the bits I've seen of him he strikes me as a rather irritating character who's reputation among fans isn't undeserved, although it seems I've only scratched the surface. Just how bad is he?
On top of that though, for some reason there's also an avalanche of reddit posts defending him. As in, to the point where people trip over themselves to defend almost to the extent that New BSG fans defend Gaius Baltar (one of the worst people in fiction, who's hands are drenched in blood, and an he's insufferable author's pet to boot).
Dunno, he might have been Rodenberry's self-insert, but he sucked off one of the B&Bs.I thought Wesley was Rodenberry's special little character given how he was treated and such in Seasons 1-3 then got dropped like a hot potato after his death.
I think ST always did itself a disserive when the creators strayed too far from the TOS/TNG layout.
Once you've got a design paradigm you should stick to it.
Should've picked one of STO's more unique looking designs, like the Destiny.
The Defiant, Prometheus and NX class were pretty cool.
As for how bad he is, he's at his worst in the first season. Literally the first regular episode, they get the crew drunk, and he was no exception.
This is fairly typical of Wesley stories later in his time on the show, though toward the end of his run he also occasionally gets to save the ship for stupid shit like addictive games and even got to make out with Ashley Judd.
Wil Wheaton actually hates the ST character he played.Some people actually liked Wil Wheaton because at one point he pushed himself as a nerd and a friend to the fans.
However, he is in actuality a massive suck up and shill.
Yeah, and aside for playing himself on Big Bang Theory and narrating some of Scalzi's crap he hasn't done anything since then.Wil Wheaton actually hates the ST character he played.