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olePigeon · Dec 29, 2004, 11:49 PM

Just noticed that. Funny.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 29, 2004, 11:50 PM

Ya there was a thread about it, and nobody cares.

Cubeoid · Dec 29, 2004, 11:56 PM

Who is he?

MacMan4000 · Dec 30, 2004, 12:06 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
Who is he?

i was gonna ask that.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:15 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
Who is he?

spatterson · Dec 30, 2004, 12:18 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
Who is he?

Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Cubeoid · Dec 30, 2004, 12:28 AM

No interest in Star Trek. Never ever evervevevrvvrvrv.

spatterson · Dec 30, 2004, 12:33 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
No interest in Star Trek. Never ever evervevevrvvrvrv.

LOL

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:43 AM

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
No interest in Star Trek. Never ever evervevevrvvrvrv.

Here is news for ya, people interested in Star Trek aren't even interested in him.

Kenneth · Dec 30, 2004, 01:29 AM

Star Trek and Star Wars.. not my cup of tea.

sideus · Dec 30, 2004, 01:37 AM

That is one character I could not stand in TNG. Wesley was so annoying.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 01:41 AM

Originally posted by sideus:
That is one character I could not stand in TNG. Wesley was so annoying.

I hated him also but to be fair it was mostly the writers fault.

Superchicken · Dec 30, 2004, 02:06 AM

He wasn't a stelar actor, but as has been said it's more the writer's fault. They tried to make him super boy... what is it with Star Trek and annoying kids... I hated Naomi Wildman on voayger... that said DS9 had an OK kid with Jake and Nog, didn't like either of em to much but at least Nog was humorous at times.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 02:18 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
that said DS9 had an OK kid with Jake and Nog, didn't like either of em to much but at least Nog was humorous at times.

The reason Jake was cool is because they didn't have a 14 year old boy save the ship in the last 10 minutes when 1000 trained professionals didn't have a clue.

lavar78 · Dec 30, 2004, 09:56 AM

Originally posted by spatterson:
Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wrong answer! OK, it's technically correct, but here's the preferred answer:

Q: Who is Wil Wheaton?
A: Gordie Lachance from Stand by Me

Being a main character in an excellent movie like that trumps any work on Star Trek.

version · Dec 30, 2004, 10:03 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
He wasn't a stelar actor, but as has been said it's more the writer's fault. They tried to make him super boy... what is it with Star Trek and annoying kids... I hated Naomi Wildman on voayger... that said DS9 had an OK kid with Jake and Nog, didn't like either of em to much but at least Nog was humorous at times.

You remember all their names?

Dec 30, 2004, 12:00 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
Wrong answer! OK, it's technically correct, but here's the preferred answer:

Q: Who is Wil Wheaton?
A: Gordie Lachance from Stand by Me

Being a main character in an excellent movie like that trumps any work on Star Trek.

Could anyone try telling me what is excellent about this movie? Saw it and just thought: What the hell is all the fuss about? This movie is so incredibly boring! Nothing happens, NOTHING at all. Incredible..

Steve

Dec 30, 2004, 12:01 PM

Originally posted by version:
You remember all their names?

Huh? It's just Star Trek. I could compile a list with pretty much all starship classes form the Federation, the Klingons, the Cardassians, the Ferengi, the Romulans, the Dominion etc. off the top of my head. Nothing pretty here.

Steve

d4nth3m4n · Dec 30, 2004, 12:04 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
Wrong answer! OK, it's technically correct, but here's the preferred answer:

Q: Who is Wil Wheaton?
A: Gordie Lachance from Stand by Me

Being a main character in an excellent movie like that trumps any work on Star Trek.

beat me to it.

version · Dec 30, 2004, 12:08 PM

Originally posted by SteveJobs:
Huh? It's just Star Trek. I could compile a list with pretty much all starship classes form the Federation, the Klingons, the Cardassians, the Ferengi, the Romulans, the Dominion etc. off the top of my head. Nothing pretty here.

Steve

Yeah, but can you tell me who that Voyager captain's chic's husband's name was?

Too many possessive constructions in that sentence of mine, though. lol

version · Dec 30, 2004, 12:09 PM

Welcome to Wil's world, quite an interesting guy.

http://www.wilwheaton.net/

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by SteveJobs:
Could anyone try telling me what is excellent about this movie? Saw it and just thought: What the hell is all the fuss about? This movie is so incredibly boring! Nothing happens, NOTHING at all. Incredible..

Steve

It was great for the time when it came out as every boy at their age has gone on some sort of adventure.

wdlove · Dec 30, 2004, 12:25 PM

He is welcome to speak and praise Apple in some way.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:30 PM

Originally posted by wdlove:
He is welcome to speak and praise Apple in some way.

Will Wheaton "wdlove aproved�"

Turias · Dec 30, 2004, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Will Wheaton "wdlove aproved�"

Who isn't?

paully dub · Dec 30, 2004, 12:34 PM

I liked Stand By Me. I suppose as 12 year old I kinda related to it. Plus it had a killer cast with some of the best acting byt 12 year old kids you ever going to see. As someone who was suckered into doing child acting briefly I can tell you that was one sweet role for a kid, and a great job by all involved. The TNG role sucked, but it was work. For an actor, work is work.

I'm gathering that Wil's just there to promote his book. Nothing wrong with that from his standpoint but why the hell the folk at the expo want him there, other than a cheapish stunt is beyond me.

But if this were the late Douglas Adams hawking a book would you all have been upset?

