153 thoughts on “vote early, vote often”

1. Funny. I didn’t think you were annoying at all. As a matter of fact, I missed seeing you when you “disappeared”. If I had my choice of annoying character (who happened not to be on the list), it was Deanna Troi. She couldn’t make up her mind who she wanted; Waft or Riker. Hell, I wanted both too dammit!!!

2. Dearest Wil – I didn’t see Kirk’s name on most annoying…I think Dr. Crusher was far more annoying then Wesley…Looks like William Shatner put out a call to have the ballot box stuffed too. Am I the only one who found Lavare’s character totally annoying? You should be in 7th place…

3. Alexander’s in the lead. Poor kid.
   My basically irrelevant thoughts on the poll are here http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=juverna&tab=weblogs&uid=217818972.

4. I was born in 1979, and I always wanted to be Wesley. It wasn’t until college that I heard that people hated the lad. I still don’t agree with them.
   That’s my one cent.
   Here’s my other. Of course it has to do with the holodeck question. I understand everybody’s Daxing, I get your Sevening and your Nining. I wholeheartedly approve of the Hoshi fans. But oh my GOD, people, have you forgotten Ensign Ro? 400 times better than Unresolved Sexual Vulcan Tension anyday! I say we all go vote for her…

5. Oooo! I love it when you push your Big Red Button, Wil! All your posse members love it! Vote? Sir, yes, sir! Anything for you, Mr. Wheaton!
   Seriously, though. Neelix was way more annoying than any other character. He made me stop watching “Voyager” in the first place. Kes was a close second, the whiny little bitch. “I only live nine years, so I’m going to be as sedate and naive as possible!” Dude. Give me a break. If I only had nine years to live…well, that’s not appropriate to share here. *efg*
   I was highly disappointed that Wesley wasn’t on the “male character holodeck” question. They were just afraid Kirk would lose if they put hot young Wesley Crusher on the list. Who wouldn’t want to corrupt that minor?
   Okay. Enough Drooling Fangoddessness. Sorry, Anne.
   Justice has been served.
   Herself,
   The Goddess of Justice and Vengeance

6. Hey all, I haven’t read all 100+ comments so if this is a repeat please forgive – you do not have to fill out the entire poll to vote on most annoying – simply do the one category and submit to save time.
   Also, there is a solicitation at the end for new ST series ideas – here is what I submitted:
   ‘Star Trek: Traveler’
   Traveler and former Ensign, Wesley Crusher, covertly observes and occasionally intervenes (as in a slight nudge, here and there) in the course of many cultures’ histories.
   Guest characters could include ALL previous (living actors) Star Trek characters at any point in their lives – prequel, etc.
   Have fun, everyone!

7. Hey Wil,
   I can’t do trackbacks but I am doing my part to spread the word and alter the vote.
   http://shittyblogsclub.blogcafe.com/2005/03/heres-shitty-thing-to-do.html
   Besides, Wesley was alright, besides some of the boneheaded lines he had, he was a good kid. I appreciated the character more when Spike TV ran TNG and I watched those episodes with my son. Wesley was polite, honest, smart and when he got the chance brave. Qualities I think we could all strive towards.

8. Shill for Wil Wheaton? F*** that!! Vote up Tasha Yar!!!

9. Hey, Wil, dont’ feel too bad. Wes /was/ annoying, but only because he was that kid in school who always got everything right. The kid we all liked, but resented as well because he was who we wanted to be but somehow couldn’t. And we resented liking him but couldn’t help it.
   And yeah, the writers did him no favors either. Also, if he’s still making such an impact, isn’t that rather a compliment than the opposite? I mean, he could’ve just been forgettable. Instead, he’s a cultural icon. Be proud.

10. I never found Wesley to be “annoying”, per se. I didn’t YEARN for Wesley-centric episodes, but I didn’t cringe when I watched one. I always thought it was fairly obvious that you were doing the best you could with what you were given. I must confess, though…in a few eps, I DESPERATELY wanted to just reach through the screen and mess up your hair. (It wasn’t bad, it was just verreh, verreh precise. I always thought it would be hilarious if someone were to ruffle it all up and RUN!)
    My vote for most annoying ST: TNG character would probably be Riker, just because he seemed to be written like Kirk v2.0. I still refer to him as The Boy King.

11. Consider it stuffed….the ballot that is.
    When checking out the options I had to chuckle….because there are some far more annoying characters on there than good old Wesley (I will admit that you Wil, were the reason I began watching TNG in the first place).
    So consider Alex Roszhenko (spell?) the most annoying character. YAY!

