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The Ready Room: Wil Wheaton set to host Star Trek: Picard aftershow
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Ahead of Picard's highly-anticipated debut next week, CBS All Access
has revealed that the Patrick Stewart-led Star Trek spinoff series
will be having its own aftershow titled The Ready Room. Star Trek:
The Next Generation series alum Wil Wheaton will host the show.
Wheaton is best known for portraying the role of Wesley Crusher.
His character made his last appearance in 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis
film. The Picard aftershow is scheduled to air every Thursdays,
beginning on January 23.

Star Trek: Picard will tell the next story of Picard's life, taking
place after Star Trek: Next Generation. Plot details are being kept
under wraps, but Star Trek: Discovery creator Alex Kurtzman 
revealed in March that it will be "a very different show from
Discovery." He also mentioned that the series will be a "very
thoughtful, psychological portrait in a lot of ways... Things have
changed for [Picard] and changed him in some ways, and yet he is so
deeply and fundamentally still Picard."

The series will also see the return of Star Trek alums including
Brent Spiner as Data, Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh the Borg, and Star
Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine along with Marina
Sirtis as Commander Deanna Troi and Jonathan Frakes as Riker. It
will also be featuring Santiago Cabrera (Big Little Lies), Michelle
Hurd (Blindspot), Evan Evagora (Fantasy Island), Alison Pill (The
Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Mr. Mercedes, Penny Dreadful), and Isa
Briones (American Crime Story: Versace).

Picard will have its U.S. debut on January 23, 2020, on CBS All
Access and will be available in more than 200 countries and
territories on January 24, 2020, on Amazon Prime Video.

Star Trek: Discovery co-creator and executive producer Alex
Kurtzman will oversee development on the new show, which is not a 
Star Trek: The Next Generation reboot but rather a continuation of
Picard's story. Michael Chabon will serve as showrunner.

Kurtzman will executive produce alongside Star Trek: Discovery 
executive producer James Duff, former Discovery executive producer
Akiva Goldsman (The Dark Tower), Michael Chabon (Spider-Man 2) and 
Star Trek: Voyager and Discovery writer Kirsten Beyer. Also
executive producing are Heather Kadin of Secret Hideout and
Roddenberry Entertainment President Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, son
of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and Roddenberry
Entertainment COO Trevor Roth.


<https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1118754-the-ready-room-wil-wheaton-host-star-trek-picard-aftershow>

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