An episode with two Rikers? Be still my heart. Its just too much goatee for one fan to handle.
So Riker discovers another Riker. Not a clone, but an actual Riker. The explanation as to how this happened is quite believable, it involves some kind of transporter screw up. I was concerned as to how dumb the "split screen" would look...it could easily look shitty like the Patty Duke Show or that episode of Full House when Uncle Jesse meets his evil Greek cousin Stavos. Anyway, it looked very believable, Burton did a good job directing and Frakes was fantastic.
The weird thing is that at the end I totally expected one Riker to die, because surely there can't be two Rikers existing in the Star Trek realm. Wrong, they both are still alive and living their own lives. Isn't that kind of crazy?
It's strange how nowadays TV shows seem to be a springboard to bigger things for most actors. But go back 20 years and it seemed like everyone was typecast. Frakes, Spiner and Stewart were all great actors on a hit TV series and it all lead to shit. Look Alf, what happened to his career when his series got cancelled??
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"or that episode of Full House when Uncle Jesse meets his evil Greek cousin Stavos."
I don't know enough about Full House to know if that was a joke or not.
And this was a fun episode. Come on! Two Rikers for the price of one! One weird thing is how at the end (SPOILER?), Tom Riker gets a position on some other ship. Huh? Hasn't this guy basically been marooned alone for a decade? Wouldn't he have some psychological damage or something? At the very least, shouldn't he get some refresher training or something?
Hahaha right? The end makes absolutely no sense!
So Stavos was Jesse's evil cousin ... and it was just John Stamos wearing a fake mustache.
Did that actually happen?
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