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It makes sense when you remember the whole "humans are doc brown" thing
It's kinda funny that in a way, the humans in the Trek universe, are like the Orks in WH40k
Humans are space orks.
Subverted by Tendi and Pelia though.
Why do you think there are so few Orions in Starfleet? Because Tendi is one of the few weirdos who Gets It. The rest are like "WTF you people are crazy!"
I mean... that and they're all pirates.
....proceeds to do the pirate criminal thing at the end of last season.
They both seem pretty well assimilated into human culture though. Maybe the crazy can rub off. I think the Vulcans definitely would have said that about T'Pol.
In actuality though, I think it's probably just that every species has these people, humans just have more for whatever reason. And so the other species' people go to join the humans
Humans in Trek seem to value individuality over conformity more than most of the other cultures. The ones most like them in that regard are probably Klingons and Bajorans. Likely contributes to the high number of crazy mavericks.
But Doc Brown was a Klingon.
IMO it makes more sense if the humans in Star Trek are unreliable narrators.
How is it possible that a teenage mechanic can improve engine efficiency by 5% messing around in his spare time? Why didn't the engineers whose full time job it is to build the engines figure that out?
In fact, cosmic radiation in space drives all humans insane. They truly believe they're doing science experiments, but stuff goes wrong because they're just jamming random household items into the engine.
TBH, we regularly see teenagers in places come up with breakthrough ideas currently. It's not weird at all. Estabilished engineers and academia have momentum. They are set in their ways and tend to see things as they always were. We even have famous examples of this where the Theory of Evolution was ridiculed for many years before being grudginly accepted. Einstein rejected quantum theory etc.
Because Wesley is space magic.