For Wil Wheaton, new acting success came when he figured out just what type of character he should be playing.

It turns out that the best character for Wheaton to play is not someone like Wesley Crusher.

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The new Lincoln Motor Company car ad commercial in which Wil Wheaton has a part is now online.

The ad also features hip-hop artist Rev Run and the NFL’s Emmitt Smit.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Wil Wheaton will be appearing in a commercial that will air during this year’s Super Bowl.

And the commercial, for the Lincoln Motor Company, was filmed at a very familiar place to Star Trek fans, Vasquez Rocks.

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More Star Trek actors interact with astronaut Chris Hadfield and a famous astronaut joins in the fun.

If you’re not following Hadfield, a flight engineer from Expedition 34 on the International Space Station, on Twitter,  you’re not only missing fabulous pictures of Earth taken from high above, but you’re also missing Star Trek-related tweets.

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For fans of both Star Trek: The Next Generation and TNT’s Falling Skies, there is the possibility of seeing Jonathan Frakes in a third season episode of the latter.

Falling Skies is the story of human survival and resistance after an alien attack leaves most of the world incapacitated.

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A typical Star Trek: The Next Generation convention cast photo op turned out to be anything but typical when a Trek fan unexpectedly popped the question to his girlfriend.

During the Austin Wizard World Convention, which took place at the end of October, Wil Wheaton was present and described what happened. “I had the flu,” he said, “and almost missed this photo session…I sat there and smiled for everyone as best I could.”

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William Shatner and Wil Wheaton narrate the story of NASA’s latest planetary science mission.

The video is called Grand Entrance and takes viewers from the Mars entry of the Curiosity rover, through descent and then after the landing on the “Red Planet.”

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For Wil Wheaton, finishing Star Trek: The Next Generation meant a temporary but welcome break from the entertainment industry.

Wheaton had been working full time as an actor for eleven years, and “had never really known what it was like to be a normal person with a regular life.”

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Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Wil Wheaton will be hosting a “post-episode web show” for a TNG sci-fi series.

Launching on June 17 at 11 PM, 2nd Watch will follow the two-hour East Coast premiere of Falling Skies.

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Last weekend, fans attending the Calgary Expo in Calgary, Canada were able to see the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, plus surprise guest John de Lancie.

Over fifty thousand fans attended the weekend event, with the highlight of the convention being the TNG:EXPOsed event which took place Saturday evening.

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For fans of both Wil Wheaton and The Big Bang Theory, Wheaton will be appearing on the show tonight.

In tonight’s episode, The Stag Convergence, Wheaton appears at a bachelor party for Wolowitz (Simon Helberg).

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Fans attending the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo in Calgary, Canada, this spring will be able to see nine castmembers from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the same place.

The Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo will be held from April 27-29 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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On October 13, Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner will appear together on an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Both will appear as themselves in the episode and it turns out that Sheldon (Jim Parsons) likes one of the pair but hates the other.

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Two familiar faces from Star Trek: The Next Generation will be appearing on The Big Bang Theory in an episode to air next month.

Both actors will appear as themselves on the episode, due to air on October 13.

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Wil Wheaton will be returning to Syfy’s Eureka, again playing Dr. Isaac Parrish.

Last seen in the fourth season episode All the Rage, which aired last summer, Wheaton will appear in seven episodes to air in the second half of the season which begins next month.

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