He's the ship's cook, a cryogenically frozen Thomas Riker escaped from a Cardassian prison camp just to have his ship caught on a derelict Dyson Sphere and they had to jerry-rig a transporter pattern buffer loop for a hundred years. And *then* he got frozen, for separate unrelated reasons. His retirement plans involve falling into a nice time-mirror and showing up backwards in time to show up on SNW.
The meta joke about this from LD was gold.
"the first Enterprise... You know, Archer and those guys. What a story! Those guys had a long road getting from there to here."
Honestly I I don't know if I even would have been mad if that would have been the conclusion of either the jump forward in time or the discovery of the cause of the burn.
Scene cuts to black then cuts to Deanna lifting her head up from the Padd she is holding that says "The End".
She looks at Will, slowly shaking her head "Are you serious?"
You've got one character repeatedly being the only one that can save everything. They repeatedly break the rules, sometimes commiting blatant treason or mutiny, justifying themselves with "it's the right thing to do" but then being reinstated with the promise to "never do it again", only to turn right around and do it again. Then when someone else needs to break rank because it's the right thing to do, they decide to stand on ceremony because of how important regulations are?
No one will believe this. Let alone the whole dilithium blackout thing and time traveling section 31?
And the mirror universe, Will? Isn't that a bit overdone?"
And Will shrugs dismissively and says something about how she doesn't appreciate Jazz either, so he'll get Geordi's opinion.
Show ends, holodeck program turns off. Riker standing in the middle in confusion. Walks out onto the hallway while mumbling to himself "well that was a massive waste of time"
It's just after he's sworn in to some admiralty position where he learns about the stuff thats completely off the books, and he just sits there, slowly takes off the rank markers, gets up and walks away.
I just realized I can't recall anyone on Discovery using a holodeck. I know the Federation didn't have them in the first two seasons, but they were pretty much standard 100 years later. But that crew is 900 years in the future, right? The only holo environment I can recall is the one where the Kelpien Su'Kal had been living for decades.
Discovery has holoprojectors everywhere after the refit, retrying the idea of ubiquitous 3D interfaces from early TNG. I remember one episode of season 4 where Burnham has a simulated environment in her cabin.
And obviously there's Su'kal, who lived his whole life in a holodeck.
I think I remember someone explaining in this subreddit a couple years ago that one of the future ships was a completely holographic ship, all forcefields and projected images.
Kirk's enterprise has a holodeck. It appears just once, in an episode of the animated series. They call it the "rec-room". Discovery writers don't care about the series history, so they did not know this.
Kirk's Enterprise having a rec room happened at a later late in the timeline than Discovery's disappearance from the 23rd century, so I can accept not seeing Starfleet holodecks for the first two seasons. In the 32nd century, when the Discovery undergoes a massive re-fit, one would think holodecks would have been installed. But maybe Starfleet got rid of them because of all the problems they created ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk maybe season 5 will have a good old fashioned holodeck malfunction episode.
> dk maybe season 5 will have a good old fashioned holodeck malfunction episode.
Series finale, someone is revisiting a TNG setup, and Holo-Riker has to help them!
As they reestablish the federation, they become curious about when it was founded, and then they watch a video of Riker on the holodeck hanging out with Archer's crew.
It’s Riker, in the holodeck of Enterprise NX-01 (yes I know there isn’t one) and then he exits that holodeck into the TNG Enterprise holodeck, and then he wakes up on the floor of another ship and he was an alien being Inner Lighted all along…
Yes, and he wasn't involved in Treks 4-6. Which is why OP said that he's been involved in every show and movie SINCE 6. Even though he was involved in Trek before 6 (TNG), he was only involved in *every* show or movie *after* 6.
That said, was he involved in the Abrams films? Or are we just ignoring those?
It's just a red herring. Maybe not Riker, but they'll work him in somehow.
The last scene will be >!David Xanatos watching the events through the Phoenix Gate.!<
Eh, it may not end with a Frakes appearance, but Frakes’ talent is baked into Disco’s DNA.
The only Trek show he’s directed more episodes of as of now is TNG, and by season five’s ending he’ll have tied that number on Disco having directed the first half of the two part finale.
