The Ready Room: Wil Wheaton Set to Host Picard Aftershow

January 16, 2020

The Ready Room: Wil Wheaton set to host Star Trek: Picard aftershow

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.