Tuesday, November 13, 2001

Homecoming

When I did Weakest Link, I stood next to LeVar. We were talking during the commercials, and I said to him that I really missed them. He said to me that I should be in the movie, especially since it's going to be the last TNG movie. I told him that I would love to be in it, but I really thought that Berman and company really didn't like me. He seemed surprised, and he told me that he was going to call Rick the next morning, and suggest to him that I be in the movie, at least as a cameo. I thought that would be really cool, and told him so.
Last week, on Friday, my agent called me to let me know that there was an offer from Paramount to reprise the role of Wesley Crusher in Star Trek X. We just needed to work out the details.
So we spent some time negotiating it, and --get this-- Rick Berman told my agent that he was "very pleased" that I was going to be in the movie!
I am really excited about this for three reasons:
* I am going to get to work with my friends again.
* Wesley Crusher will have some real closure, finally.
* For the last 5 years, at least, everywhere I go, fans ask me if I'm going to be in a movie, and what happened to Wesley, and I can honestly say that I'm doing this for the fans, because it will be so damn cool to see all of us together again.
WHEEE!

[ November 14, 2001: Message edited by: Tahna Los ]

Ah well I suppose it can't hurt all that much.
 

Timo Saloniemi
 

"Nothing was mentioned about what kind of cameo appearance Wheaton will have, or how it'll play out in the film. However, since we're betting kinda guys, we figure Wheaton might appear during the scene where Picard talks to Starfleet Command. In this scene Voyager actress Jeri Ryan was supposed to appear as her Star Trek character Seven of Nine and give Picard some crucial information needed to advance the story. Ryan's cameo was later rewritten to feature Kate Mulgrew's character, the recently promoted Admiral Janeway, but recent reports say this has also been dropped. So, will Picard be speaking to Wesley Crusher during this sequence, or is a new scene being written for the character's appearance?"
 

1) I don't like Wesley.
2) You can't just add a plot line (and tying up the Wesley storyline is a plot line, not a cameo) without changing the movie. I think it will be a distraction. If it happens at the beginning of the movie and then he's gone...it'll feel like it was done merely for efect, not for good story telling.

Who knows...maybe they'll pull it off brilliantly. Here's hoping.
 

Yeah, I'm betting he'll just show up at the beginning for the wedding. But you never know. Maybe he's the helmsman that gets sucked out into space later in the movie.
 

I was gonna put "Someone we really hate to be in STX"...... oh well.
 

Wesley in Trek X isn't that bad...maybe the Enterprise-E will need someone to fly a Type-9 shuttle for a survey mission to a binary star?
 

But Seven?! Or Janeway? Ugh. Ick. No, please.
 

[ November 15, 2001: Message edited by: Sol System ]

Actually, maybe ALL the missing Trek characters are in this giant coma ward, suspended from the ceiling by cables. There, they're kept for spare parts unless they're ever needed again. It's too late for Thomas Riker, his face was removed for a follicle transplant when Will was unable to re-grow his beard after shaving it off in Insurrection. 8)
 

I presume Wesley would be appearing in a cameo capacity at the Wedding of Deanna and Will.

As for that book with Sela in a coma - mustn't be very exciting!

Chapter 1. Sela is in bed, in a coma...
Chapter 2. Still in a coma - the beeping noises are driving me crazy
Chapter 3. I'm now in a coma due to the beeping noises.
The end.
 

Riker: "There must be something we can use against that obsecure alien ship which is kicking our butt, despit our obvious tactical superiority, being the most bloody powerful vessel ever built by the Federation to date. Suggestions?"

Troi: "Maybe we should get Captain Picard to take command, Will. You hardly said anything besides 'rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrredalert' since the fight started."

Riker: "You're one to talk. Who was the one that said, 'oh my, I sense some hostility from them', AFTER they started shooting at us?!"

Worf: "My analysis of their hull indicates that it is composed of a simple modeling plastic material, with cheap aluminium-tin alloy colored paint armoring. However, due to their plot device generator, our phasers and quantum torpedoes cannot penetrate it."

Riker: "Mr. Worf, good of you to join us, again. Where the hell did you come out of, by the way?"

Worf: "I was showering at home, the next thing I knew I was here on the bridge. Naked. Must have fallen through a plot hole."

Extra: "Sir, the Br'Agab'Erman ship is coming around for another pass! They're firing..."

[Ship shakes from the hit, something explodes, killing the extra]

Riker: "Bridge to engineering: Geordi, we need more power to the shields!"

Geordi: "I'd like to help you Commander, but with all this switching between the VISOR, the artificial eyes, and now the real eyes, I'm now completely blind. I think I'm trapped in a bathroom, but I'm not positive."

Data: "I believe there is a way to disrupt the plot device generator of the enemy vessel, sir, by using a specially modified shuttle as a bomb. Basically, our own plot device."

Riker: "Explain, Data. Try to keep it simple."

Data: "Since the alien ship is travelling at warp 10, we will have to use Whesly, who has suddenly reappeared in our lives, to enhance a shuttle's warp engine so it could keep up. For warhead, we will tape the visitng blond fan service, 7 of 9, to the nose of the shuttle, since her Borg nanoprobes can do just about anything. Piloting and guidence will be provided by our guest Captain Janeway, just because we do not need to waste our extra hair, I mean, air supply. In any case, ramming the shuttle into the enemy ship should produce the desired effect."

Riker: "Of getting rid of those three?"

Data: "We can only hope that they die so easily."

Riker: "Make it so. I'm going back to my quarters now, since these things always work. Care to join me, Counselor?"

Troi: "Only if you shave that beard off again."

Worf: "Do you realize that we just created a huge time paradox, in which because Captain Janeway is killed here, the USS Voy... Whoa... Here's comes that weird tickling sensation, which could only mean another plot hole... See you people at the next reunion!"

[Nake Klingon disappears off bridge]

Data: "Uh oh, I just realized my warranty expired yesterday. Damn..."

[Data falls apart, a small boy takes command]

William from Lost In Space: "Here we go again!"

Here to STX. Cheers.

[ November 17, 2001: Message edited by: David Templar ]