Riker's attitude

[Lt. Tyler]

Something I noticed all these years and I am now re-watching Star Trek: TNG series. What's up with Riker's attitude??? Like he changes greatly over the years as First Officer. For example, during season 1 he is all happy and smiling all the time and very down to earth. Then as we get into the later seasons he is always pissed off and asking everyone if they got a problem and such. Why the big change in his character??? He goes from being everyones friend to having this big chip on his shoulders and got all bitchy. Anyone else know what I mean??

 

[Finn]

First of all, as the first officer, he shouldn't be everyone's friend. Second, he was still fairly green. He wasn't the first officer of the Hood that long. I honestly like Riker in the latter seasons better.

 

[Kor]

It's character development.

I think plenty of people in real life start out friendly and eager, but become realists as the years go by and they have to deal with the real world on an everyday basis.

Kor

 

[urbandefault]

Picard. Just. Won't. RETIRE!

 

[Lt. Tyler]

First of all, as the first officer, he shouldn't be everyone's friend. Second, he was still fairly green. He wasn't the first officer of the Hood that long. I honestly like Riker in the latter seasons better.

Yeah OK. He was friendly with everyone.

 

[Ghrakh]

Beard?

 

[HIjol]

Picard. Just. Won't. RETIRE!

THERE. ARE. FOUR. PIPS !!!

 

[Scotchy]

But through it all he makes certain to fornicate with every alien that sets foot on the Enterprise. He's the Glen Quagmire of Star Trek.

 

[Paradise City]

Riker gets grumpier as Picard lightens up.

Picard was very cranky in the first two seasons but is crackin' jokes and having a whale of a time by the time season 7 comes around.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

during season 1 he is all happy and smiling all the time and very down to earth.

So is everybody else, really. That's when Gene's utopian happy-happy-joy-joy "Nobody should ever have any conflict with anyone else" was really taking hold.

First of all, as the first officer, he shouldn't be everyone's friend.

Quite right. Saul Tigh said it best: "If the crew doesn't hate the XO, he's not doing his job."

 

[USS Firefly]

In my opinion he was really an ass in Chain of command

 

[Granola Gwen]

I think his more realist attitude fits better with the show, that's not to say that he doesn't still has his goofball/happy moments (which isn't a bad thing).

 

[Lt. Tyler]

But through it all he makes certain to fornicate with every alien that sets foot on the Enterprise. He's the Glen Quagmire of Star Trek.

Yeah well, I never seen Riker smile so much than in the first half of the episode Justice. He couldn't wait to get down to the planet cause he knew he was going to get laid at the drop of a hat.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Riker was more of a horndog than Kirk, I'm fairly sure of that.

That being said, the greatest example of this is in "The Perfect Mate" when Riker barely escapes Kamala, and then he says "I'll be on the holodeck..."

 

[stardream]

I was never really a fan of Riker's. I liked him in individual episodes here and there but overalll...meh.

 

[Balok's Head]

I always thought he was much more stiff in the first season and lightened up later.

 

[keith2282]

I always thought he was much more stiff in the first season and lightened up later.

Yeah I thought the same thing myself.
I thought he lightened up for the most part. Its pretty normal for a person in command to get "bitchy" or mean when he is disciplining his crew, in my opinion.

 

[Paradise City]

Yeah, he's often chillin' and relaxin' and exchanging witty repartee at the poker table as the series progresses.

Why the mischievous cad can even be spotted chatting up whichever of Wolf's deputy babes is on duty at tactical.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Most of the time I don't mind his later no nonsense attitude though I did miss his playfulness.

He was way too often used as the judgemental intolerant one. Hollow Pursuits, Tin Man. He was the first one to pass judgment on anyone who didn't neatly fit the Starfleet mold.

Like, he judges Elbrun for not warning his crew forcefully enough to save them then he nearly gets his entire crew enslaved by a game because he let his guard down in the bedroom.

 

[JoeCabby]

Riker was more of a horndog than Kirk, I'm fairly sure of that.

That being said, the greatest example of this is in "The Perfect Mate" when Riker barely escapes Kamala, and then he says "I'll be on the holodeck..."

Naw, he was worse in Outcast with the androgynous being. Male, female, he doesn't care, whatever it is, he wants a piece of it.