Header image: Wil Wheaton/Instagram

After After Trek concluded its one-season run as a Star Trek: Discovery after-show in 2018, the format shifted to Facebook Live where a weekly live-stream for Discovery’s second-season episodes called The Ready Room — hosted by Naomi Kyle — ran the following day.

Now, with the return of Jean-Luc Picard comes another familiar face as The Ready Room gets remodeled for the launch of Star Trek: Picard.

Announced by CBS on Sunday afternoon, Star Trek: The Next Generation veteran (and Star Trek: Nemesis guest star) Wil Wheaton will take over the weekly behind-the-scenes series, set to air Thursdays after each new episode of Star Trek: Picard.

Wheaton took to Facebook to post more details about his involvement in the show:

 
The once-acting-ensign also commented on Reddit about the show’s planned availability, with expectations that the streaming program will be distributed across many different digital platforms: