From: rbeck@mordor.dseg.ti.com (Ron Beck)
Subject: Re: Star Trek writers make another continuity mistake
Reply-To: rbeck@mordor.dseg.ti.com
Organization: is an esoteric concept.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:31:44 GMT

In article <92352.081554JSP6@psuvm.psu.edu>, Jeffrey S. Payne <JSP6@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|> In article <kboss35.724529939@ursa>, kboss35@ursa.calvin.edu (Karen Boss) says:
|> 
|> >>I have noted some continuity mistakes also....it seems that at one point they
|> >say that Wes was only a baby when his father died....but then, after some
|> >thinking and a slight discovery, a friend and I figured out that he had to
|> >have
|> >been at least 5 years old.....
|> 
|> >In "The Bonding", when Wes was asked to relate how he felt when he found out  s
|> >hi
|> >dad died, he said he acted like everyone expected him to...so he had to have
|> >been old enough to understand death....
|> 
|> >It was "Encounter at Farpoint" when Beverly brought Wes with her on the
|> >Turbolift that Picard saw him for the first time since Jack's death.  Picard
|> >didn't recognize Wesley.....was it because Wes had been just a baby at the    ?
|> >time
|> 
|> >It just doesn't seem to fit somehow.....can anyone clear it up for me?  Or am
|> >I
|> >correct in thinking that this was another goof-up by the writers?
|> 
|> >Please reply!!!!!
|> 
|> I think I can clear this up....When did your mom stop regarding you as a baby?
|> My mom stopped calling me "her baby" at around 10 or 12, but I don't think she
|> ever believed that I grew up...
|> 
Do you have any young relatives that you see on an infrequent basis? 
For example, I haven't seen my niece from my brother's first wife for
the last 7 years.  And I only saw her once about 3 years after she was
born.  So, I remember her as a baby when I helped changed diapers,
when she was three playing on her Big Wheel, and again at 10 when she
and her mom had a 2 hour layover in town while heading to California. 
Believe me, she looked a *LOT* different at 10 then she did at 3.  So,
it's no surprise that Picard didn't recognize Wes.

Now, as to how old he was at the time of his dad's death is hard to
determine from the cues we've been given throughout the series.  We've
heard that he was just a baby, that he was old enough to get mad at
Picard when his dad was brought home, etc...  Then there was the
episode with the recorded hologram where Wes' dad was talking to him
in his cradle.  So, I would say somewhere between 18 mos and 3-4 years
old.  Of course that's IMHO.
Ron
|> Jeff Payne
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|>  combustion of someone you don't like? That sort of thing..."
|>        -Q to Amanda in "True Q", ST-TNG

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