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...
feels star trek
It's a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.
acting learned life simpler sort thrilled woke
When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.
problem shows soaps
I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.
attracts boys continue create gotten season strong style suspect third
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.
best contribute cuts executive hire jobs notes obviously people producer scripts shows
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.
fact intriguing premise
So, the premise of the show, that there were in fact aliens from Roswell who had infiltrated the public, I thought was very intriguing and very sellable.
clear greater projected season
I think by the end of the first season it was pretty clear that the numbers, if you will, were greater than the projected numbers, and that we were going to be around for awhile.
interest science virtually
Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.
against bad cheer clearly element evil good guy kids root understand
I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a story more clearly if there's an evil element for them to cheer against and to root for the good guys.
concept explore outside
Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.
guest next producer
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.
allow levity properly
I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this.
happy sort
In the theater, we were sort of happy to do what we could get.
budgets felt
I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.