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Riker's awkward poses/stances

This is pretty funny:

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Where can I buy this shirt!?
 
It isn't really a "pose" but there is a Riker move in the episode "Legacy" that always makes me LOL. Its when they are down in the tunnels and he pivots rapidly, swings his whole arm around and shoots that guard with the phaser and the guy goes flying like 10 feet backward. Its such an over acted move but its hilarious.
Riker and Picard do a similar weird dramatic ballerina stance when they fire phasers in the hallway in "Conspiracy."
 
Riker and Picard do a similar weird dramatic ballerina stance when they fire phasers in the hallway in "Conspiracy."

There are actually two instances I can think of off the top of my head when Riker shoots someone and its pretty funny. The one I mentioned in Legacy and the other is in "Future Imperfect" when he is in the fake Romulan camp and they escape from the holding cell and are trying to get to the "secret hiding place". I think its the first guard he shoots with the stolen disrupter. That one makes me LOL too.
 
Standing to the left of Data would upstage the extra in a very unprofessional camera angle.
The extra's face/ body would be obliterated by either, Riker's crotch or his ass.

Bad photography either way.
I think is shots are due to his height, for angles that look good on screen, and not to upstage others.

That's not an extra...
 
One thing I noticed at the end of Conundrum. Considering Frakes' back injury and the way he usually sits by swinging his leg over the back of the chair... when he goes over to Troi and Ro, he sits down normally, however there is an audible grunt and I wonder if for the character, it's because of the awkward conversation he's about to have, but for the actor it was due to the pain of the injury.
 
Say what you will... but were it not for the Riker maneuver on Data's console, they may never have gotten out of the temporal causality loop in "Cause & Effect". Who's laughing now?
 
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