Wil Wheaton will appear as Lieutenant Commander Wesley Crusher, Assistant Chief Engineer of the USS Titan, in a short video for “Star Trek: The Tour”. This is a Star Trek interactive exhibit that has full-size replicas of the NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-D bridges. This includes captain’s chairs you can sit in while being filmed in a blue screen environment. Imagine being able to “act” in a mini-episode with celluloid Spock and Kirk.

Star Trek: The Tour is a five-year mission. It launches in Long Beach, California, on Thur Jan 17th as part of a forty-city tour through the U.S. and Canada over the next five years.

This will of course be great for creating buzz about the upcoming Star Trek XI movie (Dec 25). Yeah, like Star Trek needs more buzz to get anyone to see it.

[sources: Slice of SciFi, WWdN: In Exile]