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I post about lots of stuff but for right now it’s mostly Stranger Things cause you should never underestimate the bond between someone and the mediocre piece of media they began hyperfixating on as a tween.
My large collection of Stranger Things text posts can be found here.
Other stuff I've posted about lots:
i hope the future has figured out how to get rid of periods because beverly crusher has suffered enough
The Wesley and Jaxa dynamic to me is like… so Jaxa’s bajoran, her life has not been the greatest to say the least, she had to claw and scrape her way to the academy and to starfleet and she actually manages to get there and things are going well for her and she’s on this elite team and she’s not just in starfleet she’s The Future of Starfleet. And then this spoiled brat who grew up using the federation’s flagship as his own personal playground also gets added to this team and he’s nice but you kind of hate him because how come he got all of this stuff he just got to waltz in here he hasn’t had to work for it the same way you have. But then time goes on and you actually get to know this guy and you learn that even if it’s in a completely different way to you he’s one of the few people here who understands the costs of war and loss so there’s this weird camaraderie between the two of you because even if you’re coming at it from completely different angles you both Get It in a way very few other people do. And then you kill one of your other friends together and you feel guilty about it, you both do, but you can’t go back to your life before which is what would happen to you if you got found out so you agree to keep it a secret you all agree to the cover up. But then he goes rogue and sells you all out and he’s selfish and a brat and how could he do this to you does he not understand what he’s sending you back to? But then you’re not expelled but your life is ruined anyway and you’re back to clawing and scraping for everything and none of you talk anymore. And then you finally make it through all of this bullshit and you’ve graduated and you’re in starfleet but you’re posted to the ship he grew up on and you’re surrounded by all of this stuff from his stories. And his mother is there giving you your medical checkups and you know that Captain Picard like Shakespeare and horses and you know Commander Riker likes poker and jazz music and you know Counsellor Troi loves chocolate and has a weird relationship with her mother and you know Commander Data likes painting and Sherlock and they all vaguely know you but you can never acknowledge it because that means acknowledging The Incident which you’re not doing because you’re moving on from that even if your environment refuses to let you do so. You will never be able to move on from it while you’re there but you have nowhere else to go nowhere else will take you so you try to please these people as best you can even if it means killing yourself to do it.
And then she dies and for Wesley it’s like you find out and she died on the ship you grew up on and the people who you trusted with your life so many times just let her die and it’s not fair. And you’re already miserable and dead inside and then Jaxa dies and they just let her. Picard let her die just like he let your father die. And your father is dead and Tasha is dead and Josh is dead and now Jaxa’s dead and it’s all because of goddamn starfleet and it all feels so meaningless and they all just let her die and what’s even the point anymore?
Imagine if your deaddad’s bestfriendbrotherlover who was also your deadbeatcaptaindad and who accidentally killed your deaddad tried to turn you into your deaddad but then you accidentally killed your own bestfriendbrotherlover so instead you were like your deadbeatcaptaindad and his disgust at himself and his past mistakes got turned on you and you internalised all of it because you’d spent your whole life seeking his approval and by proxy your deaddad’s approval along with it but unlike your deadbeatcaptaindad you could never just get your shit together (aka repress your feelings) enough to just move on with your life so you’re not your deaddad and you’re not your deadbeatcaptaindad you’re just you and you is a failure who failed. This all really happened to my friend Wesley Crusher
Shannon Rutherford and Sayid Jarrah in Lost 2x06 “Abandoned”
I wish we got to know more about Beverly’s relationship with her grandmother but I am reading so much into the little crumbs we get. Like, we get the idea in Sub Rosa that Beverly loves her very much and they were very close once, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. They mention that Beverly’s barely been to visit her in the last 20 years, and this lines up with Wesley not even being at the funeral - does he even know his great-grandmother? Beverly didn’t know her Nana was dating someone (and that doesn’t seem to be because of the whole ghost sex candle thing cause Beverly happily told everyone that she was dating that same ghost) and it just really seems like they’re not close.
