In 1986, when “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was still in development, the original casting boxes called the actresses to play a 15 -year -old character named Leslie Crusher, the daughter of Dr. Beverly Crusher. “Her remarkable mind and her photographic memory,” said the character, “makes the fact that he does not seem unlikely to become, at 15, a starfleet star. Otherwise, she is a normal teenager . ” As the casting and development continued, Leslie was transformed into a teenager named Wesley, and is more closely modeled after Wesley) of Gene Roddenberry.

Wesley was not much appreciated by the trekks, because he looked too much like a brown number. It was too impatient to please adults in his life, too well high and certainly too intelligent. The fans indicate the cases where a teenager, working with the best and the brightest of Starfleet, managed to be the only one to solve a massively difficult space enigma. It was only when Wes left the USS Enterprise and went to the Starfleet Academy that he started to manage seriously.

Wesley was played by Wil Wheaton, a young actor already known for his roles Long films like “stand by me”, “ “The curse” and “the provocatives”. He appeared in 85 episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, most of them in the first three seasons of the show. He left the series after the episode of the fourth season “Final Mission” (November 19, 1990), returning only for spotted spots here and there.

“Star Trek: The Next Generation” was, of course, a daring of notes, so many trekkies – even those who did not entirely like the character – were a little disconcerted when he left. According to An interview from 1996 with EWWheaton left “Star Trek” because, well, he wanted to do more with his career. The films called.

The EW article told Wheaton’s career after leaving “Star Trek”. It seems that he goes white hair, moved away from Hollywood – in Topeka, Kansas in particular – and took a job by working for a software company called Newtek. He was 18 years old. He then decided to go to university and focused on his studies for a few years before he decided to resume by acting again. Wheaton was too aware, however, that “Star Trek” gave the actors mostly associated with a kind of stigma. “” Star Trek “follows you as a disease,” he said, and we can look at the post-“Star Trek” careers of most of the franchise players and see the effect at work. Leonard Nimoy even had to write a memoir called “I am not spock”.

Wheaton hoped that his film career would seriously resume, because he was one of several high -level studio photos. But he may have been injured by his reputation as an actor of children and a character of “Star Trek”, and could not participate in Hollywood Productions in the same clip. However, he continued to work. He was in a Frankenstein riff directly to the video entitled “M. Stitch” in 1995, and played a supporting role in the 1995 romance “Pie in the Sky” with Christine Lahti and John Goodman.

In the EW article, he said he loved his role in the next film to come “Flubber”, happy to play a “really bad” character who was, in his words, “Dumb as a post” . It is a whole antidote to the golden child of Wesley Crusher of his youth. These days, fans of “The Big Bang Theory” could recognize Wheaton of the 17 invited appearances he made on this series.

Wheaton continued with a modest cinematographic career, but found a real niche in the accommodation of various web series based on the Nerds like “The Guild”, and in particular the “Tabletop” game show. He was a first internet adopter and tried to launch wilwheaton.net in 1993. He became a gadin in geek culture, and appeared as himself on countless interviews related to pop culture and others. More recently, he became the host of “The Ready Room”, a series of summary “Star Trek”. It finally seems to kiss his “Star Trek” connections. He even returned to play Wesley Crusher in an episode of “Star Trek: Picard” and on “Star Trek: Prodigy”.

If Wheaton made his way, he would in fact have left “Star Trek” a year earlier, knowing that he was still in demand as a cinema actor. / Film previously written on How Wheaton offered the role of denceny, the youth Bratty in the film by Miloš Forman in 1989 “Valmont”, an adaptation of “Dangerus links”. Wheaton was about to play the role, and apparently was free to do so, because the next “Next Generation” season would not start to involve it for a few weeks. But the actor was deceived. An anonymous producer – and a complete liar – told Wheaton that he had to be at hand immediately, because they wrote a very heavy episode of Wesley. Wheaton was disappointed, but he refused “Valmont” accordingly. The role ended up going to Henry Thomas.

When Wheaton returned to “Next Generation”, he found that the Wesley Heavy episode in question had been completely rewritten and was not at all heavy of Wesley. Wheaton was deceived and he missed a high -level film accordingly. Wheaton admitted that the liar producer was a big motivation factor to leave “Star Trek”.

These days, Wheaton seems satisfied with his fate, and his permanent association with “Star Trek” does not seem to be a stigma. He always speaks during conventions.