Johnathan Frakes
Johnathan Frakes
Jonathan Scott Frakesis an American actor, author, and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney...
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As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.
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It's a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.
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If it was a guest part, you'd only go in once and read for the producer and director, and you'd know the next day if you were going in to work.
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Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they'll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third season anyway.
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Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.
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In the theater, we were sort of happy to do what we could get.
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Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.
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I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.
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I was a psych major until I saw how much fun the actors were having, and I decided I'd transfer over to the theater arts department.
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No, I was a psychology major in college.
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I always was - and still am - somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.
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I don't think there's any reason to be an actor unless you feel deep in your soul that you have to be, because it's not a career that one can count on working in or making a living at.
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While we were on the WB we were certainly not the number one show.
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Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.