138 thoughts on “Set Phasers to “Kill.””

1. Don’t let morons get you down, Wil. Letting them live alone in their miserable little worlds while the rest of us enjoy our lives is the best ‘revenge’, wouldn’t you say?

2. Wil,
   The world is full of attention seeking twats like this – do your blood pressure some good and forget all about it.
   In the meantime, feel free to get your arse over to the UK so you can flog your autograph to us. $10 seems a bit on the cheap side to me, and we appreciate our SciFi stars over here.
   I enjoyed Collectormania 4 in Milton Keynes a month or so ago, and there’s another one next year. Any chance you can visit us this side of the pond?

3. FWIW… You still have his link in your RSS news feed. At least it is in what’s showing up for you and I clicked to find his profile.
   Just in case you want to clean that up.

4. Everyone knows you are the sweetest guy and that your wife is the world’s nicest person. When I read that post I it pissed me off because you are totally cool to your fans and would never say or do anything like that.
   Still lovin’ Wil,
   Eppy

5. Well, you aren’t going to get an apology cause he got what he wanted out of you which was his 10 minutes or so of “fame”. Thing is,you can punch him in the nose a lot better verbally than you could if you met him face to face. He’s not going to apologize any time soon in this century. Guess it’s time to deal with it and move on.

6. To Mr. Bruce Cook:
   You may be in a wheelchair, but that does not give you the RIGHT to demand and receive compassion from others, especially as you so blatantly lie about them, Wil Wheaton being your recent target. Wil puts himself naked out on his blog and in the real world for all to see, and when someone such as you doesn’t even take the time to lie cleverly, it sadly turns the spotlight negatively on you and your ilk. This was not the way to attempt to gain others’ sympathy, and I suspect that your lie will backfire badly and bring you only further hardship and heartache.
   I occasionally disagree with Wil’s opinions (I’ve had Life kick me in the ass longer than he), but I ABSOLUTELY respect him because, among numerous other reasons, he is wholely genuine and honest. I read his work daily BECAUSE he is so genuine. In a world sinking ever more quickly into the toilet, your hurtful lies only contribute toward your falling down that black hole ever more quickly yourself. You, especially, bound in your prison of ills, should be ashamed of yourself for spreading such fallaciousness.
   In a world in which lying is now, apparently, a value, Wil Wheaton’s honesty, directness and upstanding character are remarkably rejuvenating, refreshing and inspiring, which is why I do not believe your contentions for a single iota, and neither do several million other people, to whose attention your misrepresentation has been brought. Wil is NOT the sort of person you claim him to be through your prevarication. Anyone who consistently reads Wil’s words and has an IQ above room temperature knows this truth, and I submit that the problem here lays with you – NOT Wil.
   If you really need that money so badly for your medical needs, you should not have frivolously spent money going to the Convention.
   You are, Sir, a FRAUD!
   I hope you heal soon, but prevarication as medicine shall always fail you.

7. Fuckin’ EH!!!

8. What an asshole! What a relieve it’s bonfire night tonight-I can have fun imagining that dude sitting on top of the pile of burning flames, screaming out for mercy and me smiling back, giving him none! Or we can always attach him to a metaphorical firework. Now let’s think…

9. On a brighter note, Neil Gaman mentions you on his blog today, http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2003_11_02_archive.asp#106801996675269876

10. I say find where that fucker is and hit him with a lawsuit so large that he wouldn’t be able to get out of it. If you can afford it perhaps an investigator specializes in cyber crime (isn’t libel a crime?) and track this “Bruce” person. That is also defamation of character. You know and we know that you’re not a money hungry prick like this guy made you out to be. But then again, your suggestion about flooding that person’s email may not be so bad!

11. Being in a wheelchair is NO excuse for bad manners and a twisted disposition. This poor excuse for a human being is more disabled than he thinks. And, unfortunately, his worst disability is self-inflicted.
    Wil, rise above this and let it flow around and over you. You will still be Wil Wheaton and all the good you stand for; this guy will still be shooting himself in the foot. Rather than heap scorn on him, I’d feel very, very sorry for him — pity is a dish best served cold.

12. “They called the Enterprise a garbage scow, sir.”
    We all hev our buttons.

