In this one cameo, Wesley retroactively became the boss of Gary Seven from The Original Series and Tallinn from Picard. On top of that, Wesley/the Traveler is also in charge of the mysterious “Supervisors” and “Watchers,” who make sure that the flow of time on Earth (and elsewhere) stays the way it should. Twenty-eight years after we saw Wesley in TNG, he’s become a timeless being who thinks of himself as the Traveler. Wesley/the Traveler (Wheaton) and Kore (Isa Briones) in the Season 2 finale of Picard. “When came to me and told me what they were thinking, I almost fainted. “The Wesley Crusher, who I kind of made up and imagined based on the last time we saw him canonically in Star Trek, turns to be awfully similar to the Wesley Crusher, who now canonically exists in the Star Trek universe,” Wheaton says.

Other than a very brief cameo in Star Trek Nemesis, this was the last time we heard from Wesley in Trek canon, which all changed in the Picard Season 2 finale. In the season 7 episode, “Journey’s End,” the Traveler recruited Wesley to gallivant around all of space and time, using nothing but the power of their minds. I mean, that’s just a Time Lord with more steps.” “That’s just a Time Lord with more steps.”Īlthough Wheaton left TNG as a series regular in the season 4 episode, “Final Mission,” he returned as Welsey in a handful of episodes. “And for years, I have thought space and time and thought are not disconnected the way people think they are.

“I have spent an incredible amount of time thinking: what would be going on in Wesley Crusher’s universe?” Wheaton tells Inverse. These powers would give him the ability to manipulate space and time. But in the episode “Where No One Has Gone Before,” a mysterious alien called The Traveler (Eric Menyuk) revealed to Jean-Luc that Wesley had special latent abilities. Starting in 1987, Wesley (Wheaton) was a precocious teenager on Picard’s Enterprise, who eventually joined Starfleet formally in The Next Generation. Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) says goodbye to his mother, Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) in the TNG episode, “Journey’s End.” In Picard Season 2, we finally found out what happened to Wesley next.

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