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:36 PM

I saw Wil speak at a convention before, he is an egotistical showoff. He was drinking a root beer and someone ask him if they could have the can when he was done with it, he offered to sell it to them. I thought I hated his character but I don't like him as a person after watching him for 2 hours.

version · Dec 30, 2004, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
I saw Wil speak at a convention before, he is an egotistical showoff. He was drinking a root beer and someone ask him if they could have the can when he was done with it, he offered to sell it to them. I thought I hated his character but I don't like him as a person after watching him for 2 hours.

He must have been kidding though, I mean, how many people come up and ask you for your can? Probably just took the rip out of the person.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 12:45 PM

Originally posted by version:
He must have been kidding though, I mean, how many people come up and ask you for your can? Probably just took the rip out of the person.

No it was some chick that thought he was hot ****. Either way that was the least of it, it was just forcing this cool image that looked really pathetic.

He was good in stand by me as he was unknown at the time.

version · Dec 30, 2004, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
No it was some chick that thought he was hot ****. Either way that was the least of it, it was just forcing this cool image that looked really pathetic.

He was good in stand by me as he was unknown at the time.

ah, got ye. Yeah, that is pretty arseish behaviour.

lavar78 · Dec 30, 2004, 06:10 PM

Originally posted by SteveJobs:
Could anyone try telling me what is excellent about this movie? Saw it and just thought: What the hell is all the fuss about? This movie is so incredibly boring! Nothing happens, NOTHING at all. Incredible..

I'm not entirely convinced you aren't joking, but I'll try...

Personally, I think Stand by Me captures the essence of childhood. You may think nothing happened, but, as far as those kids were concerned, that adventure changed their whole lives. On some level, they managed to grow up, grow together, and grow apart through the course of the movie -- without any of it seeming forced or unnatural.

I find it funny that you've never seen it. I'll go ahead and assume you're rather young (sorry if that's incorrect). I think you may have gone into it with your expectations too high. When it first debuted, there was basically no hype at all; it managed to take the public by surprise and succeed through old-fashioned word of mouth. It's not the best movie ever made; it's just a well-acted, well-written film. In particular, River Phoenix gave about as good a performance as you're ever going to see from a child actor.

On a final note, it's more than a little amusing that Jerry O'Connell somehow became the most famous of the four boys.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 30, 2004, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
On a final note, it's more than a little amusing that Jerry O'Connell somehow became the most famous of the four boys.

And that he lost a ton of weight and got hot.

paully dub · Dec 30, 2004, 06:40 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
On a final note, it's more than a little amusing that Jerry O'Connell somehow became the most famous of the four boys.

I went to school with him during the Stand By Me period. It's weird to see him on tv all buff and famous and whatnot. I mean after the movie came out, he was still all chubby and what have you. But he got the girls had plenty of cash to throw around, did a Coca Cola commercial and so on. The buffitude kinda came as a suprise, since I kinda thought he'd always be chubby. he could've had a fine career as a chubby character actor.

Good for him, though. But I think River Phoenix was the most talented of the bunch. Sad.

And to make it worse, my girlfriend went to school with Jennifer Anniston.

Ain't life grand!

Cadaver · Dec 31, 2004, 03:03 AM

Originally posted by version:

Yeah, but can you tell me who that Voyager captain's chic's husband's name was?

Too many possessive constructions in that sentence of mine, though. lol

Captain Kathryn Janeway was, at the time of the Voyager series, not married. She was engaged, but never married (disappeared into the delta quadrant before the wedding). Her fiancee's name was Mark.

Superchicken · Dec 31, 2004, 03:19 AM

I couldn't have told you Janeway's Fiancee's name though I could have told ya she wasn't married. IMO SHE was far more annoying than Wesley least he didn't ruin a concept that could have been half decent... dang I hated her. 7 of 9 was just as bad, "Watch me arch my back to solve the problem, I'll distract the species 8472 with my enormous breasts while you phaser em!"

As to Jake and Nog, that's what I liked about em. Actually the last few seasons of DS9 were probably some of the best Trek stuff out there... probably cause they whole sale ripped off B5

, I'm surprised the Federation and the Founders didn't suddenly realize that they were having a war of ideology and that nobody would listen to em and decide to fly off beyond the rim

version · Dec 31, 2004, 06:01 AM

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Captain Kathryn Janeway was, at the time of the Voyager series, not married. She was engaged, but never married (disappeared into the delta quadrant before the wedding). Her fiancee's name was Mark.

Just checking, keep up the good work.

Superchicken · Dec 31, 2004, 06:27 AM

By the way I too could probably name just about every class of star ship from TNG-Voyager... I lost interest with Enterprise. By the way does anyone remember Sev Trek?

Millennium · Dec 31, 2004, 09:48 AM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
By the way I too could probably name just about every class of star ship from TNG-Voyager... I lost interest with Enterprise. By the way does anyone remember Sev Trek?

I heard about it a long time ago, but I never really got into it. What was it?

As for why Wheaton is going to appear, it's probably something about the blog server in Tiger (Server only, last I heard; not Client). It's said that they're doing something with Blojsom, the Java port of Blosxom. That's not the blog software he uses, but hey; he's a blogger.

CD Hanks · Dec 31, 2004, 09:51 AM

He's a self-proclaimed legend.

'Nuff said.

mac-at-kearsarge · Dec 31, 2004, 01:12 PM

Don't forget he was also in Toy Soldiers ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103112/...c=1;ft=21;fm=1 ) A movie I thought was really good.