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- 31 de Dic, 2018
Wesley was Gene's self-insert of how he viewed himself as a kid. Riker was supposed to be him at middle-age.Admittedly Roddenberry had a hard-on for Wesley Crusher and god only knows what Wheaton (or his family) had to do behind the scenes to become the benefactor of that affection. Since Roddenberry loved the character so much it's only natural that he gave him the benefit of the doubt to project his hopes that he'd grow up to be a handsome and well-built man. His rose-colored lenses concerning Wesley Crusher probably blinded him to the reality of the scrawny little shit portraying him and his inevitably scrawny adult form.
Gene humbly allowed that he wasn't quite as smart as Wesley.