Picard’s last season wrapped up earlier this yr with a fond farewell to the solid of The Subsequent Technology, however that hasn’t stopped audiences—or the solid themselves—pondering what ever might be subsequent. Now it’s the flip of Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes, to think about what may be subsequent for him and his Imzadi.
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Picard’s third season ended with a second of therapeutic for the rocky marriage between Riker and Deanna Troi, with lingering trauma from the loss of life of their son having pushed them aside. However now they’re reunited, the galaxy is saved, and Deanna can plan all the vacations she desires, Frakes is pondering a special future for William T. Riker.
“In my thoughts, for the present to have the ability to transfer ahead, Riker must be a captain and have his ship, or he can be promoted to admiral and be a liaison,” Frakes just lately advised the official Star Trek journal, Explorer. “I’m solely half-kidding after I say it will be nice for me if the present carries on and I’m like Charlie from Charlie’s Angels. They’d have to return to my workplace in the future per week for a gathering with Riker. That’d be excellent. Then I may direct a bunch of the episodes and be across the present.”
That basically is the rub for Frakes—who has change into one in every of modern Trek’s most prolific administrators, throughout not simply episodes of Picard and Discovery, and extra just lately Unusual New Worlds, the place he helmed the sequence’ Decrease Decks crossover. Any position Riker may have in no matter post-Picard future Paramount has in thoughts would, in keeping with the actor-director, need to be the passing of the torch relatively than one thing with him within the highlight.
“I think if it does go ahead, it will be Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, and Ed Speelers, who’s now in Starfleet, and Mica Burton and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, who performed Geordi’s daughter. I might additionally think about Lulu Wilson, who performed the Rikers’ daughter in season one and was so fabulous, might be part of it. She may come again and possibly be in Starfleet,” Frakes mused.
“It feels to me like there’s an actual alternative for 3 of the legacy characters’ youngsters to hold on and form of be the following Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology. It simply feels prefer it’s laid on the market. It’s the blueprint for the following part.”
Now if solely somebody at Paramount would learn that blueprint!
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