From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   GeneK wrote:   
   > "Wickeddoll" wrote   
   >> You didn't like his Chekov? I always thought he was sweetly naive.   
   >    
   > I always found Chekov incredibly annoying. It was as if Star Trek had    
   > been revised from a live-action science fiction pulp magazine to a    
   > Saturday morning cartoon with kid characters in it. That was what I    
   > thought as a high school age viewer, so you can probably imagine what my    
   > reaction to the appearance of Wesley Crusher was 20 years later.   
   >    
   > This is not necessarily a dig at Koenig, as he probably just played the    
   > role the way someone told him to.   
   >    
   > GeneK   
      
   Well they wanted him as competition for Davey Jones of all people, so    
   the role couldn't have been taken very seriously.   
      
   I didn't care for Wesley either, but Wil Wheaton's a hoot - ever read    
   his blog? www.wilwheaton.net. Effing hilarious! I've met him at cons    
   too - here is he with my daughter in a terribly overexposed pic:   
      
   http://www.wegrokspock.net/pageimages/WheatonKatie08A.jpg   
      
   I had a manual SLR at the time, and knew squat about how to use it,    
   obviously.   
      
   Natalie   
   --    
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