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** The first time I saw ''Datalore'', I dismissed part of the plot as just "[[Creator's Pet|Wesley]] is right but gets [[Cassandra Truth|ignored]] because he's a kid". I saw it again recently and realized that there's a lot more going on. The first time Wesley gets yelled at, they do listen to ''what'' he says (Riker goes to check his theory, and finds some evidence that he's wrong); the reason he gets hassled is that ''how'' he said it was unacceptably rude--not a small deal in a quasimilitary organization like Starfleet. The second time (the infamous "Shut up, Wesley!" scene), if you look closely at Picard's face (and consider that right after that scene, he {{spoiler|sends security to arrest "Data", who--as Wesley realized first--has been replaced by his evil twin}}), you can see that he's figuring everything out for himself. Meanwhile, this annoying kid is talking and talking while he's trying to think and not telling him anything he doesn't know. "Shut up, Wesley" is not an instance of [[Adults Are Useless]]--it's an instance of [[Stop Helping Me!]].