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Posted: 17:22:08 on August 27 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

In the new issue of British magazine STAR TREK MONTHLY (via Sci-Fi Pulse), STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and NEMESIS actor Jonathan Frakes says although he didn't get to direct this time around, he's happy with where 'William T. Riker' is and would be satisfied if TNG ends after this December.

"I can’t think of anything I still want to do as Riker," he says. “I get a leg over with Marina [Sirtis] in NEMESIS and something big happens at the end of the film. So if it’s really all over, I’ve had a full meal, and if it’s not, I’ll be happy to show up and do what they ask me."

But this notwithstanding, he maintains that there's certainly room for ST:TNG to continue after the tenth feature.

"I really don’t think this is going to be the last one,” Frakes says. “I’m pretty sure that it’s going to make a lot of money, and if it does, someone will ask us all to take a pay cut and we’ll go off and make another one."

The actor-turned director directed the previous two STAR TREK films and says NEMESIS allowed him to stretch his acting muscles with Riker once again.

"He’s grown over the years, more so on the series I would say than in the movies, but I think that’s pretty much true for all the characters.” Frakes argues. “You can only have so much character development in the movies, simply because you have two hours to tell the story. With the ‘Star Trek’ movies, we’re taking familiar characters and putting them in new stories each time."

Even so, Frakes told the mag that his directing career has taken off since directing the teen sci-fi film CLOCKSTOPPERS for Paramount, released earlier this year.

"I’ve gotten much more receptive treatment from other studios as a result of CLOCKSTOPPERS,” he notes. “I was very close to getting CAT IN THE HAT. I’m talking to Universal about another movie. The level of interest in my services and the level of people I’m dealing with now are noticeably higher than it had been and it’s because of Clockstoppers’. Whether or not they admit it, some people pot there think that the STAR TREK movies make themselves. You know, that’s not the case and I know that’s not the case, but a lot of people needed convincing."

For more excerpts check out this page. You can also catch more of Frakes in the new ST:TNG Season Four DVD Gift Set, hitting U.S. streets next Tuesday. Check out TrekWeb's Full Review.

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