{"id":2321952,"date":"2026-03-10T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2321952"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:38:28","slug":"star-trek-the-next-generation-star-wil-wheaton-had-a-secret-role-in-the-jj-abrams-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/star-trek-the-next-generation-star-wil-wheaton-had-a-secret-role-in-the-jj-abrams-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Wil Wheaton Had A Secret Role In The JJ Abrams Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000696\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a> left his mark as a beloved figure in science fiction thanks to his role as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2560778\/\">Wesley Crusher<\/a> on &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092455\/\">Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/a>.&#8221; Beyond being part of the series&#8217; main cast, Wheaton also had a secret role in the 2009 film reboot directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0009190\/\">J.J. Abrams<\/a>, which established the now-defunct Kelvin timeline. Wheaton lent his voice to several Romulans from the crew of the film&#8217;s antagonist, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5465884\/\">Nero<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0051509\/\">Eric Bana<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton discussed his participation in the 2009 reboot on his blog (via TrekMovie). &#8220;I thought it would be really hard to keep my squee under control,&#8221; Wheaton shared. &#8220;But when I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Wheaton left his mark as a beloved figure in science fiction thanks to his role as Wesley Crusher on &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation.&#8221; Beyond being part of the series&#8217; main cast, Wheaton also had a secret role in the 2009 film reboot directed by J.J. Abrams, which established the now-defunct Kelvin timeline. Wheaton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2321953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2321952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-Star-Wil-Wheaton-Had-A.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321954,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321952\/revisions\/2321954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}