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Wesley Crusher.
As a kid watching TNG, I loved Wesley Crusher. It made me feel like I could be part of that crew now and not in some hypothetical future when I grew up. I know that wasn't the goal of the character, but it meant a lot to kid me
Wesley Crusher isn't that bad of a character, and while he is kind of obnoxious and insufferable early on, Wil Wheaton never should have been blamed for that. The problem is with Eugene Wesley Roddenberry shoehorning a highly idealized self-insert character into the show, overriding the writers every time they tried to prevent Wesley from being written as a messiah character, and using his executive power to rewrite scripts so the wonderful, smart, kind, brilliant, handsome, young ~~Gene~~ Wesley saves the day by being amazing. You can't blame a character or an actor for bad writing and a weird old man's desire to groom a protégé.