{"id":10098,"date":"2010-09-01T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2010-09-01T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T18:26:50","slug":"two-trek-actors-in-big-bang-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/two-trek-actors-in-big-bang-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Trek Actors In Big Bang Theory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> who also like <em>Star Trek<\/em> will have a double dose of enjoyment as <strong>George Takei<\/strong> is scheduled to appear on the show, and if all goes well, <strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong> may return.<\/p>\n<p>Takei will appear in an episode, in a cameo, playing himself, opposite guest star <strong>Katee Sackhoff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Takei080210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10099\" title=\"Takei080210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Takei080210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to executive producer<strong> Bill Prady<\/strong>, Takei and Sackhoff will play different sides of Wolowitz&#8217;s conscience. &#8220;George Takei plays himself,&#8221; said Prady, &#8220;and he&#8217;s the other person guiding Wolowitz [<strong>Simon Helberg<\/strong>] in his thoughts as he tries to figure out what to do about Bernadette.&#8221; Bernadette (<strong>Melissa Rauchberg<\/strong>) is Wolowitz&#8217;s ex-girlfriend and he is thinking about getting back together with her.<\/p>\n<p>Prady spoke about his hopes for getting another <em>Star Trek<\/em> actor, <em>The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s Wil Wheaton, back on the show. Wheaton appeared on the show twice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Wheaton150-090110.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10100\" title=\"Wheaton150-090110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Wheaton150-090110.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>in the third season, playing Sheldon&#8217;s <strong>(Jim Parsons<\/strong>) enemy. &#8220;We started talking about the idea of minor celebrities cutting in line,&#8221; said Prady. &#8220;And we thought it might be funny to have our guys waiting in line for a one-time-only midnight screening of something like <em>Raiders Of The Lost Ark<\/em> with restored footage, and Wil Wheaton and three of his friends cut the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes time for our guys to get in, the line stops &#8211; Wil took the last four seats and Sheldon is just furious. Because it doesn&#8217;t make sense to him. Wil&#8217;s celebrity is not applicable here. This is not <em>Star Trek<\/em>. It&#8217;s just wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This story would be based on a real life incident in Las Vegas. &#8220;We were mostly talking about our good friend <strong>Adam Savage<\/strong> from <em>Mythbusters,<\/em>&#8221; explained Prady. &#8220;He was apparently in Las Vegas, there was a <em>Star Trek <\/em>auction, and there was a preview and he got to cut the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fourth season of <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> begins on September 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of The Big Bang Theory who also like Star Trek will have a double&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442,2421],"tags":[2415,2906,2452],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","category-star-trek-tos","tag-takei","tag-the-big-bang-theory","tag-wheaton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}