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Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux)
A little over three years ago Slashdot interviewed Wil Wheaton, at the time best known for his role as Wesley Crusher on ST:TNG. Since then his blog WWDN has allowed him a creative outlet that has made the world sit up and take notice. Wil is now a regular participant in ACME Comedy Theatre, has published two books ( Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek ), has done voicework for video games such as GTA: San Andreas, cartoons such as Teen Titans, and speaks regularly at conventions such as Gnomedex and Linucon. Wil enjoyed the first Slash interview so much it appeared in Just a Geek, and we're glad to have him back for a second go-round. Feel free to fire away, one question per comment please. We'll post his responses once we get them back.
Do you use pepper spray, tear gas, or mace on people you meet on the street who call you Wesley Crusher?
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Are you disappointed that you did not turn out to be that hunk that Q turned you into as an adult, then changed you back by your request?
I know this is one of those things that was asked to Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade, but as Ashley Judd's first on-screen kiss, do you have any advice on finding women? ;)
On that matter, what do you think priorities should be in looking for that sig. other?
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Will you ever put a leech on your nuts in another movie?
Does a unitard feel as satisfying to wear as it looks? How do they hide "the package" on set?
...it's because he's off fighting evil in the 11th century. Not hard to get invited over for dinner back then when you are the only chance at saving the world.
You claim to be a geek/nerd, but yet you have a 6 digit slashdot userid (129189). How do you explain this discrepency?
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I think the whole world wants to know..... any Oedipus action with Gates McFadden? (C'mon Will, surely you at least thought about it.)
Blu Ray or HD-DVD?
So what is sex like?
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Phase Shifting or Changing Modulation?
Do you have anything in particular to say to the people who like you for being Wesley?
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I think he's covered most of that in the restraining orders.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
When you were compiling your geek code, did you get a kick out of the fact that you could put a $ after "t"?
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older."
Can US foriegn policy be reconciled with the prime directive?
Wesley Gone Evil would have been great - and probably would have been a lot more fun for Mr. Wheaton to play.
Better yet, send him to Spring Break destinations with a ton of beads and call it Wesley Gone Wild.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Do you get drunk white trash from stand by me? Cause thats scarier than a treckie any day.. or what about latin american freedom fighters stalking you? Toy soldiers was my favoritte movie growing up? Honestly, I'm guessing that you probably have a huge number of people on the street come up and ask if you were Wesley Crusher, but do people come up and recognize you from other movies?
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Wil, can you lift the restraining order? Please? I just want to talk. I've been on my meds this time.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
In the book I reverently refer to now as JAG, you speak of getting off your "Hey, I'm an actor! Get me a scone!" high-horse and being... JAG. Now that your books have hit a noteable success, have you had any close encounters with turning into Mr. "Hey, I'm an author! Get me a crumpet!"?
Are your friends, fans, and family helping you keep a level head?
That's not mace. Here's Mace.
(Okay, but it was funny when I imagined Wil on the street reaching behind him as he's facing down an army of Hell's Angels grannies.
Bonus: when they get tired, he can ask them if they're feeling Windu'd, yet.)
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
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>No matter how bright Wesley is supposed to be or how great Picards father-complex is, the fleet would have vaporized them in days.
Wes: "I reprogrammed the holodeck so it was possible to rescue the ship."
Q: "What?"
Picard: "He cheated."
Wes: "I changed the conditions of the test. I got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose."
Q: "Then you never faced that situation. Faced being written out of the series."
Wes: "I don't believe in the no-win scenario."
Add to this the rebel Riker's twin and the Data evil brother and we have a great beginning for an all evil crew.
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Too easy.
Could you kind of sum it up for us, thematically and plot-wise? Also, did the show ever achieve popularity?
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This week's episode:
Evil Riker, evil Wesley and evil Data are forced to confront the darker side of themselves, when they learn that there is only one black eyepatch between the three of them, and the replicator is on the blink.
Let's see, he could be shanghaid by a rogue pirate who teaches him the trade while telling each night, "Have a good sleep, for more likely than not I'll kill you in the morning" and then retires, leaving Wesley the ship and crew.
Wesley could then return to Starfleet headquarters, looking for his true love (an upperclassmen he met during his brief time at the acadamy) only to discover that she has become betrothed to an evil planetary governor who, unbeknownst to her, has ambitions to take over neighboring star systems and start interstellar war.
After being left for dead after being tortured using an octopus like extra-terrestrial creature that attaches its tentacles to major nerve bundles by the governor's minions. The purpose of the torture was to gain the vital "warp energy" that Wesley has learned to harness so the governor's assassins, can more through space like ghosts. Wesley rebuilds his strength and storms the governor's stronghold only to find out that the governor is his long believed dead father.
In the climactic battle, Wesley defeats, but does not kill his father. Wesley's true love does kill Wesley's father in a pique at being used to draw Wesley in. In his dying breath, Wesley's father renounces his evil and Wesley gives him the full starfleet funeral that he deserves.
Wesley realizes that he has evolved beyond common man and despite his feelings for the girl resumes his wandering of the universe, looking for wrongs to right and balances to be restored.
Hey, it's better than anything Rick Berman has produced in the last 10 years.
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I'd pay better money if it were a REAL mace rather than the self-defense spray.
Did Jordi ever start reading his lines, then stop and say "You can find out what happens by reading this script. So blast off to your local library today." pissing everyone else off?
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It's a vital plot point in my screenplay.
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This is a great idea and everything, but it will never work.
No matter how hard I try, I can't grow a goatee.
'Enterprise' Should change it's themesong to something that isn't completely stupid. How about something "futuristic" or something? I mean, ST:E is still in teh "future", right?
If something I said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant the other one.
Because, when you're really FUCKING psyched about meeting someone you feel is really FUCKING cool, you add the word FUCKING in the middle of their name to signify to everyone but you how cool it was to meet said cool person.
Example: I just slept with NATALIE FUCKING PORTMAN.
Just run that by me again?
My son and I were watching that (or a) episode where Wil did the voice for aquaboy or whomever it was, and I said "Dude, that's Wil Wheaton!" and my son, who is 9, said "Who the heck is Wil Wheaton?" and I started saying "you know, that kid from..." Then it occured to me, I'd gotten older too. Crap.
Deanna Troy or Dr. Crusher?
There are plenty of fan fiction sites that do pretty much that already... probably more than the same for Jeri Ryan.
Wil, can you test something out for me? Write some random offtopic post, and see if you get modded +5. Maybe even just write a bunch of odd letters. ;-)
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My kids love Flubber. Did you enjoy doing a kiddies movie, and what was it like working with Robin Williams. In addition did you get to keep any flubber and is it all its cracked up to be. Has your basketball game improved for the use of your small stash?
Better is the enemy of good enough. - Russian proverb.
Wil, is it true that youre really the guy who makes all those Goatse posts?
It's worse than that. I have it on good authority that Wil Wheaton *is* the Goatse Man.
Either that, or Tubgirl, I forget which.
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