The End of Wesley?

[Jeremy B. Edward]

So you want to know how Wesley croaks, huh? Well, it goes
something like this...

Ole Wes' is playing with himself on the holodeck one day when the
Enterprise runs into a freak ion storm. The computer system crashes,
taking the holodeck with it. The holodeck, fortunately, takes Wesley
with it! Unfortunately, the others succeed in getting him out again.
However, instead of coming out of the holodeck as Wesley, he comes
out one of the replicators as a dish of gaach (gaak? You now, that
Klingon dish with the live worms in it?) and is promptly served to a
visiting Klingon delegation.

The Klingons leave, and their ship is destroyed. It seems that when
these live worms burst out of their innards, one goes mad and blows
up the ship. The worms are scattered over many different planets by
the force of the blast. Being genius level worms (after all, this is Wes
we are talking about) it/they realise that it/they must all reunite for
there to be any chance of reconstituting the original Wesley Crusher.

This epic attempt forms the basis for the TNG movie, Star Trek VII,
the Search for Wes. You see, Picard and Co. have found out that
despite his disappearance, Wesley *still* isn't dead, and they are
determined to seek him out. All they have are vague clues that he
might be on this planet or that. The Enterprise methodically follows
up on each clue, visiting every planet on the list. They find no trace
of Wesley, but get frequent reports of infestations of worms
attacking the spaceports and attempting to get on the spacecraft.
Helping the natives deal with worms is not a violation of the prime
directive, so they pitch in with gusto, trying everything in their
worm killing arsenal. This includes gas, poison, chemicals, acid,
flamethrowers, electrocution, thermite, liquid nitrogen, gamma rays,
X-rays, nuclear weapons, phasers, photon torpedoes, country and
western music, particle beams, plasma bolts and fish hooks.

The movie ends with the crew of the Enterprise saddened by their
failure to find Wesley, but glad that they have saved the Federation
from an annoying plague of worms.

One of the worms, however, has escaped! The remaining
wesley/worm realises that it is now no longer possible to
reconstitute Wesley by reuniting all the worms, since they are all
dead (what one worm feels, all feel). Somehow, he must travel back
in time and prevent the original accident from happening!

He steals a starship (an impressive feat for an ordinary worm, but
not for a wesley/worm!) and travels to the Guardian of Forever. He
slithers into the Guardian's time field. The Guardian promptly spits
him out again, but success! He is Wesley again, and aboard the
Enterprise again!

Unfortunately for him, it is the original Enterprise. The computer
informs him that the crew has left the ship, which is currently
orbiting the planet `Genesis'. Wes says `but wait, that is a decaying
orbit! The ship will enter atmosphere in five seconds and burn up!'
And, since he is Wesley and a genius, of course he is right, and his
remains are splattered across several continents.

This is the Genesis planet, however, and if Spock comes back to life,
so does Wesley. He realises that he is not alone on the planet, and
goes in search of his only `neighbour'. Finally, in the distance he sees
Kirk and the landing party that has come to rescue Spock.
Unfortunately, they are not expecting anyone else on the planet, and
beam up, leaving Wesley behind. The planet then blows up,
scattering Wesley's atoms across that part of the galaxy.

The End ?

Jeremy