• Blackout
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    72 months ago

    Will always has a trombone on him at all times. It’s why he sits like this

  • Melllvar
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    62 months ago

    Thomas is the one in a Cardassian prison. I wonder how he’s doing.

    • partial_accumen
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      82 months ago

      In my headcanon Tom was rotting in a Cardassian prison cell when Cardassia finally turned on the Dominion on Cardassia Prime. A trained Star Fleet lieutenant is a powerful asset in a battle. Seeing the Dominion as a worse threat to the Maquis interests than Cardassia, Tom convinced his jailers to free him in exchange for him fighting to defend Cardassia. The combined Alpha Quadrant forces succeeded in defeating the Dominion. While Cardassians would have wanted to re-imprison Tom, the destruction and chaos was too great and Tom was able to slip away and make his way back to a rim colony that supported the Maquis.

      The colonists, aware of the sacrifices Tom made to defend them hid and housed him. These colonies were far off the radar of the Federation at this point, so there was no one in power caring what they did, including if the Federation discovered Tom’s whereabouts there. Tom had everything he could build a happy life with there, and a community that loved him. He could have lived there happily for the rest of his life…but that’s just not the temperament of a Riker, so he left the safety and comfort of that work and once again threw himself into the fire for a cause…

      …but that is another story.

    • can_you_change_your_username
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      32 months ago

      The Federation got him out during the Dominion War and made him a captain according to the games. He’s free in canon too. His name was on a list of Starfleet officers being taken into protective custody on an episode of Lower Decks.

    • teft
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      92 months ago

      Thomas wore commander pips and command red when he stole the Defiant.

      • LousyCornMuffins
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        12 months ago

        Yeah but that’s because he was pretending. When he’s not pretending he dresses like the gold shirt leftenant he is

      • @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        102 months ago

        But we know this isn’t from that time.

        The galaxy was going through a blurry low pixel phase when that happened, and this photo is crisp.

        • teft
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          62 months ago

          I heard of this thing called AI upscaling which I assume is Data redoing every pixel by hand. So really this photo could be from any stardate.

            • teft
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              52 months ago

              You’re telling me an android so advanced he can do this:

              isn’t at least ten times faster than a human. Look at that coordination!

    • partial_accumen
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      82 months ago

      Luckily he was a different rank so they were never dressed the same.

      Ooohhh, you just failed the Star Trek test. Do you even DS9, bro? /s

    • @DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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      202 months ago

      If this gif wasn’t in here I was gonna be upset!

      I’ve considered growing a goatee and using stick on mutton chops to cosplay Thomas Riker at conventions.

      • IninewCrow
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        72 months ago

        I was waiting for this GIF too

        If I ever see a Riker cosplayer … I’ll try removing their mutton chops … (I’m joking, I’d never touch anyone’s face for any reason)

  • @FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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    212 months ago

    Easy. Thomas is the exact same action figure but painted yellow, with the little tears on the uniform moulded into the figure still visible.

    (Me, still bitter that I held this figure in Woolworth’s and passed on it because it was a shitty repaint)