What polarity can we reverse today?

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I liked the basic premise behind Wesley Crusher (boy supergenius), but he was SO poorly written. No angst, no frustration, no anger, no failures, nobody who didn't like him (nobody on the show, I mean). But then, a LOT of the early STTNG characters (ALL of them?) were poorly written. For instance, Worf's character was horrible at first, and Tasha's lines were so bad that she was unrecoverable so they had to kill her off.