RIKER

It may be 15 years since he last played Will Riker, but Jonathan Frakes has been involved in Star Trek ever since it returned to the small screen in 2017, directing episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Now, with Star Trek: Picard, he’s both directing and acting, helming two episodes of the first season and reprising the role that first brought him fame.

Jonathan Frakes was there. He heard it from the man himself. And yet he still didn’t quite believe that he’d be involved in any way, shape, or form. Back in 2018, at the annual Star Trek Las Vegas gathering, Sir Patrick Stewart shocked the 6,000-plus fans in the room – and the world at large – by announcing that he’d be reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard for a new show that we now know to be Star Trek: Picard. Stewart even informed Frakes – his longtime friend, Number One to his Picard, and his frequent director – that he wanted him to direct the show; and though fans everywhere clamored for Stewart’s Star Trek: The Next Generation co-stars to join him on Picard, Frakes didn’t place bets on that…

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