Captain Picard shouting “Shut up, Wesley” within the season 1 Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology episode “Datalore” has gone down in historical past as one of the vital well-known strains within the sequence. Now the hate for Wesley Crusher, performed by Wil Wheaton, has at all times been overblown however even individuals who like Wesley must admit, this line is hilarious.
But when issues had gone slightly in another way within the historical past of Star Trek, Picard could have shouted “shut up, Wesley” for extra than simply talking out of activate the bridge. In actual fact, he may need gotten to truly say, “shut up about your dubs v. subs opinions, Wesley” as a result of Wesley nearly had a poster of anime ladies in his quarters. Sure, an precise room on the Enterprise-D was nearly adorned with an anime poster. Particularly of the characters Kei and Yuri from the ‘80s anime basic, Soiled Pair.
For these not within the know, Soiled Pair started as a sequence of sunshine novels by Haruka Takachiho and later turned an anime in 1985. The sequence follows Kei and Yuri, a pair of “hassle consultants” who exit into the galaxy coping with varied sci-fi issues. A pleasant mixture of comedy, science fiction, and motion, Soiled Pair made its manner out of Japan and into the arms of early anime fandom and one Rick Sternbach.
A manufacturing illustrator/designer for lots of the entries within the Star Treokay franchise, Sternbach and different members on his staff typically hid Soiled Pair references all through Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology. A component on the periodic desk, glimpsed in TNG’s Rascals, is called “Keiyurium” after the anime’s lead characters. The wargame simulation train in “Peak Efficiency” was named “Operation Beautiful Angel,” a reference to the title Kei and Yuri most popular to name themselves. Knowledge, as a part of his major system modules, has a “Kei/Yuri submodule.”