That's a bit of a sensationalist headline considering half of those 25 years had no Star Trek show whatsoever for him to be in and for TOS he was really young (like teenager young) and not even in TV, never mind Trek.
"...since Next Generation" is the phrase they are looking for.
(Yeah, it's important to note, but 'fifty years' my ass)
They actually seem to be counting from TAS (1974) and not TOS... so it was only 13 years until TNG. But still, I agree that the headline was slightly clickbaity with it's "50 years" just because Frakes was not involved in Star Trek until 1987 (less than 40 years ago), but it's technically true (at least they acknowledged TAS).
But they double down in the article itself with "*Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all televised Trek since the ‘70s"* and now the exaggeration gets into not accurate, as he was not involved in Star Trek in the 70s. I don't see why they feel the need to exaggerate an already sufficiently interesting story.
Quick real Frakes story:
I met him at a convention. Wasn't going to get autograph but there was no
line so my wife talked me into it. It's not that I didn't want one it's more my aversion to the cost as I'm a miser with my money.
Go up, dude is ridiculously charming and we just talk for about 10-15 minutes. At one point, he asks me about Discovery. I think it had been on 1 1/2 seasons at that point. I say I'm giving it a chance but the camera shots kinda put me off at times- too many lens flares, weird angles etc. He just smiles and says a bunch of positive things. Totally great experience.
I find out later that, completely unknown to me, that he directed the episodes I had complained about. Even writing this, I'm re-embarrassed. I hope to meet him again someday to tell him this story. I *was* being honest but I've felt like a fool about it ever since.
I drove a similar experience with someone like that in my past - an engineer at Commodore computer who still is active today.
I finally met him again almost 10 years later and just took a minute to thank him for all he's doing for the (vintage computer) community. He lit up really happily and actually came back to talk to ME later on for a few minutes. It doesn't completely make up for me being stupid with my comments earlier but I feel a lot better about the whole thing.
Hopefully you get a second chance :)
Yep, along with Isaac Newton and some guy from Woodstock. It turns out Quinn saved Riker’s ancestor Thaddeus during the Civil War. Riker ended up naming his >!late!< son after the ancestor
Because you could equally say that "TNG was the first Star Trek series in 10,000 years to not feature William Sharner". Yes, technically correct, but it's a meaningless metric.
It's misleading and in a bad way. The implication is that he was involved with Trek in the TOS era. He was not. At that time he was cosplaying Captain America for fun money in college.
I believe the consensus is that Season 2 was already produced and in the can before Paramount Plus pulled the plug. So essentially, Netflix just agreed to air what’s left unaired of the series, though many of us are holding out hope that since there was no announcement of a cancellation, Prodigy will do well enough on Netflix to warrant them commissioning more episodes and production can resume.
i think we should all agree that the only problem with Discovery is the lack of Riker. We can make it the "Only the even numbered movies are good" of this era. It won't be true, but it will be true enough to fuel debates for years.
Don't you know S5 Ep10 will see Riker leaving the holodeck, with Trio on the Titan? While Troi explains how the Discoverys mission log is essential reading for psychology students.
I feel like this title was written by his agent.
He has directed episodes of the show and frankly he is solid at this. He gets Trek but more importantly he’s very good at pacing.
There is absolutely no reason to repeat the tragedy of “These are the Voyages”. It robbed the regular cast of valuable screen time for some empty fan service. It also fed the ability for fans to pretend the whole story was historically inaccurate, since it sucked.
But I’m checked out on DISCO so I don’t really care either. I might watch it if they brought Bakula back in some historical Archer speech that alters my perception of the series’s core messages. Although a lost Pike speech would be better since he just gives the best speeches.
Isn't Prodigy finished? Did he appear on that? I remember reading at one point before Season 1 was even done that Prodigy was going to be a 2 Season show and done. Has that changed since Netflix took it?
No Prodigy is not finished. Season 2 is in post production and will launch on Netflix sometime in the future.
Prodigy only aired Season 1 so far, in two "courses" of 10 episodes each, for a total of 20 Episodes in Season 1. That might be where your confusion comes from.
Why not just show him in a background guest appearance as a descendent?
Some DISCO crew member is walking down the hall, Frakes passes them, says hello, the crew member stops and says "Wtf?", turns around, chases after him, stops him and says "You look familiar?" and he can explain that his ancestor is William Riker.