13. What an assclown. Like Anne would ever say that. Hell, I bet that if you weren’t totally nice to the people in line, she’d smack the basck of your head.
    As Bugs Bunny would have said, “What a maroon!”

14. Sue the mofo!

15. I’ve personally seen how you handle disabled people. At the very least, Chris and I know it’s a fabrication. What an idiot…

16. Wil,
    I agree with what other people here have said, no person who could be as callous as “Bruce” alleges could produce such feeling journal entries. I don’t believe anyone can fake the kind of heart you show in your blog.
    Besides, if you were that kind of arrogant, callous bastard, I doubt you’d give a rat’s ass what some yahoo out on the net says about you. It just goes to show how you wear your heart on your sleeve, which to me is the mark of a genuinely feeling person.
    I’d have wanted to nuke him from orbit too. It’s the only way to be sure.
    Take care Wil!
    Chris

17. What a creep! Anne is such a wonderful lady. I know she’d never say anything like that. You have every right to be pissed at this guy.

18. Consider Bruce Cook flamed, seriously flamed, to a crisp in fact….

19. Strong bad rules
    http://www.homestarrunner.com/whatsinthebag.html

20. Find out where he lives and go joyriding in his weelchair

21. What a loser! Why the hell do people do things like that? Do they have no conscience, whatsoever?! You show ’em Wil!

22. Noone believes that spung, anyone who’s read your blog (and certainly those in your career history)know better.
    On the lighter side of things, Who cares if someone lies about you, and doesn’t like you.
    We like you, and that’s more gooder to the point of being bester than the bestest. 😉

23. Wil, ignore this pigfucker you’re great and I hope that one day Ill have the chance to meet you here on a german Con 🙂 .. by the way I like the way you wrote this article lol – Cheers! Chris

24. Wil, he ain’t worth it. The important thing is that there are a lot more people who know that you and Anne would never do such a thing, adn that this guy’s a lying douchebag.
    We love you, he’s an idiot. Who’s more important?
    But don’t let that stop you from suing the bastard.

25. This is like the time I met Wil Wheaton. I was just recovering from a terrible car accident and I was in a wheelchair in a full body cast, still temporarily blind from glass fragments, using a respirator, my speech was slurred from the pain medication I was on, and I was recovering from a bout of severe depression as a result of killing the hippopotamus that I hit with my car. I also had leukemia. And a bad case of psoriasis.
    “Please, Mr. Wheaton, please won’t you smile for me? I know I could get well faster if you would show me your handsome smile for just a moment. Please, Mr. Wheaton?” I pleaded.
    It was right about that time when Wil Wheaton pulled out a pair of Uzis and discharged both clips into my increasingly bloody and increasingly pulpy, bloody pulp of a body, killing me in a matter of seconds.
    He then told me I was fat.
    I, speaking as someone who has also invented a story about being abused by Wil Wheaton, believe Bruce Kook with all of my lying heart.

26. I won’t lie that was about the funniest thing I have read all morning. Why funny? You have to know first I have never seen a picture of your wife but by the way you describe and talk about her the thought and imagery of her saying those things is freaking hiliarious. I was convinced long ago what a nice guy and family you have and your 11/2 post sealed it so yes I thought it was funny to hear someone say you told a crippled and broke guy to shove off. I’d say don’t let it get you down but I know it is hard not to. So i’ll say chalk it up to the ass gnome section and look at your wife remember her in that moment when you thought there couldn’t be anything more beautiful than her and imagine her saying ” then roll your crippled ass out of here” you’ll see the humor

27. Cmon Wil, lighten up. It’s such a ridiculously obvious lie that you can’t help but laugh.
    Apparently the guy that insert profane words between the names of former cast members can’t take a little dishing out himself.

28. Wil,
    He’s an asshole, that’s certainly true. It’s weird though, in Hollywood, they say it doesn’t matter what they say about you as long as they’re still talking about you. It seems as the more famous you get, the more outlandish the tales become. This guy perhaps thinks he writes for the tabloids, because it sure smacks of that kind of crap.
    Wil, the Blog People love and support you, and know the truth, and the truth shall spread upon the planet, and the world will rejoice at the purity and compassion of the Weatons.