And Felisa has a framed photo with Beverly in her starfleet uniform but how does she really feel about starfleet? Like this is a woman who was present during an undefined disaster on a federation colony, lost her child and was left to raise her orphaned grandchild, used holistic medicines to help people survive after the traditional medicines ran out, and then moved herself and her granddaughter out to what was basically a historic recreation colony. She retreated to and raised Beverly in a simulacrum of the past. How did she feel about her granddaughter leaving to join starfleet, the epitome of progress, modernisation and movement? Is that what drove a wedge between them?
Or is this just another example of Beverly’s tendency to keep the people she loves at a distance? Did she just isolate herself and stop talking to her and stop visiting because if she’s close to people then losing them will hurt more?
More from The Beverly and Wesley Show now also featuring Very Important Character Sito Jaxa
Wesley Crusher as a character is just so fascinating to me. He’s a child prodigy genius with no friends. A weird god-like time travelling alien starts stalking him when he’s fifteen. Because of this alien he ends up with a job on the federation’s flagship as a teenager. Over the next four seasons everyone proceeds to act like it’s completely normal that he works there now and no one ever questions the child labour of it all. The only people he’s close to are at minimum twice his age. He got the death penalty for stepping on a flower bed. He got stabbed through the chest and fully died once. His mother leaves him to be raised by their coworkers for a year when he’s just sixteen. He accidentally created new life while doing a science project one time. He technically failed his academy entrance exams twice but Picard still made him a full ensign anyway just because he felt like it. He was at the helm during the Borg attack and has to live with the fact that if they hadn’t found a last minute way out of that shit he would’ve crashed the Enterprise into the Borg ship and killed everyone on board. His last episode as a main before he goes off to the academy is about him nearly dying of dehydration in a cave and the whole time he’s just going “actually, I think I’m the luckiest boy in the whole wide world”. He finally makes some friends his own age and then he accidentally but recklessly helps cause the death of one of them. He participates in a cover-up to try and hide this but then he’s found out, gets held back a year at school and looses pretty much everything he’d been working for since he was fifteen. He burns out, becomes severely depressed and isolates himself from everything. He goes on a stereotype of a Native American Vision Quest, decides to drop out of uni and helps incite an uprising against the federation. It’s at this moment when he’s at his absolute lowest that the aforementioned weird god-like time travelling alien turns up and convinces him to leave behind everything he’s ever known to also become a weird god-like time traveller. This is framed as the correct choice for him to make. I didn’t even list half of the crazy traumatising shit that happened to that boy. About 95% of the stuff that happened to him is never addressed and the other 5% is only ever addressed briefly as they try to convince us that Wesley is fine, actually
CRUSHER: Wesley's allergic to metorapan treatments. I think they'll have to use a bicaridine substitute. I should send his complete records to the Academy infirmary. Of course, they probably have them already, but you can't be too sure. PICARD: Beverly. He's fine. CRUSHER: I know he's fine. I know he's fine.
I was rewatching TNG and in "The First Duty," this scene is always so fascinating to me. Beverly's clinical detachment seems so obvious at first. She's a doctor, of course she's defaulting to her intellect to discuss her son's injuries, his needs.
But then I wondered...was she like this when Jean-Luc told her about Jack? Had she been a doctor long enough to switch so readily into this psychological skill? Or was it different because he was her husband? Because he was dead? Did she default to her intellect then, too, as an armor against grief?
Or had she learnt to do that as a child, after losing her parents, after treating sick and injured people with her Nana and seeing them die despite it? Did all those early losses make her detach?
Was the challenge for her in becoming a doctor not learning how to distance her feelings from the healing, but to reconnect to them?
Or was Jack's death what changed her? Did her reaction to that moment scare her? Was it so intense, so deeply felt, that loss, that she vowed she would never let herself be so overcome again?