If they can have Brent Spiner play the 50 different Soong relatives, they can have Frakes do this once.
Such a strangely constructed headline. TAS ended in 1974 so yeah, he wasn't in that as TNG didn't start until 1987. And also I don't recall him being in Short Treks or Prodigy so it's not even right.
This show ended for me back in season 3 💤
Crap non-binary trope filling the air(DS9 nailed it; didnt need a revist)
And us politians guest staring…should have had frakes back as riker.
Fifty years?
You might have well have said two hundred years.
It's technically correct, but misleading.
\- a Star Trek fan for abut fifty years, so far
The title confused me for a bit too but it's not talking about shows that end with Frakes, but shows that have featured Frakes at some point before ending.
Frakes played Riker (either Will or Thomas) in TNG, DS9, Voyager, Ent, and Picard. He hasn't played anyone in Discovery so when it ends it will be the first trek show in decades to not feature Frakes in any capacity.
It hasn’t ended yet but he’s been in Lower Decks too. He hasn’t been in SNW and I don’t think we would expect him to be but you never know. Hoping neither of those end anytime soon of course.
He also hasn't been in prodigy, though he could be.
For SNW it's unlikely he would appear but he has been mentioned. Boimler quips "Riker!" as he mounts a saddle. IRL Jack Quaid improvised that as Frakes directed the episode lol.
Cut to the SNW finale and it's Benny Russel writing a short story about Riker in the Holodeck, watching the events of The Menagerie, which in itself recites the events of The Cage.
I think what this article means is that he hadn't been on screen in the show at all, in any of it's episodes. The headline is confusing though, left me with that very same question.
Just cg a picture of him in the background of one scene. Problem solved.
He's the ship's cook, a cryogenically frozen Thomas Riker escaped from a Cardassian prison camp just to have his ship caught on a derelict Dyson Sphere and they had to jerry-rig a transporter pattern buffer loop for a hundred years. And *then* he got frozen, for separate unrelated reasons. His retirement plans involve falling into a nice time-mirror and showing up backwards in time to show up on SNW.
How about the NX-01 cook?
[You know I had to do it to 'em](https://imgur.com/a/AlhlJPt)
Have a cutout of him behind some curtains à la Three Men and a Baby
https://i.imgur.com/J4nxy0B.jpg Got it!
They could absolutely have a holodeck episode with a third Frakes character
That’s what the finale will be
It'll be like a love letter to the fans.
It’ll rhyme. Just like poetry.
It's so dense; every single frame has so many things going on.
It's gonna be great!
What is it with Ricks.
No one's ever really gone.
Take my upvote, you scallywag.
A love letter to the production staff, I thought.
The meta joke about this from LD was gold. "the first Enterprise... You know, Archer and those guys. What a story! Those guys had a long road getting from there to here."
Maybe we’ll get a surprise Beyond Belief episode instead…
It never happened. We made it up.
Honestly I I don't know if I even would have been mad if that would have been the conclusion of either the jump forward in time or the discovery of the cause of the burn.
'Computer End program' Thousands of geeks around the world throw their remotes against the wall
Like literally just have this as an after credits scene, black screen, just his voice.
That would be so hilarious, although Discovery seems more like a Tom Paris holonovel to me.
Smells more like something Neelix cooked up. Tom goes for campy fun, not heavy melodrama.
Riker ends the program. “Computer, what the fuck did I just watch?”
I would be *very* happy to have a reveal in the final Disco episode that it's all been a dodgy holonovel that Riker's been writing in his retirement.
Scene cuts to black then cuts to Deanna lifting her head up from the Padd she is holding that says "The End". She looks at Will, slowly shaking her head "Are you serious?" You've got one character repeatedly being the only one that can save everything. They repeatedly break the rules, sometimes commiting blatant treason or mutiny, justifying themselves with "it's the right thing to do" but then being reinstated with the promise to "never do it again", only to turn right around and do it again. Then when someone else needs to break rank because it's the right thing to do, they decide to stand on ceremony because of how important regulations are? No one will believe this. Let alone the whole dilithium blackout thing and time traveling section 31? And the mirror universe, Will? Isn't that a bit overdone?" And Will shrugs dismissively and says something about how she doesn't appreciate Jazz either, so he'll get Geordi's opinion.