29. HOLY FUCK! 0.o
    This person must be really mental to make up such STUPID shit. I’m so sorry that this fucknut pile of pig shit went after you and your wife.
    BELOW THE FUCkING BELT, MAN!!!
    It reminds me… I hate the very stupid.
    *sigh*
    Oh well lets go back to hanging out at the stick, looking at a thing in a bag. *wink*
    *SuperFuzzyOtterPrincessHuggles*

30. Eh, you got the opportunity to make a Homestar reference. They TP’ed the stick this year. :\
    Plus, that dude’s an ass.

31. Honey, it didn’t even sound like something you guys would say, ever. Don’t worry there are a lot of people out here who, even though they haven’t “met” you, they know better.
    I think that Cook guy is kind of sad.

32. This reminds me of a story. Once I saw Wil Wheaton at a convention or something and I was in a wheelchair. I went up and asked for an autograph. HE GAVE ME $10.00 TO TAKE THE AUTOGRAPH!!! It was the best day of my life. I was able to eat that day.
    Thanks, Wil. You rock!

33. Dude, let it go.
    Your anger while understandable (believe me, I know) does no harm to those who wrong you, while potentially doing great harm to you and those you care about. The best thing you can do though is put yourself above it. I mean let

34. Wil,
    There are people in this world who think they will get some sort of recognition out of saying things about people they have either never met, or seen once – be it TV, signings or just in a bus queue. Pretty much everyone who reads your blog knows you are not like that, neither, I doubt very much, is your wife.
    Don’t let comments like that get you down – remember, they are small minded people with too much time on their hands, and they want to get somewhere off someone elses hard work.
    Have a better one tomorrow.
    TC

35. Hi Wil, I love reading WWdN, I check in every day. Now I find out some schmuck is posting crap about you & your wife on yahoo. Well, I went for a look see. I checked to see how many members were in that group, a whopping 348! Now how many hits a day do you get Mr.Top Blog, Mr.Married to a Babe, Mr.Published Author, Mr. Wil has a Posse? Relax Wil, there is strength in numbers. Anyone you care about, or who cares about you, knows crap when they hear it. As do the MORE than 384 of your DAILY readers. Although a well placed phaser blast, set on “shut the fuck up you scum bag” might just do the trick. You decide, the posse ain’t a goin’ no whare! PJ

36. the funny thing is, i doubt the guy is even truly disabled. it just made for a better story. what a loser. i have to admit though, it IS sort of funny to even imagine Anne saying such a thing.

37. Yeah, I think the crux of it is that this guy’s legs are what don’t work, not his eyes – so he should have been able to read a damned sign and figure out that if you’re in the line for an autograph, you’re paying $10.00 for it, even if you’re a troll in a chair looking for sympathy freebies (my brother-in-law’s wheelchair-bound, a huge Star Trek fan, and he’d never dream of asking for an exemption like that). Obviously the words he attributed to you and Anne were flat-out lies born of bitterness that his scam didn’t play out.
    That being said, I think you’re only giving this wanker more reasons to feel persecuted by advertising his post and opening him up to a flamestorm. He seems the sort who thrives on victimization, and sadly, I suspect the only thing he’s going to take away from this exposure is the masochistic satisfaction of being able to say he was flamed by the WWDN posse.
    I definitely respect your outrage and desire to protect your wife’s honor. Still, I think only the most devoted scandal-lovers could possibly buy the unlikely tale this guy’s trying to sell. I hope you can let it go and dismiss ol’ Bruce like the loser he is.

38. While technically, he just libeled your wife (a friend of mine had someone falsely accuse him of making threats against him in his blog, and said friend’s attorney declared it actionable if he wanted to pursue it), it’s also very not worth being angry about. He wanted to get a rise out of you. It worked. He doesn’t deserve that level of power in your life.
    And allow me to join the others in saying that I really admire the love you show for your wife in all of this. My husband’s much the same with me and vice versa. Ain’t true love grand?

39. I totally understand your fury, I’m the same way… when I perceive a threat to the people I care about I go from zero to kick-ass in microseconds. Kudos to you for standing up for yourself and your family!
    …And of course we all know it’s not true, This guys probably some jealous schmuck who’s ex girlfriend left him because he was a [Censored explitive]. 😉
    I bet he never thought he’d actually get your attention, let alone the brunt of your fury. 😉

40. Ok this is just plain wrong…wrong…wrong..wrong.
    I met up with Will Wheaton and his wife at a vasgas con, and let me tell you he is one of the greatest star trek guest I have ever met.
    This bruce cook has painted, or should I say fingure painted, a very incorrect picture of Will and his wife.
    If this flaming rectal pore of a drone does not whish to set the record straight, then allow me to make this statment.
    Will and wife are to cool catz.
    Live fast, die hard , and never steal the mask off the long ranger.
    see ya kids.

