<P> He is next seen sitting next to his mother in the background of the wedding scenes in the feature film Star Trek: Nemesis . In a scene deleted from the movie, Captain Picard asks Crusher if he is excited to serve on board the USS Titan (Captain Riker's ship), and Crusher tells him that he will be running the night shift in Engineering, which would have indicated that Wesley returned to Starfleet at some point prior to the events of the film, if the scene had not been deleted . </P> <P> The Wesley Crusher character was unpopular among more than a few Star Trek fans . Many fans considered the character to be a Mary Sue and a stand - in for Gene Roddenberry, whose middle name was "Wesley". The character's role in the show was greatly downplayed after the first season when Roddenberry's involvement in the show's production became more peripheral, and he was written out altogether in the season four episode "Final Mission" following the end of Roddenberry's hands - on involvement . </P> <P> Some fans disliked the idea of a boy who seems to constantly save the whole ship as a deus ex machina plot device . Commentators have observed at least seven times in which Wesley, "who has trouble getting into the Starfleet Academy" and is on a ship "filled with Starfleet's best and brightest crew members", has come up with "the needed solution". Fans' dislike for Wesley Crusher has become somewhat of a pop - culture meme, reflected in other TV shows such as The Big Bang Theory and in a 2009 Family Guy episode, "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", which included the main The Next Generation cast and featured Wil Wheaton in character as Wesley being bullied by Patrick Stewart . </P>

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