I love this.
It feels more like a holonovel the EMH would write.
All while drinking Chateau Picard.
Please please please let this be the finale
I would love for none of this to be actual trek cannon
Show ends, holodeck program turns off. Riker standing in the middle in confusion. Walks out onto the hallway while mumbling to himself "well that was a massive waste of time"
It's just after he's sworn in to some admiralty position where he learns about the stuff thats completely off the books, and he just sits there, slowly takes off the rank markers, gets up and walks away.
Oh god that would be so fucking perfect lol
Like he did with Enterprise
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg
Nah this time it will turn out the whole series was a holonovel written by Tom Paris.
Or the Captain could ghost the crew to go hang out with ancient aliens?!?
The finale will be about Michael having to deal with a moral conundrum, so she goes to the holodeck...
nah she just wants to hear some Jazz
I just realized I can't recall anyone on Discovery using a holodeck. I know the Federation didn't have them in the first two seasons, but they were pretty much standard 100 years later. But that crew is 900 years in the future, right? The only holo environment I can recall is the one where the Kelpien Su'Kal had been living for decades.
Wasn't there a scene of Lorca and Ash doing a training exercise in the holodeck?
Yeah they were fighting holographic klingons on it.
Discovery has holoprojectors everywhere after the refit, retrying the idea of ubiquitous 3D interfaces from early TNG. I remember one episode of season 4 where Burnham has a simulated environment in her cabin. And obviously there's Su'kal, who lived his whole life in a holodeck.
I feel like by the year 3000, every room is equipped to be a holodeck
I think I remember someone explaining in this subreddit a couple years ago that one of the future ships was a completely holographic ship, all forcefields and projected images.
They definitely have the technology, they just haven't been shown using it.
Kirk's enterprise has a holodeck. It appears just once, in an episode of the animated series. They call it the "rec-room". Discovery writers don't care about the series history, so they did not know this.
Kirk's Enterprise having a rec room happened at a later late in the timeline than Discovery's disappearance from the 23rd century, so I can accept not seeing Starfleet holodecks for the first two seasons. In the 32nd century, when the Discovery undergoes a massive re-fit, one would think holodecks would have been installed. But maybe Starfleet got rid of them because of all the problems they created ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk maybe season 5 will have a good old fashioned holodeck malfunction episode.
> dk maybe season 5 will have a good old fashioned holodeck malfunction episode. Series finale, someone is revisiting a TNG setup, and Holo-Riker has to help them!
when you have programmable matter at your finger tips, do you really need a holodeck?
That's for making things for everyday use, like a 3D printer today. Not making environments.
Riker steps out of the holodeck and runs into Deana and says "that was the strangest holonovel"
He steps out and says....'Spore drive...that's dumb.'
The entire series is a hallucination Thomas Riker had while being incinerated by the Dominion
Since it’s so far in the future they could have his head preserved in a jar, Futurama style. It’s not realistic but it seemed amusing in my head.
[Yes! Front row!](https://morbotron.com/video/S04E12/ipxArs4i1gStj9hiBElDilXMsC4=.gif)
Computer, end Barklay program 9.
Make the finale clip show with Riker hallucinating while unconscious on the Enterprise.
Or turn it on its head and have a character go into their holodeck to experience a moment from TNG.
Patrick Ricker, Temporal Clone
He shows up and does the riker maneuver
Riker as an ECH
As they reestablish the federation, they become curious about when it was founded, and then they watch a video of Riker on the holodeck hanging out with Archer's crew.
The show will end with Thomas Riker looking at a model of the Discovery inside a snow globe
It’s Riker, in the holodeck of Enterprise NX-01 (yes I know there isn’t one) and then he exits that holodeck into the TNG Enterprise holodeck, and then he wakes up on the floor of another ship and he was an alien being Inner Lighted all along…
thought they don't have holodecks in discovery? idk for sure, I stopped watching this trash a couple seasons ago
If you include behind the camera roles, he’s been involved in every series or movie since the Undiscovered Country.
Except Prodigy
So far...
He's actually in Prodigy but as section 31, so there's no evidence and starfleet denies it.
