In a cutaway of Star Trek: The Next Generation, actors Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn reprised their roles of Captain Picard, Commander Riker, and Lt.

Dorn is also one of six actors ( the other actors being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, George Takei, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett ) to lend his voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising his role of Lieutenant Commander Worf.

Roddenberry's favourite for Riker was Jonathan Frakes, who went through seven auditions before claiming the role.

He was the second choice actor overall, but after the first choice failed to impress in both his auditions, Frakes claimed the role.

Combs originally auditioned for the role of Commander William Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but lost out to Jonathan Frakes, though producers kept him in mind for casting in the later series.

Campbell was the second choice of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation to play the role of William Riker, but lost the role to Jonathan Frakes.

Imzadi was read by Jonathan Frakes ( the actor who played Riker ), and Imzadi II by Robert O ' Reilly ( whose recurring onscreen role was the Klingon Gowron ).

Jonathan Frakes contributes to the game by reprising his role as William Riker and narrating the beginning of the videotape via log entry.

* Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films.

Frakes would occasionally perform on the trombone during his tenure as Commander Riker, drawing on his college marching band experience.

* Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker

Director Jonathan Frakes returned to helm his second Trek film and co-star as Commander Riker, Patrick Stewart also did double duty as Captain Picard and associate producer.

In 1992, the episode titled " The Outcast " is a story in which Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) falls in love with Soren, a member of the J ' naii androgynous humanoid race that views the expression of gender, especially sexual liaisons, as a sexual perversion.

* The episode was directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also portrayed Commander William Riker.

The episode featured guest appearances by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters William Riker and Deanna Troi.

Other Enterprise crewmembers include the ship's first officer William Riker, played by director Jonathan Frakes.

Captains: Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ), Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox )

Captain: Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes )

Captain William Thomas Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Frakes went to seven auditions over six weeks before being cast as Riker.

Frakes had grown a mustache and beard between seasons, and Gene Roddenberry asked him to keep it, because he thought it made Riker look more dignified.

Frakes appeared in dual roles in " Second Chances ", a TNG episode in which it was established that Riker had a " twin " created years earlier by a transporter malfunction.

Frakes appeared as the twin, Thomas Riker, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Defiant ", in which he impersonates the other Riker to commandeer the starship Defiant as a member of the Maquis.

The voice cast featured several actors who are alumni of the Star Trek franchise including Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes ( respectively, Deanna Troi and William Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation ), who were featured regularly as principal cast members.

William Thomas " Tom " Riker is a fictional character from the Star Trek universe, played by actor Jonathan Frakes.

He is a duplicate of William Riker, a regular character on Star Trek: The Next Generation, also played by Frakes, who was created by a transporter accident when Riker served as second officer aboard the USS Potemkin.

* Riker also gains his mustache and beard in this episode ; after Jonathan Frakes returned for filming having grown it, he had intended to shave it off for the new season.

It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):

Frakes is one of only two Star Trek regulars to appear on four different Star Trek series ( Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise ).

Frakes felt that having all the J ' naii played by female actors undermined the social commentary of the episode and created a sense that homosexuality was something brought onto the Enterprise by fascist lesbians.

Frakes said he did not have much difficulty directing and acting at the same time, having done so on the television series.

Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his alternating stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales.

When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.

Additionally, Frakes was an executive producer for the WB series Roswell, directed several episodes and guest-starred in three episodes.

Frakes hosted Paranormal Borderline, a television series at Fox, which dealt with the paranormal and mysterious happenings and creatures.

In February 2009 he played William Quint in " The Juror # 6 Job ", an episode of the drama series Leverage directed by his Next Generation co-star Jonathan Frakes.

Genie met actor / director Jonathan Frakes while filming the television series, Bare Essence.

Soren was played by actress Melinda Culea, and all of the main J ' naii characters were played by females, a creative decision criticized by Frakes, who felt that Soren should have been played by a male, so that when their characters kissed, it would have had the social commentary akin to the original Star Trek series that aired the first interracial kiss between fictional characters on U. S. network television.

The series was hosted by James Brolin in season one and later by Jonathan Frakes for the remainder of the series.

The episode features guest performances from Gary Cole, Michael Dorn, Susana Esteban, Jonathan Frakes, Rachael MacFarlane, Patrick Stewart, Fred Tatasciore, Gabrielle Union, Wally Wingert, and James Woods, along with several recurring voice actors for the series.