Written by Chris Senelgov Updated
The truth of the departure of Will Whiton Star Trek: The next generation The fans often baffled. Although it was definitely annoying to play the role of the genius child’s personality and receive fools from fans, the fact is that most children’s stars do not move away from their fixed salaries, especially for the vehicles that make them familiar names. Why then left a talented young actor who made it famous? As it turned out, Will Whiton decided to leave this sub -show from Star Trek after a unnamed product was lied to him about Wesley’s involvement in the movie “The Ensigns of ComMand”.
Will Whiton leaves Star Trek
The story of why Will Witon left Star Trek: The next generation It can be found in The mission of the fifty years: the next twenty -five yearsEdward Gross and Mark Athman’s book to read for fans of the Golden Age of Excellence. In this text, the actor tells how he was chosen in the movie Montant They had to negotiate the photography schedules. The film was scheduled to be filmed in Paris during the TNG production period after the second season, but the production of the film would have extended to the production of the third season of TNG.
However, Will Whiton did not think that this would be a problem because “The Ensigns of Command” was the first episode that was produced for the third season of this STAR Trek sub -show and Wesley Crusher had a very big role in it. Therefore, suppose it would be easy to remove from any simple scenes he might have written. He kept this assumption until one of the producers of Star Trek called his agent.
He said: “One of the producers told my agent that they could not get me out of that episode, because it was an episode focused on Wesley, and I could not go to work (in a movie).” He called my home and told me: “It is the Wesley episode, and I am writing a scene with you and Gates that would push the relationship between the mother and the son forward, which is really important to the series.”
This looked good and good, but according to Luoon, the producer “just lied to … a few days before the start of production in that season of the series”. Next generationThis product was completely removed from the text, and it was horrific for me. The message was very clear, we have you, and that was a step to sabotage my career.
The end of the Wesley crusher
If we look back, Will Whiton remembers that this is the accident that prompted him to leave Star Trek: The next generation. However, this story may be more than at first glance … while the actor remembers that he was written from “Ensigns of ComMand” completely, Wesley appears in a few scenes. Witton is likely to indicate the size of the most important role, which is completely in line with this episode received wide -scale rewriting (so much that the writer Melinda Snowlands has almost removed her name from the credits).
Another interesting thing is that Will Whiton remembers that the Star Trek product is lying to him as a kind of power. While this is completely possible (it is said that the internal policies of the early transitional national government were very Sama), it seems that it seems that the uninterrupted product and which the actor spoke was confused in the episodes. The episode centered around Wesley and which pushed his relationship with his mother forward is “Evolution”, which was the first actual episode of the third season despite the production of “The Ensigns of ComMand” first, so there was a real mix with production.
Even if this is an explicit mistake, we can understand the annoyance of Will Whiton from the producers of Star Trek. On intentionally or unintentionally, one of the producers represented from participating in a steam saturated film of Milosh Foreman could have changed his career. In addition, he would have played the starring role along with heavyweight Hollywood stars such as Colin Verth and Anant Benning, and somehow doubted that they would cry “remove Ya Wesley” much less than the average of Star Tech fans, which makes the movie more attractive For the talented actor. They are stuck in playing the role of the most annoying genius child in science fiction.