List of The Big Bang Theory Characters - Recurring Characters - Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton (portraying a fictionalized version of himself): In the season 3 episode "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary", Sheldon enters a trading card game tournament (Mystic Warlords of Ka'ah) to confront Wil Wheaton over an incident that occurred in 1995 when Sheldon was devastated because Wheaton (Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) failed to show up at a fan convention that Sheldon took a 10-hour bus ride to attend (in which he had to "twice violate his personal rule of no relief on a moving vehicle"). In the final match, Sheldon is about to defeat his hated rival, but Wheaton tells Sheldon that the reason he missed the convention was because his grandmother had died. After Sheldon wastes his last opportunity to win under sympathy, Wheaton reveals that he lied about his grandmother, allowing him to win the game. Wil Wheaton makes a second appearance in the episode "The Wheaton Recurrence", where he uses gamesmanship again as seen when he breaks up Leonard and Penny's relationship in order to win a bowling competition against the main characters. In "The 21-Second Excitation", Wheaton appears at a screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which he uses his celebrity status to go to the front of a long line. This antagonizes Sheldon, who derides him as the "Jar Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe". Wheaton and his entourage effectively prevent Sheldon and the guys from attending the screening when the last seat in the theater goes to the person directly in front of them in line. Ultimately, Sheldon steals the prints of the film and Wheaton leads a mob of angry Raiders fans after Sheldon, Howard, Raj and Leonard. In the Season 5 episode "The Russian Rocket Reaction", Wheaton appears to be genuinely sorry for his past actions, and gives Sheldon a signed Wesley Crusher action figure as a way of thanking Sheldon for being a fan. His gesture is met with a renunciation of his "mortal enemy" status, and a hug from Sheldon. Along with LeVar Burton, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner and George Takei, Wheaton makes Star Trek the most represented franchise on the show in terms of guest appearances. At Howard's bachelor party during the "The Stag Convergence" episode, Wil video-records the toasts and uploads them to the Internet, getting Howard and Raj in trouble with Bernadette and showing that he hasn't lost all of his "evil" quirks.