Exactly what I was going to say. I don’t watch the Star Trek shows, but I did know who some of the contestants were. I was very impressed with all of the players. They did have some pretty easy questions, but I think there were some hard ones too.
Bill cracked me up - he’s the biggest ham ever! I was sorry to see him go so soon - that was just wrong. Wil was very annoying, but I guess he was just acting the part. Too bad he did it so well; I completely bought it. I said to my fiance after Roxann gave her little speech, “She needs a dose of ‘get over yourself’”. As for the high final total and easy questions, the questions for any celebrity WL are just as easy, and the Survivor crew (with their incredibly smelly cabal plot), or the infamous people show (who knew Kato Caelin had two brain cells to rub together?) didn’t have numbers anywhere near this high. I say, give credit where credit’s due - they performed well. The only thing missing for me was a cast member of “Enterprise”.
Why does “Wil” spell his name with only one “L”?
Why does “Roxann” spell her name without the “E”?
Am I only one of six in the world who thinks that “Wil” was miscast in the role of Cadet/Ensign Crusher? Is there anyone (else) out there?
Don’t what caused me to watch that particular episode of Weakest Link. Maybe in never-ending hopes that a stage-light will fall on the host(ess). 
Maybe just to watch the mind-boggling suck-up to the host(ess) by the contestants. :o Maybe because it was nighttime and dark outside.
If you ever notice that Shatner is going to be on Letterman or a similar show, you should always watch. He’s always a great guest, usually telling some long and involved (and hilarious) story about how his dogs ruined some neighbor’s life. Trust me, you’ll practically bust a gut.
–Cliffy
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Robert Picardo (the Doctor from Voyager) was standing next to the icky elf. I’m presuming she was mouthing to him.
Knead
At least the name “Ann” is legitimately spelled IRL with no “e” sometimes. Other than the icky elf, I’ve never heard of anyone spelling “Wil” with one “l”.
At a guess, I’d say because Wil is a nickname, and he had some say in the spelling when he shortened it from William. On the other hand, Roxann is a given name, and the spelling was chosen by her parents. I think I prefer this spelling (not a fan of the name, but Roxann looks… softer).
According to IMDB, Wil Wheaton’s birth name was Richard William Wheaton III, and Roxann Dawson was born Roxann Cabalero.
I wonder why he went with Wil Wheaton, and not Dic Wheaton?
I think the next time celebrities do a Weakest Link, they should all agree to vote for themselves for the good of the charities. (Although it might make for a boring show)
I would have liked to see Data, Bashir and Spock compete on this show. Or on Jeopardy.
Roxann says she knew it was a joke:
Otto, cazzle … come on, y’all, get with it. I’m not picking on poor Roxann. She has enough on her shoulders going through life being as good looking as Wil Weaton, for crying out loud.
Man, now I feel bad for thinking she was a crackhead. It was pretty crappy of NBC to cut off her laugh - it made her seem very serious.
Come on, now – Roxann Dawson was joking. I don’t watch WL often, but the post-ejection clips were designed to amp up the interpersonal “tension”, WWF-style. (So says a friend who used to write for the show’s first U.S. episodes.) Besides, since Wheaton and Dawson were never colleagues, his comment was clearly just a spontaneous but lame comeback, trying to match the biting and painstakingly researched and rehearsed Anne Robinson quips. (For which my writer friend was once responsible – she doesn’t come up with much of that stuff on the fly, it’s fed to her on the monitor).
<What? What’s an apostate-Trekkie, turned off by the franchise’s slide into mediocrity, doing watching this shamefully guilty pleasure 60 minutes?>
Uh, just ignore my post.