Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2
Summary
Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 also sets up a perfect team-up with anotherStar Trek: Picardseason 2 character who could return. Wesley,Star Trek’s original prodigy, makes a triumphant return inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2. As a Traveler at the height of his powers,Wesley mentors the Starfleet hopefuls of the USS Protostarand implements a complex plan to save everyStar Trektimeline from the reality-eating threat of the Loom.
Decades after Travelers were introduced inStar Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Prodigyreveals the full scope of how the cosmic guardians operate - and how cool Travelers are. Since becoming a Traveler, Wesley Crusher has accumulated a wealth of knowledge aboutStar Trek’s multiverse, and he claims he has visited every timeline.Travelers also oversee the Supervisors, agents dispatched to protect specific individuals or planets who are crucial to timelines proceeding as they must.Star Trek: Prodigyseason 2 only whetted the appetite for what Travelers can do - but it’s also evident Wesley could use someone to tourStar Trek’s multiverse with.
How Old Is Wesley Crusher In His Star Trek Comeback?
Wil Wheaton returns as Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: Prodigy, but are the actor and character still the same age like they were in TNG?
Wesley Crusher In Star Trek: Prodigy Set Up A Perfect Picard Character Comeback
Kore Soong Could Be Wesley’s Traveling Companion
Wesley Crusher’s perfect Traveling companion was already introduced by his cameo inStar Trek: Picardseason 2: Kore Soong (Isa Briones). InStar Trek: Picardseason 2’s finale, Wesley popped into 2024 Los Angeles to recruit Kore into the Travelers. Kore is the only surviving clone created by rogue geneticist Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) to be his daughter. After taking down Adam’s attempt to ensure the rise of the dark, alternate Confederation timeline,Kore accepts from Wesley that the galaxy has a greater destiny for her.
Eric Menyuk, who played the Traveler inStar Trek: The Next Generation, makes a voice cameo inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2.
Wesley and Kore Soong could be somethingStar Trekhasn’t seen before: a pair of Traveling companions protecting time and space together. While Wes and Kore could become romantic,they would be just as entertaining as peers who bicker and banter as if they were an old married couple. Perhaps Wesley leans on his experience and tenure while Kore is brash and rebellious. Wesley and Kore are born geniuses, and they could have entirely different approaches to being a Traveler that clash, but they must still work together to keepStar Trek’s multiversebalanced.
Wesley & Kore Soong As Travelers Could Be Their Own Star Trek Show Or Movie
Two Travelers, One Destiny
As Travelers, Wesley Crusher and Kore Soong have no limits as to where and when inStar Trekthey could appear.Of course, the ideal venue for Wesley and Kore isStar Trek: Picardseason 3’s proposed spinoff,Star Trek: Legacy. However,Star Trek: Legacyis potentially years away, if it even happens. Meanwhile, Wesley and Kore have other options, like the upcoming final season ofStar Trek: Lower Decks,Star Trek: Strange New Worldsseasons 3 and 4,Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,and, ideally,Star Trek: Prodigyseason 3.
A Star Trek movie about Wesley and Kore protecting the multiverse together would be limited only by sheer imagination (and budget).
The advent of 2-hourStar Trekmovies made for streaming on Paramount+, beginning withStar Trek: Section 31, could also be a fantastic way to spotlight Wesley Crusher and Kore Soong together as Travelers. AStar Trekmovie about Wesley and Kore protecting the multiverse together would be limited only by sheer imagination (and budget). Audiences have now seenWesley Crusher’s powers as a lone TravelerinStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2, but reuniting Wesley Crusher and Kore Soong creates a never-before-seen dynamic, and would bea perfect way to bring the talents of Wil Wheaton and Isa Briones back toStar Trek.
