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!
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Does anybody have any idea how the hell thats going to work? If the script reviews are accurate (yeah, I know big if)I don't think there really all that many places for boy wonder to appear.
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I gather that in the wedding scene in the beginning, when the priest asks whether somebody has an objection to the marriage, a disembodied voice will sound "I've got dibs!" and Wesley will phase in with a Traveler-style effect... He'll look and feel around a bit, change Riker into a statue when he makes a threatening move, then grow bored and say "Maybe I'll settle for the cake instead", then be gone in a flash. And return in a flash, and say "Oh, and mum, I'll be back sometime after midnight, not sure when." And again be gone in a flash.
"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.
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Um... isn't that a spoiler in the thread title? Tom's not gonna like that...
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.
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I was gonna put "Someone we really hate to be in STX"...... oh well.
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Wesley isn't THAT bad. He only ranks 2nd when it come to my list of Trek charactors I hate the most. 7 of 9 ranks number 1 in my list. No one, not even B&B themselves can possibly make a charactor I would despise more than 7 'O 9
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Wait, there's going to be a Star Trek Weakest Link episode? Who's going to be in it other than Weaton and Burton?
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?
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IIRC, the Trek edition of the "Weakest Link" should be on November 26th. You can check TrekToday for the details.
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