“There is a thing that happens in science fiction where there are characters that have something that makes them special and important and valuable in the science fiction universe that tends to mirror something that when it expresses itself in our prime universe it makes them weird.
So I always felt like a weird outcast kid cause of the stuff that I liked. And I really identified with characters, especially in Star Trek where the thing that made them weird made them special and valuable.”
Wil Wheaton, The Ready Room
Season 1 Episode 3