Wil Wheaton – internet visionary, itinerant gamer and sci-fi role-player extraordinaire – is rejoining TNT's Robin Hood hacker drama Leverage.
The Star Trek: The Next Generation grad returns as Chaos, the Leverage team's sweater-wearing nemesis, for the forthcoming episode "The Ho Ho Ho Job." In the episode, which begins shooting soon, Chaos leads a rogue hacker group trying to take down a shopping mall (and Santa Claus' reputation with it).
The new cameo is just the latest addition to supergeek Wheaton's busy acting schedule. "In addition to recurring as Chaos on Leverage," he told Wired.com in an e-mail, "I've been playing Evil Wil Wheaton on The Big Bang Theory, Fawkes on Season 4 of The Guild and Doctor Isaac Parrish on the upcoming season of Eureka."
When Wheaton's not guest-starring in whatever cool sci-fi shows remain on television and the internet, he's dork-hopping around the country with Adam Savage and Paul and Storm, launching what he calls the "nerd vaudeville show" w00tstock.
In the Trek department, Wheaton is working on the second volume of his hilarious, self-published oral history of Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season, called Memories of the Future, as well as "a few other projects that I can't talk about right now," he said. He's also looking forward to screening Rod Roddenberry and Scott Colthorp's documentary Trek Nation, once a distributor gets nailed down.
"Trek Nation is going to be amazing," Wheaton said. "I know that Rod has been working on it for a long time, and I talked with him about it a great deal during production, so I feel closer to the project than any other Trek documentary. It was incredibly emotional for both of us when he interviewed me for it, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it."
The rest of us Trek and internet fans are looking forward to watching Wheaton on Leverage and Eureka this year. So how much do we have to pay to make him a full-bore cast member?
"I'm not sure, but if you find out, let me know," Wheaton said. "I'd love to play these characters more frequently."
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