Isaac Parrish on Eureka. Wheaton was the host and co-creator of the YouTube board game show TableTop. As an adult, Wheaton described his father as being emotionally abusive to him as a child and his mother as being an enabler of that abuse.
He also stated that his parents forced him to become an actor; he is currently estranged from them. O'Brien 's book Mrs. Wheaton first gained widespread attention for his work in Stand by Me , the film adaptation of Stephen King 's novella The Body. He's a gem".
The Wesley Crusher character is a "polarizing" character; while some Star Trek fans love him, others are vocal about their hatred for the character. Later, I determined that the people who were really, really cruel β like the Usenet weenies β really are a statistically insignificant number of people. And I know, just over the years from people who've e-mailed me at my website and people who I've talked to since I started going to Star Trek conventions again in the last five years, that there are so many more people who really enjoyed everything about the show, including my performance, including the character.
Wheaton left Star Trek: The Next Generation due to concerns over how the production team addressed a scheduling conflict related to his wish to appear in the film Valmont. Wheaton returned to Star Trek in , and , reprising his Wesley Crusher role in cameo appearances in Star Trek: Nemesis , the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Picard , [ 27 ] and as a voice actor in the second season of the animated show Star Trek: Prodigy. Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film Toy Soldiers After leaving Star Trek , he moved to Topeka, Kansas , to work for NewTek , where he helped to develop the Video Toaster doing product testing and quality control [ 29 ] [ 30 ] and later used his public profile to serve as a technology evangelist for the product.
Afterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world. In the late s and early s, Wheaton appeared in several independent films , including the award-winning The Good Things , in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas tollbooth worker. Wheaton regularly portrayed a fictionalized version of himself on The Big Bang Theory , becoming a recurring guest star and then side character on the show.