12. I voted for Phlox as most annoying, on the grounds that I really oughta vote for an Enterprise character there, and I ain’t voting for Hoshi (the real hot babe on that show) as “most annoying.” I note that young Mr. Crusher is currently tied with Q for fifth place in “most annoying,” behind Alexander, The Computer Voice, Mrs. Troi, and Neelix. (Good job, everyone!)
    Other votes: “Make it so” as catchphrase; Data for the Away Team (brains and brawn in one package, how can you go wrong?); Jadzia for a night on the holodeck (2nd choice would probably be Bev, but it’s not something I strongly feel); Chakotay for swinging the other way (I gave what I thought would be Pamela’s answer); Species 8472 for villain (yeah, the Borg are winning, but I wanted to pick the villain that make even the Borg pee their pants!).
    Vote early and often, everyone!

13. Hmm, if Lwaxana, and the Computer’s voice are both at 15% wouldn’t that give Majel Barret-Rodenberry the lead with 30% of the vote?
    … oh .. CHARACTERS…
    blast!

14. By far the most annoying character was Q.

15. Wil, don’t feel to bad. While looking at the TV Guide website I saw a banner ad for Lost in Space season 3 on DVD.
    http://images.tvguide.com/ads/images/lostinspaceSKINTOPpost.jpg
    Poor Billy Mumy’s been cropped from the picture. All you see is a red tribble next to June Lockhart.

16. I voted for Phlox. Never could stand him.

17. I take just one issue with this quiz…
    How could they NOT have included Wesley Crusher in the options for the romantic holodeck evening???
    Will, I think that your own recollections of yourself back then are clouded by all the crap said by all the jealous fellow-geeks who just coudln’t take it that all us geekgirls were ever-so-desperately in love with you instead of them.
    Is it possible that you somehow didn’t know how cute you were (still are)??? May your wife forgive me, but sweetie, you wore that uniform better than any of them. Burgundy suits you. 😉

18. Wesley? Annoying?
    Hmm. I do have to say, he’s pretty much in a three-way tie with Riker & (Deanna) Troi in my book. But at least Wesley had more than one good line (“Shields up!” – “Captain, I’m sensing something hostile…”)
    I’ll have to think about that one.

19. I agree w/naiah.
    I voted for Lwaxana. One of the very few characters who could get me to change the channel. Though Phlox and Kes get honorable mentions.

20. Even if Wesley Crusher were the most annoying character, it was the fault of the early writing on TNG, not the actor.
    But don’t worry, Wil. Wes wasn’t even close to being as annoying as Alexander Whathisface.

21. I’m another viewer who never found Wesley annoying. He was a little bit more earnest and real than many of the other characters. There was some good stuff around his relationship with Picard, and just when Wesley was made an honorary ensign or what have you and became _really_ interesting, he left the ship. Boooo! And looking back, Wheaton was probably one of the better actors on that show.
    To be nerdly, I’d rank the actors (in the context of the show):
    Stewart > Spiner > Wheaton > Dorn > Meaney.
    Troi wasn’t annoying as much as she was completely extraneous.
    Troi’s mother was _supposed_ to be annoying. That was the character.
    Now the character of Worf’s son was truly annoying, a pure brat, and there was too much focus on him later in the show. I cringed every time he appeared on screen.

22. Wesley was not the most annoying character. I actually liked the kid. In the beginning he was a little on the safe side but in the end. I like him in the end. He was….normal. I liked that he got in trouble.
    Madie

23. How on earth could they have left Nurse Chapel out of the running for most annoying?
    Or rather .. How in the universe could they have …

24. March 7, 08:00 Central time.
    In the TV Guide Star Trek poll, the “annoying character” question:
    Alexander Rozhenko (Worf’s son) retains a healthy lead with 17%.
    Luxwana Troi, The Computer Voice, and Neelix continue with strong showings in double digits.
    News: Q (at 10%) has overtaken Wesley Crusher, who is at 9% and falling.
    The WWDN market segment is making its voice known!

25. I *hated* Q…and whats up with Gates McFadden bein’ at only 6%.
    Damn, I remember thinkin’ she was so damn hot! (Of course I love redheads…).
    My chiropractor looks just like her, I love my appointments.
    I once read a Penthouse forum some trekkie wrote about Dr. Beverly and …. oh…sorry…

26. Where’s the poll we take that will convince everyone that Enterprise is actually a good show with good characters and, for the past two seasons, good stories — and that it shouldn’t be canceled at the end of this season?
    The failure of Enterprise most likely means the death of Star Trek on screen. Can we get Wesley to come in and save the day one last time? 😉

27. Don’t worry Will, I don’t think Wes was annoting character. I am loyal Star Trek fan from the Dominican Republic,and believe it or not, I do like Wesley.
    I’ll vote right now…

