Wesley Crusher, aka "the Jar-Jar Binks of Star Trek," has been cut out of the new movie, Star Trek: Nemesis. Wil Wheaton confirmed it on his website as well. WIL WHEATON -- BEAMED OUT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wil Wheaton, who, as a teenager, costarred on Star Trek: the Next Generation as Ensign Wesley Crusher, has posted a poignant account on his website <www.wilwheaton.net> of how he was informed his scenes had been cut from the upcoming (Dec. 13) feature, Star Trek: Nemesis: "I could focus on the disappointment, I suppose. I could feel sad," wrote Wheaton, who also co-starred in the acclaimed 1986 feature Stand By Me. "But I choose not to. ... I did have two wonderful days with people I love, and it was like I'd never left. I did get to reconnect with the fans and the franchise. [Producer] Rick Berman, a person with whom I've not always had the best relationship, called me himself to tell me the news, and I felt like it weighed heavily on him to deliver it. Nobody can take that away from me, and I'm not going to feel badly, at all." Wow. There is a God. Unfortunately, you know the Crusher scene will make an appearance on the DVD as a deleted scene. All throughout the Next Generation run, I always hoped they'd accidentally beam Wesley into space or into a wall or something. There were always transporter failures, hull breaches, holodeck accidents (with the safety protocols off), and hostile aliens on the show. How come Wesley couldn't find his way into one of those mishaps? Tattle-telling on his Academy friends? Dumb. Always showing off and being a general pest? Annoying. Sucking up to Picard on a non-stop basis? Got old, fast. Choosing to be "just friends" with an incredibly hot Robin Lefler (played by a much younger Ashley Judd)? Absolutely ridiculous. I hereby sentence (damn, if you will) Wesley Crusher to eternal "Annoying TV Character Hell." There, he can be among his own kind, joining the cast of Suddenly Susan, Louie Anderson, Kevin (the tall, goofy guy from Just Shoot Me), Stephanie from Full House, the annoying kids from 7th Heaven, etc.
Wesley is pretty popular with the homosexual contingent of Trekkies. I've seen a lot of fan fiction online wherein young Mr. Crusher is introduced to the ways of man love (often by Capt. Picard). Ewwwwwwww....
I wonder how the hell they even brought him back in the movie I mean sh*t didn't he fade away with the Traveler fellow? Rocket River show your inner Trek
kind of loses crebility coming from a guy going by JOE JOE JAR JAR: Isa besa JAR JAR JOE JOE: JOE JOE JAR JAR: Nosah JAR JAR JOE JOE: No.. . . .I am JOE JOE!! Rocket River
I remember in my first year of college my friends and I went on the VAX cluster (damn I'm old) and logged onto a newgroup... alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die Damn those were the days.
lmao ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isn't it ironic that in "Stand by Me", the 4 actors that played the main parts, only 1 is really doing something now these days? River Phoenix - dead Corey Feldman - probably about dead Will Wheaton - annoying character that people want dead Jerry O'Connell - gone from fat kid to pretty buff dude and a hot commodity for the movies. The morale of the story is that the ugly duckling DOES turn into the swan, well at least with the cast of "Stand by Me"!
Star Wars, yes. But then I've yet to watch a Star Wars movie, so maybe I shouldn't really comment. Star Trek for the most part bores me except for the Next Generation series, which I love.
If you star in crap movies, like Tomcats and Joe's Apartment, you're bound to head into Corey Feldman-straight-to-video-soft-core-p*rn territory... eventually... As for Deep Space Nine, I want a movie, damnit! (And, no, the space station did not explode.) Give me more Sisko, Dax, Odo, Kira, Bashir, Quark, Worf, Rom, Jake, Weyoun, wormholes, the Dominion, shapeshifting, the Bajorans vs. the Cardassians, and general space station goofiness and hijinks! That show rocked! A Voyager movie would just blow chunks, however. Unless massive amounts of the crew were killed off. But I don't see that happening.
Okay, maybe I was getting a little carried away earlier about saying O'Connell getting some good roles. Also, I was a little quick to write off Corey Feldman. The Internet Movie Database says that he is better than ever! It also said he divorced his parents??!! How do you do that??
