Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor, writer, voice actor, and blogger, and has been described as an "ambassador for more traditional nerd topics". He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and appeared in other such films as Stand by Me, Toy Soldiers , The Curse, and Flubber, as well as such television shows as Teen Titans, Legion of Super Heroes, Ben 10: Alien Force, Leverage and Dr. Isaac Parrish on Eureka. . He regularly appears as a fictionalized version of himself on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He wrote the Star Wars short story "Laina" for the anthology book From a Certain Point of View.