{"id":19034,"date":"2012-07-24T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19034"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:05:22","slug":"wheaton-life-after-star-trek-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/07\/wheaton-life-after-star-trek-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton: Life After Star Trek: The Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19037\" title=\"WheatonCrusher072412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WheatonCrusher072412-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong>, finishing <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> meant a temporary but welcome break from the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton had been working full time as an actor for eleven years, and &#8220;had never really known what it was like to be a normal person with a regular life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Moving on to other things after the series was exciting for the actor. &#8220;I was really excited to jump back into the world and go back into working in film and I was excited to have some time to myself to do some regular things that regular people do,&#8221; said Wheaton. &#8220;And I was kind of getting tired of the entertainment industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of that fatigue with the entertainment industry was due to having an non-supportive producer on <em>The Next Generation<\/em>. &#8220;<strong>Rick Berman<\/strong> was not the greatest producer in the world to work for and at that time I was under the impression that there was no such thing as a good kind nurturing producer,&#8221; said Wheaton.<\/p>\n<p>But Wheaton can look back on those<em> The Next Generation<\/em> days with fondness now. He published a book,<em> Memories of the Future Volume One<\/em>, in which he shared his memories of the first season of the show. Wheaton is still working on the second volume, which will complete his memories of that initial season. &#8220;I&#8217;m about two-thirds of the way through it and as I had said for the last three years&#8230; working very hard to get it out by the end of the year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Two episodes of the first season of <em>The Next Generation: Where No One Has Gone Before<\/em>, and <em>Datalore<\/em>, were shown in a special screening at theaters yesterday, and Wheaton is giving away those specific chapters of his <em>Memories of the Future Volume One<\/em> book as a free ebook download to fans. The free ebook download is available at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheatonbooks.com\/2012\/07\/free-ebook-from-memories-of-the-future-volume-one-where-no-one-has-gone-before-and-datalore.html\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0Wil Wheaton, finishing Star Trek: The Next Generation meant a temporary but welcome break from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[4571,2452],"class_list":["post-19034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-memories-of-the-future","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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034","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=19034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19040,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19034\/revisions\/19040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}