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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds
I'll take The Wrath of Kaan over any one series in its entirety.
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Like the Khan story in the original Trek series, both are largely carried by Khan (Ricardo Montalban) and are nothing special.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
My god that was an amazing episode wasn't it? "There are FOUR lights!" Warner is in a class all of his own.
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It's a story that pops into my mind quite often, even though I haven't seen it in years.
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
I think the writers wrote Riker like that in the beginning to beg the question: "will he become a commander?" I guess they were thinking that if you had second in command always vying for power it would provide tension, and that friction would propel the arc of the story a bit. At first that type they think could be interesting but might feel they should move away from it, because it doesn't work. There could be different reasons why writers changed things around, they could've change the character in guise of maturing, but really did it because of fan input, or maybe after a while something like that just gets old.
I remember Jonathan Frakes saying that he always worried at the end of the season whether or not they will bring his character back for the next season.
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The whole idea of Riker was to originally replicate the character of Kirk, as it was seen as being unlikely that a ship's captain would beam down to lead dangerous missions. So Picard was created to be a realistic captain whilst Riker would take the old Kirk role. Problem was that Riker was such a cardboard character, lousy actor and did well not to get written out of the series.