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Well this is the best I could do - it doesn't have his face on it, someone who's better at photoshopping will have to do that part.
Sometimes the simplest method is the best. I love it.
Riker's a dick
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Sometimes the simplest method is the best. I love it.
Thank you. 
Yeah, Saul Tigh said as much in nuBSG. "If the crew doesn't hate the XO, he's not doing his job."
He doesn't really have to be hated, but it's a good point. He's there to run the day to day operations and make sure those operations are in line with the Captain's wishes, not to be everybody's best friend (Which of course is the reason his relationship with Jellico in retrospect goes "clunk" with so many people)
By the way, there is a wonderful passage in the classic "Two Years Before the Mast" where Richard Henry Dana describes the command structure of a ship and it should ring a bell. I don't have the book in front of me, but basically, the Captain should be seen, not heard and the "Mate" (or 1st Mate of a civilian ship) should be his voice and presence. Conversely, the Captain does well to stay out of the Mate's business because meddling in day to day affairs gives the appearance that the Captain thinks the Mate is no sailor. Not a good state of affairs. There's actually an amusing passage where the Captain of one ship sticks his nose in once too often and the Mate threatened to kick his ass. The Captain realized he was out of line (and that the Mate was a better sailor anyway) and finally went back to his room. A wonderful read about how ships work to this day, even though it was written in the 1830s...
To the tune of Kyle's Mom's a Bitch:
Weeeeelllllllllllllllllllll
Riker's a dick
He's a big fat dick
He's a biggest dick in the whole wide world
He's a stupid dick
If there ever was a dick
He's a dick to all the boys and girls.
On Monday he's a dick
on Tuesday he's a dick
on Wednesday through Saturday he's a dick
then on Sunday just to be different he's a super king kamaya-maya dee-aackh!
Come on you all know the words!
Have you ever met Commander Riker?
He's the biggest dick in the whole wide world
He's a mean old dick and he has a stupid beard
He's a dick dick dick dick dick dick dick!
Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick! He's a stupid dick!
Commander Riker's a dick and he's just a dirty dick!
Mod's please be kind, but it just came to me when I first saw the thread title, and I couldn't hold it in anymore.
Weeeeelllllllllllllllllllll
Riker's a dick
He's a big fat dick
He's a biggest dick in the whole wide world
He's a stupid dick
If there ever was a dick
He's a dick to all the boys and girls.
On Monday he's a dick
on Tuesday he's a dick
on Wednesday through Saturday he's a dick
then on Sunday just to be different he's a super king kamaya-maya dee-aackh!
Come on you all know the words!
Have you ever met Commander Riker?
He's the biggest dick in the whole wide world
He's a mean old dick and he has a stupid beard
He's a dick dick dick dick dick dick dick!
Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick! He's a stupid dick!
Commander Riker's a dick and he's just a dirty dick!
Mod's please be kind, but it just came to me when I first saw the thread title, and I couldn't hold it in anymore.
This!
He actually took time to get to know the junior officers and crewman, remember "Lower Decks"? He was actually on first name basis with the Ten Forward Waiter and often played Poker with him as well
For the most part Riker was an easy-going, likeable enough guy, but to borrow from Q, "Riker, you're so stolid. You weren't like this before the beard!"
Riker had his moments of extreme dickishness but this usualy involved extreme cicrcumstances. His rteactions to our first episode with Barcalay is a nice example of this, where Riker is just a complete asshole to Barcaly. (I suppose with a degree or two of reason.)
As for Riker's interactions with "himself", I doubt anyone would deal well with another version of "themself" and what he would represent as far as choices you could've made. Sort-of like Picard's interaction with Shinzon and as Shinzon said, if Picard were in his position and Shinzon in Picard's they'd be doing the exact same thing as they were the exact same person just raised differently.
So Riker saw in "Tom Riker" the things he didn't like about himself and the regrets he had, esp. since "Tom" had yet to decide to forgo his love for Deanna in favor of career.
Keep in mind that Ten-Forward waiter was a civilian (i.e. not a SF Officer) so Riker and him could interact on the "same level" but Riker's interaction with the male junior officer in that episode was very different.
