Trisha’s Link of the Day: Why Riker is the man

Posted on by Trisha Lynn

In full disclosure, I haven’t seen all of Star Trek: The Next Generation yet, but if/when I am able to cherry-pick which episodes I watch, “The Outcast” is high on my list, and artist Jess Fink explains why in this comic.

I was really blown away by the frankness of the dialog in this episode too. Apparently Jonathan Frakes pushed for them to hire a male actor to play Soren but the producers didn’t think TV was ready for dude-on-dude action.

I would pay good money to see that episode re-shot the “right” way, wouldn’t you?

Published by Trisha Lynn

Trisha L. Renken-Sebastian (aka "Trisha Lynn" is a jill-of-many-trades. A former editor of both Wizard: Anime Insider and Sequential Tart, she has also been the managing editor for Saucy Goose Press, a small independent publisher, and contributed to a 2009 episode of the public radio show “This American Life.” She currently lives on Vancouver Island in Canada where she bides her time until she can create her own socially responsible media empire.

2 thoughts on “Trisha’s Link of the Day: Why Riker is the man”

  2. Awesome strip! However, I am anal and geeky enough to mention that, in regards to what the author wrote after the comic, Star Trek was always about real human conflicts set in a science fiction world to make ideas far more palattable for people who don't want to be preached to, original series too, not just TNG.

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