In this moment, thinking not that she'd lost Wesley, but that she could have and that she knew that, was it the beginning of what was to come so much later? When she left rather than have to endure loss again? And in that process, losing so much more? Joy, peace, love, safety.
Doctor, heal thyself. But to heal you have to feel. And she knew that, on some level, because we saw her treat patients with empathy and compassion.
But what about this wound in herself that she could never stitch up? That she tried so hard to keep closed, but that was always getting ripped open again.
That she could hide so easily, because it never healed enough to leave a scar?
The Next Generation checking in on Worf’s son: He’s in class playing with clay and making a cup for his dad 🥰
The Next Generation checking in on Beverly’s son: He just killed his friend. He’s taking part in a cover-up and doctoring evidence. His entire starfleet career that he’s been working for since he was 15 is going up in flames. His life will never be the same again after this.
The Next Generation’s ending for Worf’s son: Sometimes the predetermined path your parents have set out for you is not the path you should take or need to take, and that’s ok. Your parents have to and can understand that. You have plenty of time to forge your own path and enjoy your childhood before you have to worry about your future 🥰
The Next Generation’s ending for Beverly’s son: Sometimes the predetermined path your parents have set out for you is not the path you should take or need to take, and that’s ok. Your parents have to and can understand that. However you do have to follow another predetermined path that someone else has set out for you. And that path does involve leaving behind everything you’ve ever known to run off with the guy who’s been grooming you for this since you were a teenager. And you’ve already wasted your whole childhood. Sorry about that.
There are many things I’ve fallen in love with when it comes to Beverly Crusher however very near the top of the list is the fact that she doesn’t give a fuck about the prime directive. Like they break the prime directive all the time in Star Trek (if they didn’t things would get pretty boring) but most characters at least pretend that they don’t want to break it. Beverly doesn’t even try to pretend, she jumps at any opportunity to break it. She hates that shit and will openly tell everyone that she thinks it’s stupid. She doesn’t care if she’s breaking the federation’s number one rule, if there are people who need help she will try to help them and you’d better not try and stop her
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The Traveler's relationship to Wesley feels so predatory, and it is clear that he is able to bond with him so quickly because of how dismissive and rude everyone else on the ship is to Wes. Ends up being pretty good commentary on children's liberation, which Star Trek doesn't usually touch. Of course, there's also the fact that I'm not sure how intended that predatory vibe is
To be clear, I don't even mean the "The Traveler gives off literal pedophilic vibes" the way a lot of people say, though I certainly won't call that an unfounded reading. But even just looking at the Traveler's textual relationship to Wesley, it very much feels as though he has purposely engineered the situation in Where No One Has Gone Before to force him to access his own latent ability to become a Traveler, something that will fundamentally alter Wesley's relationship to his body and personhood, and, as we see in Prodigy, is a nightmare for his mental health. And he does this without providing Wesley with any information on what it will mean for him or allowing him a choice. The closest he comes to seeking consent is by telling Picard- an adult with authority over Wesley who has already repeatedly used that authority to demean and control him- that he needs to nuture the seed the Traveler is planting in Wesley.
Not to say that not becoming a Traveler would necessarily have been better for Wes- as mentioned, he gets treated pretty terribly in his life as a regular human and he later becomes the poster child for gifted kid burnout. But that doesn't change the fact that the Traveler sought out Wesley and backed him into a corner to completely change his life without even trying to get meaningful consent.
I know he's literally part of a group called the Watchers, but the way he appears in Remember Me responding to something Wesley just said like he's been watching him!! Leave him alone!!!
Star Trek TNG but Beverly Crusher runs the entire ship
Star Trek: The Next Generation - “Remember Me” (4x05)
Really enjoyed The Beverly and Wesley Show. Only criticism is that I wish there was more Beverly and Wesley. That bald guy who kept showing up and interrupting them was super distracting
