“For the first time in the history of the Star Trek universe, people went to war over a character.” Co-creator Alex Kurtzman described the squabble between the showrunners as “a little bit of a fight.”Īs is by now obvious, Goldsman and Matalas won the battle to bring back Wesley. “Then a funny thing happened,” says Goldsman in the video. Goldsman reveals in The Ready Room video that it was his colleague Terry Matalas who officially introduced the idea of bringing back Wesley, as a way to resolve a plot point: He could, as The Traveler, remove the 21st century genetically-augmented prototype superhuman Kore (played by Isa Briones, who also plays Soji on the series and played at least two other characters in season one) from the timeline. Just being part of the Star Trek legacy will do that, and fans of the shows and the films come from all corners of the world, across generations, and have included billionaires, astronauts, presidents, kings and even a secretary of state who recently passed away: Madeleine Albright.Īkiva Goldsman attends the Paramount+'s 2nd Annual 'Star Trek Day' Celebration at Skirball Cultural.

Given that he is a character that divided fans into those who loved to hate him and those who saw themselves in him, the one thing both sides agree upon is that Wesley Crusher is most certainly memorable. How And Why Star Trek Brought Back Wesley Crusher “We’re both still part of the Star Trek universe in a different way than we were.” The actor summed up the experience as “wonderful,” and shared a behind-the-scenes video of the scene that marked his return.

Wheaton explained that just as he is not the same teenager he played on television 30 years ago, his character is not the same, either.

I didn’t think I’d get to love being Wesley in the moment, the way I love being Wesley in my memory. “I didn’t think I would ever have a chance to fully embrace and appreciate playing him again. “My sad truth was that I couldn’t fully feel any of those things, for a lot of reasons, when he and I worked on the Enterprise,” says Wheaton. Wil Wheaton starred in the first two seasons of the television series, Star Trek: The Next.

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