{"id":12342,"date":"2011-06-20T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:36:14","slug":"frakes-attached-to-riker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/06\/frakes-attached-to-riker\/","title":{"rendered":"Frakes: Attached to Riker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last week&#8217;s Calgary Comic Con, the fan-friendly <strong>Jonathan Frakes<\/strong> spoke about his work on <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and about his attachment to Commander William T. Riker.<\/p>\n<p>Frakes acknowledged the importance of the fans who supported <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and its actors. &#8220;My position is if someone&#8217;s not going to enjoy being [at the convention], they shouldn&#8217;t show up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen people come to these and not realize that they were lucky to have these fans and we have a responsibility to thank them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Frakes150-091310.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12343\" title=\"Frakes150-091310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Frakes150-091310.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Working on Trek was a blessing for Frakes, although it had its downside as well. &#8220;It changed my life,&#8221; he said. &#8220;How could I not be [a fan of <em>Star Trek<\/em>]? It&#8217;s a double-edged sword working in <em>Star Trek<\/em>, though. There&#8217;s not many acting jobs unless you&#8217;re <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, but I was lucky enough to find another craft in directing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frakes would take on the role of Riker again if asked, and would prefer not to be replaced if a rebooted <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> was done. &#8220;Gosh. I supposed I could be made younger,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I plan to play Riker as long as I&#8217;m alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last week&#8217;s Calgary Comic Con, the fan-friendly Jonathan Frakes spoke about his work on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2430,2433],"class_list":["post-12342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-frakes","tag-riker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"12","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12344,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12342\/revisions\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}