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[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago
[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

If this gif wasn't in here I was gonna be upset!

I've considered growing a goatee and using stick on mutton chops to cosplay Thomas Riker at conventions.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I was waiting for this GIF too

If I ever see a Riker cosplayer ... I'll try removing their mutton chops .... (I'm joking, I'd never touch anyone's face for any reason)

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

When this episode first aired I was like ohhhhh snap!

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago
[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 23 points 1 week ago

Easy. Thomas is the exact same action figure but painted yellow, with the little tears on the uniform moulded into the figure still visible.

(Me, still bitter that I held this figure in Woolworth’s and passed on it because it was a shitty repaint)

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

One married Troi the other didn't

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Two Rikers at the same time. If I ever become a trillionaire, that's what I'm doing.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Luckily he was a different rank so they were never dressed the same.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Thomas wore commander pips and command red when he stole the Defiant.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

But we know this isn’t from that time.

The galaxy was going through a blurry low pixel phase when that happened, and this photo is crisp.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I heard of this thing called AI upscaling which I assume is Data redoing every pixel by hand. So really this photo could be from any stardate.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

There's no way even Data could be that fast. He would have to work 10x faster than a human ever could

[-] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You're telling me an android so advanced he can do this:

isn't at least ten times faster than a human. Look at that coordination!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah but that's because he was pretending. When he's not pretending he dresses like the gold shirt leftenant he is

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Luckily he was a different rank so they were never dressed the same.

Ooohhh, you just failed the Star Trek test. Do you even DS9, bro? /s

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Thomas is the one with stick-on sideburns.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Will always has a trombone on him at all times. It's why he sits like this

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Trick question.

Those are actually transporter twins #6 and #14, Darcy and Coltrane.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Easy, Will is the one drowning in pussy.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

The one that rips off his sideburns is Thomas

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

Thomas is the one in a Cardassian prison. I wonder how he's doing.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

In my headcanon Tom was rotting in a Cardassian prison cell when Cardassia finally turned on the Dominion on Cardassia Prime. A trained Star Fleet lieutenant is a powerful asset in a battle. Seeing the Dominion as a worse threat to the Maquis interests than Cardassia, Tom convinced his jailers to free him in exchange for him fighting to defend Cardassia. The combined Alpha Quadrant forces succeeded in defeating the Dominion. While Cardassians would have wanted to re-imprison Tom, the destruction and chaos was too great and Tom was able to slip away and make his way back to a rim colony that supported the Maquis.

The colonists, aware of the sacrifices Tom made to defend them hid and housed him. These colonies were far off the radar of the Federation at this point, so there was no one in power caring what they did, including if the Federation discovered Tom's whereabouts there. Tom had everything he could build a happy life with there, and a community that loved him. He could have lived there happily for the rest of his life...but that's just not the temperament of a Riker, so he left the safety and comfort of that work and once again threw himself into the fire for a cause..

...but that is another story.

The Federation got him out during the Dominion War and made him a captain according to the games. He's free in canon too. His name was on a list of Starfleet officers being taken into protective custody on an episode of Lower Decks.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, it's pretty obvious that the one on the left is.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago

That's our starship, comrade

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Simple. Thomas uses too much tongue.

[-] cattywampas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

One got promoted to Commander, the other didn't.

[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Thomas never wore that grey-shouldered uniform though.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It's the lil pasties

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