Riker had his moments of extreme dickishness but this usualy involved extreme cicrcumstances. His rteactions to our first episode with Barcalay is a nice example of this, where Riker is just a complete asshole to Barcaly. (I suppose with a degree or two of reason.)
As for Riker's interactions with "himself", I doubt anyone would deal well with another version of "themself" and what he would represent as far as choices you could've made. Sort-of like Picard's interaction with Shinzon and as Shinzon said, if Picard were in his position and Shinzon in Picard's they'd be doing the exact same thing as they were the exact same person just raised differently.
So Riker saw in "Tom Riker" the things he didn't like about himself and the regrets he had, esp. since "Tom" had yet to decide to forgo his love for Deanna in favor of career.
Keep in mind that Ten-Forward waiter was a civilian (i.e. not a SF Officer) so Riker and him could interact on the "same level" but Riker's interaction with the male junior officer in that episode was very different.
I agree. I don't like Riker. I like Jonathan Frakes. But Riker is easily my least favorite, main cast, well written Trek character. He has moments where I like him, but they're rare. I mostly find him obnoxious. And when he dies in 'Yesterday's Enterprise', I smile (which kind of makes me a dick too, but I'm ok with that). But I think the show kind of needed a character like him...so I usually don't complain about him. To me he's just as an important piece of the crew as any other character on the Enterprise, so while I don't like him that much, I"m glad he exists.
I got that far before busting up laughing. And then I sang along.
Well-played, sir.-k7, who likes Riker just fine, but still thinks that was hilarious.
I'm 41. How much older do I need to get?
I'm 41. How much older do I need to get?
Eh, you're probably at that point where the effect reverses itself.
With age and discipline that'll get better and easier to do.
I'm 41. How much older do I need to get?
Eh, you're probably at that point where the effect reverses itself.
Woo Hoo!
I'm 41. How much older do I need to get?
Hard to say, it all Depends.
With age and discipline that'll get better and easier to do.
I'm 41. How much older do I need to get?
Hard to say, it all Depends.
Now, now. It was just a joke. I can make cracks like that. I'm 43, so I'm a couple of years closer to that nightmare than you probably are.
Now, now. It was just a joke. I can make cracks like that. I'm 43, so I'm a couple of years closer to that nightmare than you probably are.
Here's to wearing pants above the belly button; where staying up past 8 is late, waking up is the time we used to go to bed, chasing kids off the lawn, not understanding new music, when kids marvel at the fact we saw Star Wars at the theater. Remembering when there were only 3 channels on your TV and 4 only when PBS came through, you couldn't screen your calls, having a long phone cord was the only way to get privacy on the phone, McDonald's only had millions served, football was only on Sunday and Monday nights I could go on.
Now, now. It was just a joke. I can make cracks like that. I'm 43, so I'm a couple of years closer to that nightmare than you probably are.
Here's to wearing pants above the belly button; where staying up past 8 is late, waking up is the time we used to go to bed, chasing kids off the lawn, not understanding new music, when kids marvel at the fact we saw Star Wars at the theater. Remembering when there were only 3 channels on your TV and 4 only when PBS came through, you couldn't screen your calls, having a long phone cord was the only way to get privacy on the phone, McDonald's only had millions served, football was only on Sunday and Monday nights I could go on.
That just made my day!
But I'm going to have to put all of that on hold for a while longer. I'm still using the Peter Pan life plan. Never grow up, never get old. Now if the damn white hairs would just stop sneeking onto my temples.
Now, now. It was just a joke. I can make cracks like that. I'm 43, so I'm a couple of years closer to that nightmare than you probably are.
Here's to wearing pants above the belly button; where staying up past 8 is late, waking up is the time we used to go to bed, chasing kids off the lawn, not understanding new music, when kids marvel at the fact we saw Star Wars at the theater. Remembering when there were only 3 channels on your TV and 4 only when PBS came through, you couldn't screen your calls, having a long phone cord was the only way to get privacy on the phone, McDonald's only had millions served, football was only on Sunday and Monday nights I could go on.
That just made my day!
But I'm going to have to put all of that on hold for a while longer. I'm still using the Peter Pan life plan. Never grow up, never get old. Now if the damn white hairs would just stop sneeking onto my temples.
Mine stopped sneaking and are starting to wage a full scale war.
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