Trying to recall an episode with a specific Riker scene...

[Ragitsu]

Good evening.

This probably doesn't reflect well on my geek status, but, for all the brain-racking I've done, I can't remember the name of an episode with an odd scene. I remember Riker looking absolutely terrified while wearing some kind of pajamas (not his duty uniform) and running down what I'm mostly positive is an Enterprise-D corridor. Did this happen? If so, what is the episode?

 

[DonIago]

"Schisms" or "Night Terrors", perhaps?

 

[NCC-73515]

Frame of Mind

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[Finn]

I don't think Riker was running around in his pajamas in Night Terrors (his nightmare was in main engineering, in full uniform).

Riker was more freaked out in Frame of Mind. I'd go with this one, as Riker was just sleepy and walking calmly in Schisms.

 

[DonIago]

Honestly, I'm so used to threads of this nature involving scenes that are being remembered imperfectly that I was just going for episodes that might have had something similar. Mostly Riker in his PJs and terrified.

 

[Jedman67]

Frame of Mind for sure. I can even picture the scene in my mind now

 

[shapeshifter]

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Fun psychological thriller!

 

[Ragitsu]

Thanks for the help, fellows! Gosh...some of these episodes run/blend together because of their thematic similarities. I apparently was also thinking of Night Terrors, Violations and Schisms, because they (along with Frame of Mind ) all depict various nightmarish sequences featuring Jonathan Frakes.

 

[Ragitsu]

(his nightmare was in main engineering, in full uniform).

Wasn't that Violations?

 

[Finn]

Wasn't that Violations?

Dang it. You are right

I'll turn in my TNG fan card.

 

[Ragitsu]

Dang it. You are right

I'll turn in my TNG fan card.

By the way, was that incident (where Riker has to order Engineering sealed in spite of the fact that it will result in someone's death) based on an episode we know about or was it a recollection of an unseen adventure?

 

[Finn]

Unseen adventure

 

[Vger23]

Riker is the man...regardless of his occasionally ill-advised attire.

 

[DonIago]

Unseen adventure

I always wanted to know what the circumstances of that were supposed to be and where Geordi was at the time. There's multiple plausible explanations for why Geordi isn't present, but it was just such a weird choice for a nightmare sequence featuring Will. It almost reads as though they intended for it to feature Geordi and then changed their minds but didn't rewrite the sequence accordingly.

 

[Ragitsu]

I always wanted to know what the circumstances of that were supposed to be and where Geordi was at the time. There's multiple plausible explanations for why Geordi isn't present, but it was just such a weird choice for a nightmare sequence featuring Will. It almost reads as though they intended for it to feature Geordi and then changed their minds but didn't rewrite the sequence accordingly.

Also: was it the inspiration for the Bridge Commander's test that Riker required Deanna to pass?

 

[DonIago]

Ugh, that was such a stupid test.

"If you want to be a commander, you have to be willing to order a non-sentient holographic simulation of someone to their death. It's a doozy!"

 

[Ragitsu]

Ugh, that was such a stupid test.

"If you want to be a commander, you have to be willing to order a non-sentient holographic simulation of someone to their death. It's a doozy!"

Well, they only have so many Geordis, you know...

 

[Mojochi]

I'd think the true test of command would be to NOT send your chief engineer in there before asking if someone else who isn't as important could ALSO go in there & do it instead.

 

[Ragitsu]

RIKER: Just human nature, Data.

DATA: Human nature, sir?

RIKER: We feel a loss more intensely when it's a friend.

DATA: But should not the feelings run as deep regardless of who has died?

RIKER: Maybe they should, Data. Maybe if we felt the loss of any life as keenly as we felt the death of those close to us, human history would be a lot less bloody.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

"Frame of Mind." Riker is a patient in an alien mental hospital, and keeps flashing back to the Enterprise, and doesn't know what's real.

But, that clip is also used in a wonderful fan edit on YouTube, called "Data's Cat Terrorizes Riker." XDDD