#tom riker

[raykarr]

Thomas W. Riker: I need to take the Defiant into Cardassian space to expose their government and set myself apart as a Maquis and as more than the Riker everyone expects me to be.

Meanwhile, William T. Riker in the holodeck of the Enterprise:

Credit for the video

[stra-tek]

When you both select the same character in a fighting game

[writergeekrhw]

From your work in any Trek series, what is a character you wish you'd gotten to write more for, or a storyline you wish you could've built out more? Any little thing you wanted to develop but for some reason couldn't?

So... been buried in work, but I figured I should answer some of my backlog before the Bell Riots start.

I only got to write for Ezri once and Nikki is so great so i wish I'd been able to write more for her.

I wish we could have rescued poor Tom.

I really wish I'd been able to do the story for DS9 I turned into "Angel Dark, Demon Bright" for Andromeda.

[neopuff]

[trekkie-polls]

There are so so so so many more, I could really only fit a handful in. If your favorite star trek mystery is missing, please describe it in the tags!

Bonus points for sharing your thoughts on how you would finish the story :)

[exasperatedoctopus]

No officer you’re mistaken, I didn’t steal that spaceship. My 100% legal and also 100% accidental AU timeline clone of myself impersonated me to further his amoral schemes

[idiot-riker]

i relate to tom riker because i also went several years with zero human contact (studied remotely)

[slippery-domjot-balls]

It is a known fact that goatees make people chaotic.

Exhibit A: Fake Baby Riker Boy with taped cheek hairs. Not chaotic.

Remove taped cheek hairs and you have to deal with this:

But if you put the hairs back then Tom Riker will behave himself.

Next we have Exhibit B: Baseball Champ Man of Stardate 48371.5

If a rogue goatee were to symbiotically join Sisko's brains then add +1 to scheming ability, +2 to brooding, and more recipes in the DS9 cookbook.

[marymoss1971]

I'm wondering what happened to Thomas Riker. My headcanon is he escaped from the labor camp (per the excellent novel Imzadi II) then stayed on the lam.

He did desert Starfleet so I would think he'd be on the run from them. However, Lower Decks (set in 2371) seems to indicate that, while his whereabouts aren't known, he's not currently a fugitive.

[sshbpodcast]

Episode 172: Ending on an (Awkward) Kiss

DS9: "Defiant" and "Fascination"

Anything but romance is in the air this week on DS9, but it was the only link we had! First up, Riker drops by DS9 to make a pass at Kira...and steal the titular "Defiant"! After that, someone decided DS9 needed its own space crazies episode, but they went all TNG with it and decided it would just make everyone thirsty in "Fascination".

Also this week: is gout hot, the Siddig/Visitor timeline, and let us never speak of this again.

Timestamps: "Defiant", 1:36; "Fascination", 33:12

[tribblesoup]

This argument has aggravated me for years. I was already a fan of Allison, but I love her even more for finally drawing attention to how stupid this argument is.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

at some point, someone used the word 'womaniser' when they meant 'flirt,' and generations of Star Trek men haven't recovered

[aspiringnexu]

Love that Star Trek accurately portrays humans in the future as being DTF practically anything. Works wonders for diplomacy.

"Sure I don't find you attractive, but give me ten minutes, your Excellency, and I'll find someone on this ship who's into tentacles and slime."

We may not be super intelligent or super strong, but give humans a chance. We're annoyingly likeable, tenacious, stubborn, and attracted to the weirdest things.

[el-on-mars]

the r in Star Trek stands for rizz

A quick thing of the space flirt men because I love them all (that includes Paris idc what anyone says). Even if some of them (bashir) are actually horrible at flirting. Teehee

[old-type-40]

Here. Have a gif of the moment.

the thomas riker side burn reveal gets me every time

[kitkatt0430]

So Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant, huzzah! Party time.

And Starfleet does throw a big party in their honor to welcome back. Very formal, lots of ambassadors, a lot of the Voyager crew is quietly bored with it thirty minutes in. Where's the fun in fancy hors d’oeuvres if you can't play 'guess the mystery ingredients from the most recent trade agreement/away mission?'

Anyway, the crew of the Enterprise is there because they're in their post-Dominion War Flag Waving era. And of course, Picard is expecting a number of things from a typical Starfleet party of very fancy standards. What he was not expecting was Q and Q Jr. to show up in a flash of light or for Jr. to throw his arms around the shoe-in-to-be-Admiral Janeway and exclaim 'Aunt Kathy! You made it home, and early too. That was cheating!"

Janeway sends the teenage looking Q to go hang out with Icheb, the quiet part-borg kid who has been strategically hiding in a corner with access to punch bowl and the nibbles with the most easily identifiable ingredients. Icheb proceeds to perk up and calls Q Jr. Q-Ball. Jr. calls him Itchy. Seven of Nine, who has been quietly shadowing Icheb and scowling in such a way that she has one yard of clearance on all sides at all times, unless a Voyager crew member or her aunt come over to talk to her, turns a very narrow-eyed gaze on Jr that the young Q is clearly unsettled by. (If he gets Icheb hurt again, no power on this plane of existence could save Q Jr. from Seven and he knows it.)

Q and Janeway watch fondly, chatting about the whereabouts of Lady Q and how the Continuum is doing lately and Janeway occasionally shutting down Q's attempts to flirt with her. For whatever reason, Janeway still agrees to dance with Q and laughs when he changes the music with a snap to something they can waltz to.

Picard is trying to figure out if he can sidle out one of the exits before Q notices him. As is basically the rest of the Enterprise lead staff. Finding out that Q made Janeway godmother to his son is quite possibly the most surreal part of the evening for Picard and that includes when Q gets bored with the music a few waltzes later and turns the whole thing into a disco.

Meanwhile Riker learns he was actually brought to Voyager by Q once and then made to forget it and is thus considered an honorary Voyager crew member along with Barclay. Riker decides he's cool with that and helps plan the after party with Tom and Harry. (He also tries to talk Harry into starting a jazz band with him.)