Picard’s closing season wrapped up earlier this yr with a fond farewell to the solid of The Subsequent Era, however that hasn’t stopped audiences—or the solid themselves—pondering what ever could possibly be subsequent. Now it’s the flip of Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes, to think about what is likely to be subsequent for him and his Imzadi.
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 needs, Frakes is pondering a unique 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 informed the official Star Trek journal, Explorer. “I’m solely half-kidding after I say it might be nice for me if the present carries on and I’m like Charlie from Charlie’s Angels. They’d have to come back to my workplace at some point every week for a gathering with Riker. That’d be excellent. Then I might direct a bunch of the episodes and be across the present.”
That actually is the rub for Frakes—who has turn out to be certainly one 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 collection’ Decrease Decks crossover. Any function Riker might have in no matter post-Picard future Paramount has in thoughts would, based on the actor-director, need to be the passing of the torch quite than one thing with him within the highlight.
“I believe if it does go ahead, it might 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, could possibly be part of it. She might come again and perhaps 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 type of be the subsequent Star Trek: The Subsequent Era. It simply feels prefer it’s laid on the market. It’s the blueprint for the subsequent part.”
Now if solely somebody at Paramount would learn that blueprint!
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