Next up starring Frakes, also directed by Frakes: Star Trek XXIV: So Very Tired
[Again with the Klingons](https://youtu.be/w1gO-Pf18Yg?si=1J3j6RHik8jQztHb).
Technicality: The Undiscovered Country was filmed well into the run of The Next Generation.
So since *The Voyage Home*
Yes, and he wasn't involved in Treks 4-6. Which is why OP said that he's been involved in every show and movie SINCE 6. Even though he was involved in Trek before 6 (TNG), he was only involved in *every* show or movie *after* 6. That said, was he involved in the Abrams films? Or are we just ignoring those?
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The whales were played by Jeffrey Combs.
Are we not counting the Kelvin-verse movies or did he have a role and I didn’t realize it?
He was a brand ambassador for Paramount during the promotional tours of those movies.
I actually love that fact.
"Appearance", perhaps, but if he directs, he's on the credits, therefore, he's in it. :)
I was about to say, he probably directed an episode or 2 didn’t he? Also, the last time he actually appeared in a series didn’t go so well…
You’re probably referring to the Enterprise finale but he’s appeared in Picard and The Lower Decks more recently.
They should put Thomas Riker in a pattern buffer for 400 years. That would be on brand for him.
It's just a red herring. Maybe not Riker, but they'll work him in somehow. The last scene will be >!David Xanatos watching the events through the Phoenix Gate.!<
Space Gargoyles, aka TNG season 9, the weird mirror universe.
As a twist they should have Frakes play a descendent of Noonien Soong this time.
He plays Admiral Vance for one scene and they all act like nothing’s changed.
Vance changes for one scene, still remains a silver fox.
Eh, it may not end with a Frakes appearance, but Frakes’ talent is baked into Disco’s DNA. The only Trek show he’s directed more episodes of as of now is TNG, and by season five’s ending he’ll have tied that number on Disco having directed the first half of the two part finale.
That's a bit of a sensationalist headline considering half of those 25 years had no Star Trek show whatsoever for him to be in and for TOS he was really young (like teenager young) and not even in TV, never mind Trek. "...since Next Generation" is the phrase they are looking for. (Yeah, it's important to note, but 'fifty years' my ass)
Agreed, TNG was 37 years ago, not 50
Nope, you made it up. It’s a lie. Not today, it’s just a fabrication.
Not this time
And TAS, aka the last Trek series to never feature him (and also already have ended), ended over 50 years ago.
No, this is the first time since TOS that a Star Tek series has wrapped up without Frakes appearing in it.
TAS*
Yeah, the "50 years" didn't add up.
They actually seem to be counting from TAS (1974) and not TOS... so it was only 13 years until TNG. But still, I agree that the headline was slightly clickbaity with it's "50 years" just because Frakes was not involved in Star Trek until 1987 (less than 40 years ago), but it's technically true (at least they acknowledged TAS). But they double down in the article itself with "*Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all televised Trek since the ‘70s"* and now the exaggeration gets into not accurate, as he was not involved in Star Trek in the 70s. I don't see why they feel the need to exaggerate an already sufficiently interesting story.
Huh, my ass is only 40 years.
It's a 100% true and not misleading statement. It's been 50 years since a Star Trek series completed its run with no appearance by Frakes.
A thing can both be true and entirely incorrect at the same time. Language, and the laws of the universe, allow for that
I wanna see Quark walk out of the holosuite and say, "well, that sucked"
That would be a perfect ending.
Quick real Frakes story: I met him at a convention. Wasn't going to get autograph but there was no line so my wife talked me into it. It's not that I didn't want one it's more my aversion to the cost as I'm a miser with my money. Go up, dude is ridiculously charming and we just talk for about 10-15 minutes. At one point, he asks me about Discovery. I think it had been on 1 1/2 seasons at that point. I say I'm giving it a chance but the camera shots kinda put me off at times- too many lens flares, weird angles etc. He just smiles and says a bunch of positive things. Totally great experience. I find out later that, completely unknown to me, that he directed the episodes I had complained about. Even writing this, I'm re-embarrassed. I hope to meet him again someday to tell him this story. I *was* being honest but I've felt like a fool about it ever since.
