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Wil Wheaton to get new role on 'Enterprise'
hisholiness writes "It seems that a major underground letter writing campaign has secured Wil Wheaton (ST:TNG's Wesley Crusher) a recurring role the current 'Enterprise' series. According to his website, he states, "The details are still being worked out, but basically what they plan to do is have Wesley use his Time Traveler abilities to move through space and time to the NX-01. He'll be written more like the dark, troubled Wesley of 'The First Duty' and 'Final Mission', and less like the gee-whiz Wesley of days gone by." He continues that he will be in 8 of 22 new episodes over the next two seasons."
April Fools jokes for nerds.
Stuff that will never happen.
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It seems that a major underground letter writing campaign has secured Wil Wheaton (ST:TNG's Wesley Crusher) a recurring role the current 'Enterprise' series.
Now we know what he does with all his free time.
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Don't worry, he's there. As a matter of fact, he just wrote his own operating system. Dubbed "Wheatonix," it will be the future for operating systems, and even has one game available for it already, Duke Nukem Forever (certainly took FOREVER, didn't it?).
Go buy your copy today at http://www.thinkgeek.com today!!
The speed of time is one second per second.
From his site:
/.'ed. You wish that you never even registered that domain...
:-)
here's the bad news: the entire site has crashed, and we can't figure out why.I don't know when the crash happened, or why, because I was offline all weekend, but I'm working on it. I suppose that if you can read this, it means things are working again
Just wait till it get's done getting
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
oh nonsense...
we know Wil still harbors Wesley Crusher fantasies involving everything from being given the vulcan neck pinch to having a gaggle of tribbles on the bed.
aw man, that got WAY too graphic.
but I'm certain that Wil probably came up with this idea ALL on his own. He's a craft guy. Not that the SLASHDORK editors don't have mad pull in the internet world...some would consider them minor deities!
Ahhhh yes. April Fools.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
You know, you're not obligated to report on every single April Fools' link on the web. Give it up.
For one you could have buried a false story in the midst of real ones and have a contest to have readers decide which one is the joke...
You could give away someone's favorite Linux distro on CD or something... ANYTHING BUT THIS!
OMFG, yet another unbelievable joke headline. I mean, this is about as likely to happen as, say, ummm... telling us Captain Kirk is going to host a Japanese cooking show. Sheesh.
If there are two things you can always count on in Star Trek, they would have to be guest appearances by characters from previous Star Trek shows and time travel. At this point I wouldn't be surprised to see an episode of Enterprise where we learn that Wesley picked up Kes from Voyager and settled down on a remote planet in the Enterprise timeline, only to be called back into action when Khan wakes up sooner than he was supposed to and starts wreaking havoc with the space-time continuum, or some such nonsense.
Wil Wheaton hangs out around here. Search for comments by CleverNickName.
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In other news:
/.ters have become angry and are angry and have expressed that they are not going to take it anymore. They have refused to post and when posting have made sure the site operators are aware that enuff is enuff.
In a dramatic twist, Slashdot a "geek" news site, turned the tables on would-be Anonymous Cowards and Trolls, posting inflamatory "news" articles and other mischeivous April 1st pranks - in the very spirit that they have encouraged moderators to trounce in times past.
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I am sure when this is all over, "News for Nerds" will be back and ACs will be posting flamebait and trolls with a vengence.....
Stop going to Wil's site!! My site's parked on the same server...
A bit weird, this... experiencing the Slashdot effect vicariously through Wil Wheaton.
PLEASE GOD NO!!!
Maybe they can have Wesley's girlfriend be Britney Spears, but she can have red hair, and she can be a mind-reading prostitude who has some sort of special psychic bond with large rodants. She could go around the ship "silently" singing via esp in people's head to lure them into sex ("I'ma Sllllllllave for u, if you pay me 3500 credits"), yet the audience would get the privlage of hearing it.
Wait, that would be silly... Britney can't have red hair! What was I thinking...
Look at the episode guide. After the Temporal Cold War, Silik will bring the war to the Enterprise in S1E26. Its clearly the perfect setup for Wil to come back, as a time travler. Next season hasnt been filmed yet, Wil was just offered the role.
S1E11, Cold Front
gs: John Fleck (Silik) Matt Winston (Daniels) Michael O'Hagan (Captian Fraddock) Joseph Hindy (Prah Mantoos) Leonard Kelly-Young (Sonsorra) James Horan (Humanoid Figure ("Future Guy"))
rc: Silik
When the Enterprise comes in contact with an alien vessel transporting stargazers to observe a spectacular stellar event, Archer invites them aboard the ship not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them. Archer quickly realizes that Silik is engaged in a nefarious time-travelling mission and must stop him before he can tamper with the course of history.
b: 28-Nov-01 pc: ENT 111 w: Steve Beck & Tim Finch d: Robert Duncan McNeill
NOTE: The Suliban and the "Temporal Cold War" return in this episode.
S1E26 : Shockwave
gs: John Fleck (Silik)
Synopsis Unknown.
b: 22-May-02 d: Allan Kroeker
NOTE: Season Finale.
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"If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
Hence the "Enterprise" bit. Yes folks, it's Wil Wheaton Enterprise Edition (for the multi-tiered enterprise)!
Wil Wheaton is going to be 8 of 22! That's awesome! Man, I just can't get enough of that wacky borg.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
So it's more efficient than ever today!
sulli
RTFJ.
"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times." Bill Hicks
Well, a huge thanks to /. for going along with this. I was able to get FARK on board, as well, and we all had a really good time with this.
I hope everyone takes this in good humor.
Lots of people sent really kind and sweet congratulatory messages, and I actually feel pretty badly for fooling such nice people. All the idiots who thought it was a really good idea to fill my inbox with "Wesley is gonna ruin Enterprise" crap should get a life, and direct any further comments to the nearest brick wall.
I think the greatest highlight of the day came when my mom called Anne, while I was at work.
The conversation went something like this:
Mom: Do you have something to tell me?
Anne: Uh, no.
Mom: Do you have some big news about Wil?
Anne: Oh, that. Uh, what day is today?
Mom: It's Monday!
Anne: Right. And the date is...?
Mom: It's April Fir-- OH! Damn you!
Heh. I guess my dad was all pissed off, stomping around my parent's house because I didn't tell them myself, and he "had to read it on Wil's $%@#!ing website!"