Editing Wil Wheaton (section)

===Post-''Star Trek''===
[[File:Wil Wheaton.jpg|thumb|Wheaton in 2001]]
Wheaton played Joey Trotta in the action film ''[[Toy Soldiers (1991 film)|Toy Soldiers]]'' (1991). After leaving ''Star Trek'', he moved to [[Topeka, Kansas]], to work for [[NewTek]], where he helped to develop the [[Video Toaster]] 4000 doing product testing and quality control<ref name="avclub">{{Citation | first = Nathan | last = Rabin | contribution-url = https://www.avclub.com/wil-wheaton-1798208240 | contribution = Wil Wheaton | type = interview | title = [[The A.V. Club]] | date = November 20, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/05/29/conversations-with-god-wil-wheaton/ | title = Conversations with GoD | contribution = Wil Wheaton | publisher = Geeks of Doom | access-date = May 2, 2009 | date = May 29, 2008}}</ref> and later used his public profile to serve as a [[technology evangelist]] for the product.<ref name="wired05">{{Cite magazine |last=Jacobs |first=Stephen |date=May 1, 1994 | url = https://www.wired.com/1994/05/flying-toasters/ | title = Flying Toasters | magazine = Wired | volume = 2 | issue = 5}}</ref>

Afterward, he returned to Los Angeles, attended acting school for five years, and then re-entered the acting world.<ref name="nerdist63">{{Citation |title=Wil Wheaton |work=Nerdist |date=Nov 2011 |number=63  |type=podcast |url=http://www.nerdist.com/2011/02/nerdist-podcast-63-wil-wheaton/ |access-date=December 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127085852/http://www.nerdist.com/2011/02/nerdist-podcast-63-wil-wheaton/ |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |at=8 min }}</ref><ref name="Wil Wheaton2004">{{Cite book|first=Wil|last=Wheaton|title=Just a geek: unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise|year=2004|publisher=O'Reilly|location=Sebastopol, CA|isbn=0-596-00768-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/justgeek0000whea/page/9 9]|url=https://archive.org/details/justgeek0000whea/page/9}}</ref>

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wheaton appeared in several [[independent film]]s, including the award-winning ''[[The Good Things (film)|The Good Things]]'' (2001), in which he portrays a frustrated Kansas [[Toll road|tollbooth]] worker.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Good Things |url=http://wilwheaton.net/2002/03/the_good_things/ |website=WIL WHEATON dot NET |date=March 15, 2002 |access-date=January 15, 2020}}</ref> For his performance in ''[[Jane White Is Sick & Twisted]]'' (2002) he received the award for Best Actor at the [[Melbourne Underground Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Winners Of The 2002 MUFF Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030829073751/http://www.muff.com.au/2002/news.html#awards|url=http://www.muff.com.au/2002/noflash_index.html|archive-date=August 29, 2003|date=July 25, 2002|publisher=Melbourne Underground Film Festival}}</ref>

Wheaton regularly portrayed a fictionalized version of himself on ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', becoming a recurring guest star and then side character on the show.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MSN |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/the-big-bang-theory-s-8-best-side-characters-ranked/ar-BB1kOvpF?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=www.msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibbons |first=Ben |date=2023-12-29 |title=12 Best Guest Stars In The Big Bang Theory |url=https://screenrant.com/big-bang-theory-best-guest-stars/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref>

In June 2024, Wheaton announced that he was retired from on-screen acting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wilwheaton.net/2024/06/happy-retirement-to-me/|title=happy (on camera acting) retirement to me|date=June 5, 2024}}</ref>