Did Somebody Say "Star Trek"?

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Nothing from Wil though. :slightly_frowning_face:

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Hereā€™s what he said about it on his tumblrā€¦

Also, he got defended at comic-con by Cory Bookerā€¦

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I like just about everything Will Wheaton has done except for Wesley Crusher, so personally Iā€™m okay with that (though he got better in later episodes when they finally let him make mistakes and be less of a prat). It would take a certain amount of handwaving to bring the character back.

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holy shit. just now finding time to see this. itā€™s hard to type with your eyes full of tears. i can not wait.

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Well then youā€™ve got the same problem as with the Kirk movies, where they never really let the characters retire, or if they do they canā€™t figure out how to tell stories about them after that. Itā€™s just more of the same with Eighty Year Old Commander Hero Man until the actor dies.

In the last episode with Wes Crusher in it he could teleport across the galaxy with his mind. That was always the arc they had planned for him, it was like a Childhoodā€™s End thing. Crusher should be a Doctor Who kind of figure by now, running around making trouble or solving problems without permission. He could be visiting Picard every day at his vinyard and Picard could be telling everybody and no one believing him.

They should really be thinking more outside the box.

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Upon the body of Wilā€™s other work, Iā€™ve lain the blame of Wesley Crusher at the feet of the writers.

As part of the target audience for a younger person on TNG, I liked the idea of Wesley, I was not fond of the execution.

Throw the man a cameo if nothing else.

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Iā€™m about the same. Wheaton worked with what they gave him, and what they gave him sucked a lot of the time. I donā€™t think the writers knew what to do with him until he turned 18, but thatā€™s not his fault.

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ā€¦but Cory Booker also admitted he loves the Big Bang Theory, which I hate. :rage:

I had a tiny crush on Wesley back in the day, but as I got older I didnā€™t like the character so much. I agree that the writers were to blame-- ā€œwhiz kid saves the dayā€ got used as a plot device almost as much as Sevenā€™s Borg nanoprobes were on Voyager.

A cameo would be acceptable, but probably one that ignores his Traveler-type powers. Unless very well written, those abilities could make solving problems way too easy.

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A long time ago I postulated the next Star Trek show should be Captain LaForge and the Starfleet Forces of Order chasing after Wesley Crusher the Superpowered Anarchist and both of them trying to foil each otherā€™s schemes every other week or so.

burton Ā  wheaton

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I donā€™t know the whole story, but apparently at least some of the adult actors did not like the actual human being Wil was in those days. Visible dislike, in fact. It seems he has matured well since then, and this is the person people want to see in any new show.

In other words, it might not have been all the writersā€™ fault, back in the day.

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Would watch thisā€¦

Agreed. And from what he says today, he was dealing with a less than ideal family life while he was working on Star Trek. In recent years, heā€™s been very open about dealing with various issues, like depression and anxiety, etc, so I appreciate that very much.

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It sounds kinda inappropriate for them to even have had opinions about him at all. Being a teen is confusing enough without a bunch of thirtysomethings turning your workplace into a Mean Girl club.

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Maybe he becomes Q. Iā€™d love to see Wil Wheaton back, as an adult, with the kind of acting heā€™s capable of. Heā€™s got great timing, and was one of my favorite characters on Big Bang. I really didnā€™t like the Traveler thingā€“too new-age (rhymes with sew-age)ā€“but a cool story would be having that power having damaged him somehow; now heā€™s a normal person, perhaps missing some of his fantastical scientific prowess.

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Calling Lt. Broccoli to the Bridge!!!

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That mystery woman who comes to Picard for help is very Jyn Erso-ish.
I somehow want this to be about Picard helping to steal the plans to the Death Star.

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tng-barclay-oh-bother

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(Warning: non-Trek spoilers presumably present in article)

The one thing I can say is it would deal with the Chris Pine timeline. Now, I still donā€™t quite understand, and J.J. [Abrams] canā€™t explain it to me, and my editor has tried to explain it to me and I still donā€™t get itā€¦about something happened in the first movie that now kind of wiped the slate clean. I donā€™t buy that. I donā€™t like it. I donā€™t appreciate it. I donā€™t ā€” f*** thatā€¦I want the whole series to have happened, it just hasnā€™t happened yet.

ā€¦And, Iā€™m officially no longer interested in the Tarantino Trek film.

To my memory, at least one classic Trek episode and one movie have critical scenes taking place on Vulcan, a planet which no longer exists in the Pine timeline.

Sure, the Trek timeline has always been a bit screwy, but at least Discoveryā€™s changes were mostly aesthetic (and they put fig leafs on the ones that werenā€™t, to try to explain them away). Ignoring the fact that the two timelines canā€™t be made to match at all isā€¦ justā€¦ no.

Edit to add:

And I told J.J., like, ā€˜I donā€™t understand this. I donā€™t like it.ā€™ And then he was like, ā€˜Ignore it! Nobody likes it. I donā€™t understand it. Just do whatever you want. If you want it to happen the exact way it happens on the series it can.

Also, fuck you very much, JJ Abrams.

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Captain Kirk: ā€œPlanet Vulcan? But I thought it was destroyed!ā€
Lt. Wiggum: ā€œNope!ā€

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Ditto.

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