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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But nothing really felt like it was going to take off the way that Star Trek did, before that.
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I wasn't surprised, because I know that there's been that kind of loyalty about Star Trek, historically, certainly in the original seasons; the original series was picked up partially because of fan support.
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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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It's a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.
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To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.
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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.
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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 have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.
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It evolved, in all honesty, into a show much more about the mythology of the aliens than about the angst about teen romance.
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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.
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Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.
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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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Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.
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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.