I don’t normally catch Robot Chicken, but since it was airing a new episode last night and I was still riding the high from their awesome Star Wars: Episode II DVD (giveaway in progress until this Wednesday!), I flipped it on. Then there was a skit that I was really, really shocked I’d never heard of before, especially from Wil Wheaton via Twitter. In this skit, the writing for the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is about to begin, and they acknowledge the fan backlash over Wil’s character, Wesley Crusher. How to “fix” the problem? Well, you just go and watch and find out.
Incidentally, Wil says he didn’t lend the voice for the character in this skit but would have gladly done so if asked.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Jul 27, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
OMG, that’s too funny. Too bad they didn’t use YOUR voice, Wil!
Yes, too bad Seth and Co. didn’t contact Wil for his voice. That would have made it even funnier.
Considering @wilw and his one million followers pushed @cyborgturkey over the 20k mark it’s even more hilarious.
Go buy “Just a Geek” today! ;-)
(seriously, bought it in audiobook form last week and am still recovering from that eBay story. Greak book. Great Buy. Buy Now!)
Just re-record the dialog and make a big deal of how it’s now the “Director’s Cut”!
a good ass frakk would be better than Snerkles. Unless the two got together.
Yea I think introducing a steady girlfriend to Wesley would have been interesting. They could even make him into an unexpected hero figure by putting her into some sort of trouble then he has to save her or something.
I don’t get the Wesley hate though. I think young watchers at the time were just jealous it wasn’t them. And Wesley was too young for them to “look up to” like the other characters perhaps were.
I blame psychology.