41. One of my fave comedians is Bill Hicks. On “Rant in E-Minor” he says he has a new TV show called “Let’s hunt and kill Billy Ray Cyrus”
    Sounds good as long as we change the name to “Let’s hunt and kill Bruce Cook”
    ***Legal disclamer***
    I (the author of this post) do not wish for Bruce Cook to actually die or for anyone to hunt and kill him…I just think it would be kinda cool. That’s all.
    ***end disclamer***
    Damn, talking shit about Wil’s wife. That’s really fuckin with the wrong bull.
    Sean

42. Just like to say that I love and support The Wheat, and therefore, through the Transitive Postulate of Equality, love the Mrs. The Wheat.
    ::sends lots of love and good mojo::
    /my $.02

43. I’m the same way when anyone in any way threatens those I love. Fuck me over all you want, but when it comes to those I care about your ass is grass. (I almost typed ‘crass’ which I suppose would’ve worked…but no. Heh.)
    That whole story reeked of bullshit. Anyone who’s read your site would know Anne would never say such a thing. (Or even seen her picture, she has a very kind face)
    Really, anyone with common sense and a good bullshit detector would know it was false.
    Don’t let the assholes get you down, it’s much more fun to pity and or laugh at them. *nods*

44. I have to agree with the “That Sucks” commenters. That definitely does suck.
    And what makes it even sillier is that based on my memory of SF conventions, there is no shortage of actors who actually do act slightly un-charmingly – and no shortage of actors who are Real Cool Guys, either, particularly the older ones – but I will always remember meeting Mira Furlan. Clutched my sixty dollar ticket and the twenty dollar photo of her and asked shyly for her autograph for my absent father… like you don’t (yah, I know now that actresses have better things to do, but then I was ignorant)…
    She gave me the You Are Pond Scum look. “I’m talking /hairdressing/”, she said. Then went back to it.
    Of course, I wasn’t in a wheelchair. And I, personally, thought it was hilarious.
    But now it occurs to me that I am saying nasty things about the poor lady on a bulletin board for no apparent reason (and Claudia Christian didn’t even turn up, so… :-), so I would like to add that she is certainly kind to small animals and children and also that this whole story was irrelevant to your unfortunate plot.
    To which I should like to suggest suing the little git.

45. Man, Wil
    When are you gonna grow up and quit getting mad about things people say on the internet/in person about you?

46. wow, man. there’re idiots everywhere. Honestly, i see stupid people do stupid things every day, and every day someone manages to marvel me with their stupidity, audacity and just plain mean spiritedness.
    there’re some folks that need nailed to the floor and set on fire. andi’m just saying that as a general thing. was talking to my friend who’s a lawyer who’s client destroyed her whole case by talking to the media… after she told the client not to. and didn’t the damned thing get picked up by AP.
    people in general just need set on fire sometimes.
    (i’m not advocating violence. I’m just saying… sometimes…)

47. Oh yeah, this actually really sounds likes Uncle Willy’s normal behavior. Or even his abnormal behavior. Yeah, thanks Bruce. But ya gotta love Bruce’s apparent sincerity, he must have a future as a fiction writer. Or a lawyer. Or a politician. Ya.

48. Wil, all I can say to you is….Don’t let the bastard get you down. You know that you and Anne are good people, and everyone else who knows you, or for that matter, even knows of you, knows you are good people. This guy, Bruce, will get what he deserves in the end.

49. I don’t check the blog for one day and miss all the excitement. Anyone who reads Wil’s blog knows that no way Anne would ever say something like that. It’s almost comical how unbelievable that message is, if it wasn’t so hurtful. What a jerk.
    It’s bizarre to read that post right after the warm and fuzzy one with Nolan.
    Chin up, Wil. You know your monkeys are with you.

50. Maybe you can get StrongMad to throw him and his wheelchair off a cliff.

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