Always like to imagine Riker is thinking "Oh boy here I go f*cking my way out of another jam!"
Posted by TurboLeopard42@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 60 comments
I mean just look at that face.
lokiandgoose@reddit
Riker is an experienced diplomat. I've always thought that he simply tricked her and improvised something innocent but flashy. Maybe he showed her square dancing or gave her a deep hand massage.
Romulan-Jedi@reddit
Perhaps he pulled an Ivanova.
iXenite@reddit
I will now use this as my headcanon! What a good idea.
Middcore@reddit
I hate the Riker Drift.
RizzoFromDigg@reddit
Now hold on, I will shut down Kirk Drift whenever it happens, but Riker is a full on horndog from day one.
He's playing pranks to get the Captain laid.
He's popping on Angel One catsuits.
He's getting put on trial for murder because scientist wives always want to fuck him.
Riker is getting it.
Ragnarok345@reddit
This scene needs to stop being seen as “Oh ho ho, Riker gets his sexy time! Way to go, you hound dog!” This was rape. There’s no other word for it. And people don’t give a fuck because it’s against a guy. It’s fucking disgusting.
Calm_Ad308@reddit
There’s plenty of sexual assault examples in trek both men and women, this is not one of them. Riker was not forced into starfleet, was not forced to accept the mission. He is an undercover agent performing what constitutes as espionage for Star Trek TNG era, this is one possible outcome of accepting that assignment and it’s even implied he will need to perform something like this if things go wrong and he is told of all these outcomes way before this mission even happens. There is no difference to this than Bond hooking up with the BBEG’s side piece to gain information or access. The reason Riker looks disgusted with the situation is because Frakes is giving that character morality and is emotes in such a way the audience understands that “Riker doesn’t want to do this because it’s beneath him as an enlightened Star fleet officer”. It’s not rape or assault, and saying it is demeans actual sexual violence.
Data being abducted by the collector is a much better allegory for rape and human trafficking than this scene, there is zero consent to that situation.
yeahalrightgoon@reddit
"I won't let you leave and il get you arrested if you don't have sex with me now."
That's rape by coercion.
BulbasaurCPA@reddit
Didn’t he have to do it or she wouldn’t let him leave? That’s pretty iffy
BuckyGoodHair@reddit
She is directly holding aid to him hostage in exchange for sex. Yes that is rape, whatever ol’ buddy up there typed.
CSWorldChamp@reddit
So, Riker! F*ck your way out of THIS! If you can...
Illustrious_Cry1028@reddit
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LA-Matt@reddit
He fixes the cable?
1nspectorMamba@reddit
lets be real here, that was rape.
Used-Gas-6525@reddit
It was the 80s/90s. Women raping men was not really viewed as a thing that happened. But to your point, yeah. She was forcing him into non-consensual sex.
SwayzeCrayze@reddit
Just look at The Gamesters of Triskelion in TOS. Uhura having a partner “selected” for her and trying to force himself on her is rightfully played as horrific. The same thing is threatened by a woman towards Chekov and played for laughs.
WiglyWorm@reddit
Used-Gas-6525@reddit
Darmok47@reddit
Absolutely. If it was a male character and Counselor Troi or Dr. Crusher, no one would be laughing.
chickiedew@reddit
It's the Captain Kirk way!
JuanJotters@reddit
She has no knowledge of human anatomy or sexual practices. He could have easily told her that humans do it by spitting on the ground and sitting in it. Whatever they got up to, Riker was ok with it.
Proper-Application69@reddit
Every organ was in the wrong place, except one.
zmykula@reddit
psst ...I think they're talking about his hog.
LiamtheV@reddit
“First Officer’s log”
nhowe006@reddit
... Supplemental.
nhowe006@reddit
At a certain point, holes is holes.
Brain_Hawk@reddit
They would have known he was an alein as soon as they saw his...
Wait...
Wait...
I am now Forced to assume the surgical alterations were VERY accurate.
TheHylianProphet@reddit
They are extremely meticulous when it comes to these missions. You never know who you'll have to bang to keep your cover.
LightHeartsLiveLong@reddit
Her heart.
IntroductionLeft4369@reddit
The only one that mattered.
adjust_the_sails@reddit
rob94708@reddit
Her left hand looks like E.T.’s penis
kiermatv@reddit
LeicaM6guy@reddit
How do you think he managed to successfully get through the Kobayashi Maru scenario?
Longjumping_Ice_3186@reddit
Then after all that. . . they immediately catch him and beat him almost to death lol
CodAppropriate6109@reddit
"Something happened to him, I think he's dead. Go on, get some help!" - he probably wouldn't have been caught if it wasn't for her.
Well_Dressed_Kobold@reddit
He’s trying to remember if they have toothy or standard vaginas.
MolybdenumBlu@reddit
"I whored my way into this mess and, with god as my witness, I'll whore my way back out again!"
snookerpython@reddit
His facial expression is saying:
"We talked about this in therapy."
"OK but in this specific situation, there's literally no other way out."
jackrabbit323@reddit
But Troi is the only therapist on the ship...
jack_begin@reddit
Maybe they talked after therapy.
Left-Escape@reddit
Every damn time…
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ninjamullet@reddit
It's a really good thing that the alien who blackmailed Riker into having sex with her happened to be attractive enough by human standards, huh?
KayJay282@reddit
Riker when he sees s new humanoid lifeform.
Used-Gas-6525@reddit
It's more like 'Oh boy! Here I am fucking my way out of another jam!"
Punctuation is everything.
jaques_sauvignon@reddit
Came here to correct OP just like this.
WiglyWorm@reddit
nah this was rape
Akersis@reddit
If you asked me to caption it: “I could go for some jam”
Storyteller-Hero@reddit
The freaky thing in all this, is that a hybrid child may have been conceived, and that becomes a whole different kind of story.
Rooster_Fish-II@reddit
I just watched this episode. He was hesitant for a moment and then agrees. They do the deed and she helps him “escape”. Except he literally runs around one corner, gets caught immediately, gets the shit kicked out of him, and gains nothing. Except another notch in the old belt.
Also, while they are scanning him they talk about how different his physiology is. Can you imagine how different her lady parts must be? Does that stop our Billy Boy? It sure does not.
DoubleGibson@reddit
"The things I do for Starfleet."
This-Breadfruit-1958@reddit
Karma for Ensign Roe
nrg8@reddit
Just played it to space Lilith. Legend
matt95110@reddit
Riker only does that on days that end in y.
NarmHull@reddit
Just lie back and think of Betazed
OopsAIIBots@reddit
I had a crush on that actress from when she played Lilith on Frazier, and I also had a crush on Troi.
This episode fulled my hatered for Riker. I absolutely hated his guts until I started watching Voyager, and then he got points back for not being Chakote.
Anyway, ahcoochiemoya
Remote-Pie-3152@reddit
Cherry, Nilez?
adashrod@reddit
Riker: sighs unzips It is my burden
I_only_post_here@reddit
If there is one thing I've learned it's don't back William T Riker into a corner, because he will fuck his way out of it!
Throwing-Gas@reddit
Damn you Riker!
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