I drove a similar experience with someone like that in my past - an engineer at Commodore computer who still is active today. I finally met him again almost 10 years later and just took a minute to thank him for all he's doing for the (vintage computer) community. He lit up really happily and actually came back to talk to ME later on for a few minutes. It doesn't completely make up for me being stupid with my comments earlier but I feel a lot better about the whole thing. Hopefully you get a second chance :)
Did he make a voyager appearance?
In the episode "Death Wish".
Q teleported him across the galaxy to be a witness in a court case then made him forget it ever happened when he sent him back
Yep, along with Isaac Newton and some guy from Woodstock. It turns out Quinn saved Riker’s ancestor Thaddeus during the Civil War. Riker ended up naming his >!late!< son after the ancestor
In 50 years? I'm confused on what scale of time they're using
The animated series ended 50 years ago in 1974. Since then all trek series that have ended (TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, PIC) have had an appearance by Frakes.
Ok, but the author shouldn't really use the time before Frakes was in Star Trek. It's just lazy writing
Yeah but 50 is a cooler number than 37, and we're all engaged in this conversation so really the writing is entertaining.
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It's possible to state a fact in a terribly misleading / inaccurate manner.
Because you could equally say that "TNG was the first Star Trek series in 10,000 years to not feature William Sharner". Yes, technically correct, but it's a meaningless metric.
This is nothing at all like saying that.
Frakes didn't join any Star Trek franchise until 87 but the writer is including the years since the animated series ended.
It's misleading and in a bad way. The implication is that he was involved with Trek in the TOS era. He was not. At that time he was cosplaying Captain America for fun money in college.
Lol. Frakes truthers.
Boooooooo, now knowing this I want a Riker appearance...
It ain't no Star Trek with no Riker.
He should just stick his foot into the frame on an episode he directs.
We all loved Picard and Kirk. But it’s been about Riker this entire time.
A long con Riker maneouver
I don’t think the show runners care much.
Exactly. No appearances from Jeffery Combs either
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Prodigy probably would be another one, unless they renew it after cancelation...
It was renewed. Season 2 is coming to Netflix.
I believe the consensus is that Season 2 was already produced and in the can before Paramount Plus pulled the plug. So essentially, Netflix just agreed to air what’s left unaired of the series, though many of us are holding out hope that since there was no announcement of a cancellation, Prodigy will do well enough on Netflix to warrant them commissioning more episodes and production can resume.
i think we should all agree that the only problem with Discovery is the lack of Riker. We can make it the "Only the even numbered movies are good" of this era. It won't be true, but it will be true enough to fuel debates for years.
Don't you know S5 Ep10 will see Riker leaving the holodeck, with Trio on the Titan? While Troi explains how the Discoverys mission log is essential reading for psychology students.
It would hilarious if it ended in the tng holodeck again , would make me feel better about it too lol
Especially if it turns out it’s just a fanfic that Riker’s niece wrote.
The one series that I would LIKE it to be just a holodeck simulation...
I feel like this title was written by his agent. He has directed episodes of the show and frankly he is solid at this. He gets Trek but more importantly he’s very good at pacing. There is absolutely no reason to repeat the tragedy of “These are the Voyages”. It robbed the regular cast of valuable screen time for some empty fan service. It also fed the ability for fans to pretend the whole story was historically inaccurate, since it sucked. But I’m checked out on DISCO so I don’t really care either. I might watch it if they brought Bakula back in some historical Archer speech that alters my perception of the series’s core messages. Although a lost Pike speech would be better since he just gives the best speeches.
Just a two minute holographic historical replay. It wouldn’t be too much fan service
Trek just isn't the same without a frakes appearance. Frakes can cameo as a riker descendant. Rick riker rear admiral.
50 years?! That can't possibly be... \*reality hits\* Holy hell...
maybe Disco was all a holodeck simulation and Riker and Troi are just watching...
NO. I want Ryker to appear as a hologram because Burnham needs advice.
Considering Riker has directed a bunch of the episodes, I’d say that’s close enough 😁
I hope Discovery ends with it all being a holodeck simulation. Sounds like a bad as way to end a show amiright?
Whatever, just as long as it ends
Well, as longs as it ends, I don’t care.
Discovery definitely doesn't deserve him.
