On his blog, writer and actor Wil Wheaton — Wesley Crusher of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame — reveals that he’s writing a story for the second volume of Tokyopop’s Star Trek: The Manga, which stars the characters from the original TV series:

Initially, I was terrified at the prospect of creating and writing this story, but this voice in my head kept saying, “Dude, this would be so cool! Come on, man, let’s do this!” Ultimately, I decided that if I’m going to truly call myself a Writer, and if I’m truly going to write that novel someday, I’ve got to tackle fiction sooner or later . . . and what better way to test myself than with characters and a universe that I already know?

Of course, as soon as I got to seriously working on it (and had Kirk say“Captain’s Log …” for the first time) I realized that even though I have a bit of a safety net with this project, the very fact that I am writing an original series Star Trek story means that the safety net is actually built out of barbed wire. And there are alligators crawling around on it, and monkeys with BB blowguns are constantly shooting at me while I walk across the high wire from “I have an idea” to “Okay, it’s done!” Thanks to the tireless efforts of my friend Andrew, I haven’t had to worry too much about falling off the wire (and I owe Andrew a huge debt of gratitude, because at one point I was ready to leap off the wire, and he talked me into staying on it. In fact it’s not a stretch at all to say that this project wouldn’t exist without Andrew’s participation, and since I know he won’t accept the credit he deserves, I’ll just give it here) and throughout this entire process, what hasn’t killed me has definitely made me stronger, so to speak.

The second volume is scheduled for September release, according to Amazon.

(Link via Japanator.)

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