28. Wil,
    I just finished reading Just a Geek last night (honest!), and I’ve been reading your blog since 11/5/03 (when Neil Gaiman mentioned it on his site). You are really coming into your own as a writer and I’m happy to see the changes you’ve been able to make in the last couple years regarding your attitude towards Trek and your life. I am genuinely happy for you and hope to see more writing AND acting in the future (the sooner the better).
    That being said… I have to confess that I didn’t care for Wesley. I never sent hate mail or anything, but I was part of that overall vibe that you obviously were receiving. Let me clarify that, though I watched the show religiously, I was not a big fan of anyone on the show that first season. It seemed like it took a year or two for the writers to really flesh out the characters and hit their stride, and after that the show really took off for me. But they never really developed Wesley like the rest of the cast. When he got to speak, his lines were sometimes lame and when he was unhappy he just seemed whiny. So, since I wasn’t a teenage girl I didn’t have much to love about him. Later, as you’ve pointed out, they diminished Wesley’s presence as much as possible and he just seemed unnecessary. Then when they threw in the traveller stuff, it just seemed completely wrong to me. It was like someone said, “What can we add to Wesley to make him more popular?” The problem was not that Wesley didn’t have enough specialized traits (brainchild is enough to work with), the problem was that didn’t seem to know how to write a teenager with emotianal resonance. It wasn’t until some of your final episodes that I thought they were finally figuring it out. I remember thinking this specifically the first time I watched the episode with Ashley Judd, in which I thought you/Wes were great (even though I thought the “game” itself looked lame – I never believed anyone would ever have gotten Picard to put that thing on).
    So, to make a long story longer, I just thought you should know that I did find Wesley annoying, I don’t blame you for that, and I’m sorry if I had anything to do with any bad mojo coming your way. On the other hand, I am looking forward to your next book (I’m actually curious to see what a less autobiographical story would be like from you), and I am looking forward to watching your CSI episode and hope it leads to more acting work for you.
    Peace,
    Ross
    ps – I didn’t vote for Wesley.

29. Wesley wasn’t annoying. Not at all. Neelix was annoying. In fact… Neelix is the only one on that list who was annoying. *shrugs*

30. I simply cannot believe that Wesley wasn’t even a choice on the “male character you’d like to spend a romantic evening on the Holodeck with” category.

31. I agree with Littlenicola! Why wasn’t Wesley in that question? We should have a write in option…
    I blogged this, and put a linky to the poll…. Happy to say that alot of people find Alexander more annoying, like I did! Sure, Troi’s mom was obnoxious, but she was also funny. Alexander was just…. ick.
    And the Borg are definitely the scariest!
    Good luck, Wil! I didn’t vote more than once, nope. Not me…. *whistles away*

32. Vote Early. Done.
    Vote Often. Done and Done.

33. This is a Decision 2005 news update!
    In the all-important “Most Annoying Star Trek Character” race, we see that the lead is still held by Alexander Rozhenko. Lwaxana Troi has passed The Computer Voice to move into second place. Q and Wesley Crusher are still tied for fifth place, but each of their percentages has dropped to 9% from the earlier 10%. We’re still not going to call this race yet, but things are looking good for the young ensign.This has been a Decision 2005 news update. Stay tuned next hour for an “in depth” (wink wink, nudge nudge) analysis on the candidates for “Female Character With Whom You’d Most Like To Spend An Evening In The Holodeck.” (cue cheesy music, fade to commercial)

34. You were one of my favorite characters! I voted so I could help you out of the pit 🙂 I told my Dad (a fan also) to go vote too. Hope it helps a little bit anyway! I was sad you weren’t on the male list of who you’d like to spend an evening with (platonic of course to respect your wife lol) Take care!

35. Well, hon, Wesley isn’t even in the top 3 now. I passed the link around to a bunch of friends, who were all in agreement that it was a rip that Deanna Troi wasn’t a choice for “most annoying”. Or was it that there should have been a “most useless” category. Something like that, anyway.

36. nearly every character on Voyager was more irritating than Wesley. Troi the first year of TNG was awful (hand to forehead “I feel…I feeeeel…. Anguish.” Yeah? You must be watching the rushes of your own scenes.)
    Wesley shoulda been on the “hot” list, just so American middle school teachers had someone to vote for (ouch, did I really type that?)
    And I’m a straight woman, but I’d sleep with Jadzia Dax. mama!

37. I’ve never understood the animosity toward Ensign Crusher. My only issue with that character was that it wasn’t developed thoroughly. They had some great ideas, but I think they needed to devote more time to his character development in order to have his story make more sense and touch more people. I’m not certain that you could have done anything more with what they gave you, but I could certainly see that you tried to make the lines work (regardless of how simplistic they sometimes managed to be). I think they needed to give him a bit more grit to make him interesting…he was too nice and vanilla.
    I went over and voted for Alexander Rozhenko, who was truly annoying. That character could have been a work of genius, but the way it was acted (along with the rather crummy storylines he was given) made him a real groaner.