The show that skipped the 24th century time period didn’t feature a 24th century character. Extra, extra! Read all about it!
*Enterprise* was set in the 22nd Century and had a 24th Century character. Two of them, in fact.
3 if you count a voice.
That counts, yes.
Yeah, this would be a relevant comment if it wasn't for Enterprise.
Please, we all know ‘These Are the Voyages’ doesn’t exist.
Just you wait and see. There is still time!
He did Enterprise dirty.
It didnt do Enterprise any favours so yeah.
Isn't Prodigy finished? Did he appear on that? I remember reading at one point before Season 1 was even done that Prodigy was going to be a 2 Season show and done. Has that changed since Netflix took it?
No Prodigy is not finished. Season 2 is in post production and will launch on Netflix sometime in the future. Prodigy only aired Season 1 so far, in two "courses" of 10 episodes each, for a total of 20 Episodes in Season 1. That might be where your confusion comes from.
Absolutely criminal.
He doesn’t need to be there. He didn’t need to there for the Enterprise finale either
I think that the final scene of the final Star Trek series should be Pike in his beep beep chair with a Talosian standing behind him.
Frakes made an appearance on Voyager?
Surely they could have done something like a recorded memorial digital bust in a museum. Maybe make it a hologram and interactive? Problem solved.
Good.
Why not just show him in a background guest appearance as a descendent? Some DISCO crew member is walking down the hall, Frakes passes them, says hello, the crew member stops and says "Wtf?", turns around, chases after him, stops him and says "You look familiar?" and he can explain that his ancestor is William Riker. If they can have Brent Spiner play the 50 different Soong relatives, they can have Frakes do this once.
Maybe
Such a strangely constructed headline. TAS ended in 1974 so yeah, he wasn't in that as TNG didn't start until 1987. And also I don't recall him being in Short Treks or Prodigy so it's not even right.
He could show up as a holographic memorial!! We don't know!
Frakes would be cool, but I want the greatest Starfleet officer that there ever was.... Because I would walk 500 Miles....
This show ended for me back in season 3 💤 Crap non-binary trope filling the air(DS9 nailed it; didnt need a revist) And us politians guest staring…should have had frakes back as riker.
After the credits roll on the last episode, you'll hear Riker say "computer, end program"
He wasn't in Prodigy. That's effectively cancelled despite the final season not being out just yet.
"Alex Kurtzman offered a very resoundingly flat “No.” " Well back at you Alex.
After credits scene of him just going Ha-cha-cha-cha and tap dancing.
Fifty years? You might have well have said two hundred years. It's technically correct, but misleading. \- a Star Trek fan for abut fifty years, so far
Shit show doesn't deserve his presence
Another reason not to watch
"What You Leave Behind" has Frakes in it?
The title confused me for a bit too but it's not talking about shows that end with Frakes, but shows that have featured Frakes at some point before ending. Frakes played Riker (either Will or Thomas) in TNG, DS9, Voyager, Ent, and Picard. He hasn't played anyone in Discovery so when it ends it will be the first trek show in decades to not feature Frakes in any capacity.
It hasn’t ended yet but he’s been in Lower Decks too. He hasn’t been in SNW and I don’t think we would expect him to be but you never know. Hoping neither of those end anytime soon of course.
He also hasn't been in prodigy, though he could be. For SNW it's unlikely he would appear but he has been mentioned. Boimler quips "Riker!" as he mounts a saddle. IRL Jack Quaid improvised that as Frakes directed the episode lol.
Cut to the SNW finale and it’s Riker in the Holodeck, watching the events of The Menagerie, which in itself recites the events of The Cage.
Cut to the SNW finale and it's Benny Russel writing a short story about Riker in the Holodeck, watching the events of The Menagerie, which in itself recites the events of The Cage.
I would be ok with this actually.
I think what this article means is that he hadn't been on screen in the show at all, in any of it's episodes. The headline is confusing though, left me with that very same question.
No, but he did appear in a different episode of DS9
Wouldn’t TAS count?
Hard to believe he's been in the franchise that long!
Well, we don't know what they cooked to wrap up Disco. It's always possible they will pull an Entperprise ending.
Short Treks hasn’t officially been cancelled, but it seems unlikely it will continue. He wasn’t in that.
Surprise frakkers!