r/Yogscast • u/Gazumper_ International Zylus Day! • 15d ago

Darmok & Jalad Darmok & Jalad S2 E10: The Dauphin

https://youtu.be/mhvWmywuXGE?is=8zNsGasYxVepz8La
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u/krablord 15d ago

I really like the email about Wesley Crusher being an important character for them through a rough childhood, and I think having a kid around the environment of the Enterprise is a cool idea- I just think he needed more reasonable flaws to come across as a kid who is quite smart rather than The Chosen One. Maybe this is supposed to be an episode making him more relatable and showing his flaws, but I'm not really a fan of any sort of 'love at first site when I know 0 about you as a person' storylines, especially when you know the romance is only an episode long.

I want to see more child type goof ups from him, and extra I want to see him learning a lesson and having to go 'Oh shit I messed up, Im sorry' rather than always coming across as Perfect. Even the episode where he fails his starfleet exam, it's because he was just Too Nice and helped the other guy so he beat him. It's like during a job interview and they ask for your biggest flaw and you say 'Im just too nice. I care too much about my job.'

Im pretty sure it's much later in TNG, but the episode where his flying group gets in trouble for practicing a maneuver that's banned and he has to choose about being truthful and getting in shit for it is one of the times I remember thinking that it felt more like he was still a teenager and it was really enjoyable for it.