CaspianXIJul 26, 2023

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.

https://lemmy.world/post/2182511

My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed. - Lemmy.world

> My life is, by every objective measurement, very very good. > > And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self esteem, my self worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being. > > That’s because I live with Depression and Anxiety, the tag team champions of the World Wrestling With Mental Illness Federation.

Show threadastral_avocadoJul 26, 2023
Wow, I kinda feel bad for mocking his Wesley Crusher now, I wonder how much the best universal hate for that character has affected him.
Show threadI_Fart_GlitterJul 26, 2023
I’m a huge star trek fan and had a major crush on Wesley Crusher when I was a kid in the 90s. I honestly had no idea his character was universally hated. Wesley is wonderful. Reading his blog made me so sad, he hated acting so much… wilwheaton.net/…/yes-i-was-forced-to-be-a-child-s…
yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea.

I can't remember specifically when I first said "I just want to be a kid," but I can still see the late 70s smog, and smell the exhaust all around us as I begged her for what feels like years to stop making me do this, while we sat in traffic on the freeway after school, going to and from auditions, day after day after day.

WIL WHEATON dot NET
Show threadPagingDoctorLoveJul 27, 2023

I’m a HUGE trekkie, and I loved the character. Maybe it makes a difference that we didn’t watch the show until it had been out for like 20 years, so we didn’t take it so seriously. We’d pause it and make fun of how Troy would inexplicably get blocked when it was convenient to the plot, how everyone said “SensORS,” Riker’s affable intergalactic ladies man persona, and yes, even the peppy Wesley Crusher with his runaway science experiments and ability to disappear for months at a time without anyone questioning it.

I wonder if Wil would consider a cameo on one of the new series? There’s like 5 that I’ve heard of, although I haven’t seen any. I’m old and have no idea where to find them or what order to watch them in. But Wil is just as much a part of the nostalgia as the rest of them. That was a Grade-A show, and the only character I didn’t like was Q.

Show threadholeydood3
He does make a short cameo in one of the modern series’
Jul 27, 2023 at 1:43amWeb
Show threadPagingDoctorLoveJul 27, 2023
OOOH now I REALLY need to figure out how to watch them! Do you know which one?
Show threadgrueJul 27, 2023

Really? You pull out deep-cut stuff like…

how everyone said “SensORS,”

…but you haven’t already seen this scene from Lower Decks?

On a related note: screenrant.com/star-trek-lower-decks-wesley-crush…

Beckett Mariner "Sense-Ors" Star Trek Lower Decks

"are you trying to say the word sensors? cos to me, you're saying sense-ors. what is that?"clip of Star Trek Lower Decks season 1 episode 4 ending

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Show threadPagingDoctorLoveJul 27, 2023

I get VERY overwhelmed with too many options, and avoid spoilers like the plague. We had a busy few years and when I started getting more and more Star Trek stuff in my news feeds (let them track me, I live for Sci fi,) I realized I was behind by FIVE new series! Now I don’t know where to start. Also hubs and I try to stick to 2 streaming services at a time (which right now is Netflix and Hulu but we can easily change that…) and had some trouble figuring out where to watch one of the new shows. Then I forgot about it, until yesterday!

If you have suggestions for what order and where to watch, I am VERY receptive. We need help!

Show threadgrueJul 28, 2023

I just thought it was funny that, of all the silly things you could’ve mentioned, you happened to pick one that was so explicitly lampshaded.

Anyway, I’d say that since you haven’t seen Enterprise you should watch that first before continuing on to the new series.

Honestly, I haven’t seen a lot of the new Trek yet myself: I’ve only watched Lower Decks and the first two seasons of Discovery so far (along with about a season and a half of The Orville, which counts just as much as Galaxy Quest does).

Of those three, I think Lower Decks is just flat-out great, The Orville is the most similar to TNG (aside from the occasional deliberately-awkward Seth MacFarlane humor, which thankfully diminishes after the first few episodes), and Discovery is begrudgingly okay, but is both superficially annoying in terms of aesthetic continuity with older series (e.g. the weird Klingons) and trying way too hard to be “epic.”

As for the rest, I’ve heard good things about Strange New Worlds, bad things about Picard, and Prodigy is kinda off by itself in a separate category because it’s targeted at kids.

Show threadholeydood3Jul 28, 2023
Minor spoilers, but his cameo is in ::: Picard season 2 :::