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how am i supposed to go to work when im literally thinking about The Character

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AMEN! 🔥

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You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.

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Man, I love you people. Like, so much.

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"You can't make friends onli-" I would defend any of my Tumblr mutuals to the death with only a pocket knife and random rock, you heathen.

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sometimes life is awful and then you get to hold a baby and everything’s okay again

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Psalm 118:24 says, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it”.

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REMINDER: Anyone who wants to hear God's voice must be a student of His Word. Of all the other ways that God may speak to us... He will never go against His written Word.

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get loved some more, nerd

signed, get-loved-nerd’s apprentice :3

🥹🥹thanks I really needed this today. U get loved too

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Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. —Lamentations 3:22-23

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I feel like Riker gets a bit of a hard time in the fandom. I also feel that it's unjustified, given how he's actually portrayed in canon.

In a lot of ways, he suffers from having a very similar reputation to Kirk. He's seen as being the womanising rule breaker of the Enterprise-D, both by the fandom at large and occasionally even by the writers themselves. Much like Kirk's reputation, Riker's reputation as a reckless, womanising rule breaker is hugely overstated, though.

During Encounter At Farpoint, Picard asks him about an incident that happened during his previous assignment where he'd prevented his captain from going on an away mission. When Picard says to him, "So a captain's rank means nothing to you, then?", Riker's response--and this is a direct quote--was, "Quite the reverse, sir. But a captain's life means a great deal more to me."

This ended up being a pivotal scene for Riker's characterisation evermore. While he did have some lines that he wouldn't cross, he really was willing to follow any order given to him.

In some ways, Riker was the XO who was the most concerned with adherence to procedure. In Conundrum, we get a scene early on where Riker is chewing out Ro for changing a navigation thing without clearing it through the chain of command first, for example. While no doubt things like this do happen with the other XOs, it's not often that you get an episode that starts out that way.

His adherence to protocol was so strong that he was willing to follow an order he had personal reservations over even decades later, provided Federation security was at stake. This is a tendency we see in Pegasus, where Riker kept his mouth shut about what was actually going on onboard that ship until the safety of the ship became an issue.

So Riker's ability to follow orders and procedure isn't an issue in canon. If anything, he's probably one of the most rule-abiding officers in canon to date. Much like how his reputation for recklessness is overstated, so is his tendency to be a womaniser.

The exact nature of his reputation is that he'll go date pretty much anyone under his command. However, this really isn't a given. The only times he's ever actually confirmed to have had sex with anyone under his command is in Conundrum, when he had sex with Ro while under an alien influence, and in Insurrection, where he rekindles his relationship with Troi, who he'd been in a relationship with decades prior. While his new relationship with Troi did lead to them getting married, he's obviously deeply embarrassed about having slept with Ro in Conundrum.

While there are times where he's appeared to be flirtatious with junior officers, there's two things to keep in mind here. One is that they appear to be into it, so he does respect their boundaries. The other is that this could easily be just how mixed-gender friendships look like with Riker. For all of TNG's run, he has that kinda flirty style friendship with Troi for example, but he's never known to have hooked up with her. In fact, it's unlikely to have ever happened, given that Troi treats kissing him with a beard as a weird feeling in Insurrection.

Another thing I'll add here is that in Firstborn, it's mentioned that he'd gamed at Quark's with Jadzia. It's implied that they got on fairly well too, given they played multiple games. In my mind, this adds credibility to the idea that Riker would prefer a somewhat flirtatious dynamic at times in his mixed-gender friendships because that's something Jadzia would have enjoyed, too.

So a lot of the time when he's mentioned to have a date with a junior officer, it could easily just that he's meeting her as a friend or that he's doing some skills coaching with them. Saying it's a date could just be an ongoing joke, or people not fully grasping the level of Riker's professionalism.

Really, most of the people he's canonically known to have had a sexual encounter with are people that aren't in Starfleet. This includes people like Etana from The Game, Soren from The Outcast, and the Malcorian woman from First Contact (the episode, not the movie).

Plus, if he was such a womaniser as his fanon reputation holds, you'd expect for him to have several friends with benefits onboard the Enterprise. He could just wait for one of them to knock off duty instead of using the holodeck to satisfy his urges, as it's implied he did at one point in The Perfect Mate.

So in conclusion, Riker isn't reckless and he isn't a total fuck boy. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, yo.