Hi there!
This is a brief aside on ST:TNG.
I've not been a fan of the character of Wesley (huge fan of Will Wheaton, he's hilarious on his Youtube/webpresence and has a good eye as a director/producer, just not a fan of the character in ST:TNG, and was happy when he ran away with the Space Apache's)
I don't know if other fans of ST:TNG have had similar ideas for a comicbook/episode of the show, but to my knowledge at time of writing nothing similar has yet been made.
I humbly offer for your enjoyment a 'what if', a universe that never had Wesley in it... but also in which Data doesn't die in Nemesis (a fair trade, I think).
So,
here's what happened in one of the ST:Multiverses...
At the end of Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode...
there is a little postscript scene,
Picard asks Q for a favor, because Q is somewhat impressed with what Picard managed to do (and there are several other junctures where Q could offer Picard a free wish to be rid of Wesley).
Picard asks Q to 'take care of the boy'. Q can read minds, so there's a thousand yard stare and a through zoom (sorta like Weird Al in "Aluminum Foil" where he's 'cracked the code'... except with a John DeLancie laughing maniacally).
Q then quite pleasantly begrudgingly agrees to take care of the boy alright, you won't even know he's gone...
Q snaps his fingers, and screen flashes white.
When Q's gone, Picard can't remember what he was doing, then remembers that he was looking for his datapad on the desk...
(Q has abducted Wesley to the mirror universe, and effaced Wesley's existence from the 'prime-verse'. No one remembers him or will know he's gone, it's like he was never even there.)
MEANWHILE.
Wesley finds himself banfed to an empty arena, in the mirror universe, someplace...
Q appears and tells Wesley he's in a mirror pocket universe as punishment for having offended Picard/being an obstacle between Picard and Beverly. Q also reiterates that there's no way for Wesley to escape this mirror universe, and that no-one will ever know he was ever alive in the prime universe...
Q pauses, then remembers to tell Wesley that he's about to meet his mirror universe self, and that the two of them should get along great! Have fun! and Q banfs away.
Mirror Universe Wesley and Prime-Verse Wesley then duel to the death. There are many combatants initially, and so its more like a Roman Circus, until the last two standing are Prime-verse Wesley and Alternate Wesley. The two battle in scenes reminiscent of Spock V Kirk... until simul-death, and so there was NEVER a Wesley Crusher, in either the Prime-Verse Universe OR the Mirror Universe.
Thanks Q!
(NB: Will Wheaton, or fans of Wesley Crusher, if you're reading this,
its the character itself I dislike in the show. I've seen similar rants against Neelix, comparing Neelix to Deanna Troi or to Jar Jar Binks... Will Wheaton the actor acted and portrayed a great character with a great range of emotion and verisimilitude, I just didn't like the character when taken in context of the airtime that character had vs other characters development and arcs. I also didn't like that Data dies in Nemesis; Data oughta become a Professor as seen in the last episode of the show (which was also a Q episode).
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