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Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>‘s Wil Wheaton<\/strong> will be appearing in a commercial that will air during this year’s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n And the commercial, for the Lincoln Motor Company, was filmed at a very familiar place to Star Trek<\/em> fans, Vasquez Rocks.<\/p>\n It began with a phone call from Wheaton’s manager, telling him that he had been offered a part in a commercial at a special time. “You know that rather popular football event that happens in February,” said his manager?<\/p>\n “Shut up!” said Wheaton.<\/p>\n “Yes, it airs then.”<\/p>\n The commercial is part of a promotion that Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> has been doing with fans on Twitter, called steer the script<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wheaton was well-aware of the significance of Vasquez Rocks to Trek fans. “Vasquez Rocks \u2014 or, as I like to call it, Every Planet Ever In The History Of The Star Trek<\/em> Universe And Most Sci-Fi Movies From The Fifties \u2014 has an incredibly rich film history, but most of us know it from the aforementioned projects,” he said. “In fact, from the moment I saw the iconic rocks, my brain began a loop of the Star Trek<\/em> fight music that did not stop until I left the set hours later.”<\/p>\n “It\u2019s so cool to work here,” Wheaton told the director, “because even though Star Trek<\/em> always came here, those sons of bitches never let Wesley on the landing party.”<\/p>\n In addition to Wheaton’s commercial appearance, Trek fans can also watch a thirty-second commercial for Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Super Bowl takes place February 3 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Wil Wheaton will be appearing in a commercial that will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2523,5243,3528,2452],"class_list":["post-22583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-commercial","tag-lincoln-motor-company","tag-super-bowl","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'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583","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=22583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22589,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583\/revisions\/22589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}