While I never read the original book, that endeavor is not necessarily required because Still Just a Geek presents the entire affair once again, warts and all. Still Just a Geek is a slightly updated and annotated version of Wheaton’s 2002 book, Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise. Now, I believe that “The Boy” has an academic use because Still Just a Geek is a man confronting a boy and all of his artificial edginess, snark, homophobia, and misogyny. Especially after reading Wil Wheaton’s book, Still Just a Geek which I was graciously given an advanced copy of for review.Īnother insult that Trekkies threw Wesley’s way was calling him “The Boy,” an affectation of Captain Picard early in the series where he refused to call Wesley by his name. Now, to be honest, I feel pretty guilty about it. Sure, on the surface with my friends and fellow Trek nerds, I was an endless torrent of, “Wesley sucks!” and “Shut up, Wesley!” and the other soundbites that I thought that others would find generally acceptable, but the truth is, when I saw Wesley Crusher, this wide-eyed boy not much older than I was in 1987, walk onto the bridge of the USS Enterprise and get offered a chance to sit at the helm and pilot the ship, I was green with envy, a white hot jealousy of a fictional character I had never felt before even with that awful Rainbow Brite uniform! When I watched the adventures of Captain Kirk, Spock, Doctor McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty, and Uhura, I thought, “I can be that when I’m older.” When I watched Wesley, I thought, “I can be that now.”īut I was an edgy little jackass and pretended to hate him because that was considered cool. Do you want to know one of my dirtiest secrets? One of the secrets I have kept bottled up in my brain for over 30 years now?
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