38. Let the albatross go. There’s no way you were more annoying than Neelix.

39. Did anyone else have trouble viewing the survey using Mozilla? I was really bummed to have to open IE just to get TVGuide’s page to load.
    And, more importantly, why wasn’t Wesley one of the choices for “male character you’d most like to spend a romantic evening with on the holodeck?”

40. To be honest, I never really took much notice of Wesley. He was just . . . there. (Found wwdn when I was surfing the net, trying to figure out if I really did see Wesley in Nemesis, and if so what was he doing in a Starfleet uniform? But that’s another story. Since then, I keep coming back to read your blog.)
    I found Lwaxana the most annoying, but then that character was meant to be annoying.
    A little side note: In a new series of STTNG novels, set in the lead up to Nemesis, Wesley gets the girl! Yeah! It’s the “A time to. . .” series.

41. What boggles me is that so few are/were annoyed by that self-rightous old bat, Dr. Pulaski. I’d rather watch old anti-drug after school specials from the Regan years than sit through a syndicated episode of hers.

42. Just stuffed it. For Alexander. Though in retrospect, I have to say I hope Brian Bonsall doesn’t take it personal– there was not a lot the kid could do to make the character likeable, he was written to be the whiniest EVAR. And I bet wearing the “turtle” was putting him in a bad mood, too.
    So Wil, do you ever talk w/Brian about “growing up Trek”?
    Another thing: you s*&k, TV Guide! Where’s my hot male choices??? Where’s my Data? Where’s my Spock? For that matter, I’d do the brain-pulsing aliens from _The Cage_ before I’d do Kirk.

43. I’ve never understood why people saw Wesley Crusher as annoying. I always wanted to be Wesley Crusher.
    I think jealousy is at the root of this problem. Jealousy of both the character and the perceived lifestyle of a young, famous actor that everyone assumed must be having a whale of a time.

44. I know I am coming late to the party, but I have to say it:
    Wesley Crusher _was_ the most annoying character on ST:TNG, my friends and I hated him with a passion. We wanted him to be court martialled and put into a brigg.
    That however has nothing to do with Wil Wheaton, the Geek, to whom I would give my last DVD-R – even if I knew a new OS X seed was coming that very day.
    I did not vote. Not only because I understand that Wil wants to shake that bad karma, but because the site does not render correctly on my browser. And surely, some others have a claim to most annoying, and the actors are not geeks.
    And there is hope: I no longer even usually think of StarTrek when I read about Wil Wheaton, I am sure others feel the same.
    Alex

45. Wesley was annoying… but there were even more annoying choices on the list. Neelix, for example. Voted… and aren’t you on CSI tomorrow night?

46. You know what’s annoying? Seven of Nine winning the “romantic evening” poll. How predictable.

47. Well rats, I wanted to choose “Jean-Luc Picard” but he wasn’t an option… so I went with Neelix instead.
    I was one fo those 12-13 year-old-girls back in the early ST:TNG days and had the biggest crush on Wesley Crusher, despite that ridiculous ensign costume they made you wear the first season! Wesley was definitely NOT the most annoying character! (And you can feel better for the moment, at least, because right now Alexander Rozhenko is currently ahead.)
    And Wil, I just have to say: I’ve been reading for a couple weeks now and am enjoying your site tremendously!

48. Hey Mr. Wil,
    To be honest, I did find Wesley annoying. He never inspired me with hatred or vitriol or even alt.wesley.die.die.die leanings… but annoying? Sure. I never had a crush on him, I never wanted to be him. I just didn’t find it believable that he’d be saving the ship all the time. Not your fault.
    But really, the only reason I care one whit about Wesley now is because of you — Wil Wheaton. And I think you’re such a cool fellow — a good writer, a real person, someone I might be friends with — that I would hate to do anything to hurt your feelings. You’d do the same for me, right?
    So I voted for Q. He seriously was a pain in the ass.
    But how come Sisko isn’t getting any love on the holodeck? Damn, that voice could ask me directions to the corner deli and I’d be at his mercy. And I’m a vegetarian. Yowza.
    Anyway, Wil, you rock. And your dear, sweet Wesley is in 6th place, so never fear. Bring on crazy old Walter!

49. I’m sorry. I can no longer relate to Wesley or any Star Trek character as being annoying. I’ve seen Star Wars Episode 1.

50. I wanted more episodes with Wesley in them, so I obviously didn’t think he was annoying.
    But seriously, time to move on. Wesley was a character, you’re an actor, you played Wesley, that show’s over, Wesley’s history, you’re still acting.
    Every time I see the show Numb3rs, I think of you in the lead role, with that intensity, sharpness and unfailing belief that you’re right.

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