Simon Cooper went through the Academy and rose to be the navigator of the Enterprise-D. Wesley Crusher was on the bridge getting the glory and not even trained for the job.<\/p>\n
“Simon!” Wesley said, “you won’t believe what happened today!”<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t guess.”<\/p>\n
“An spatial anomaly opened in our flightpath, and a space worm emerged! Captain Picard ordered Red Alert. Data seized up, and were it not for me we’d have died! I received a commendation in Captain Picard’s log!”<\/p>\n
A commendation. The glory should have been Cooper’s. “Duty calls.”<\/p>\n
“I understand.”<\/p>\n
Cooper’s first duty was to eliminate Wesley Crusher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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