Sounds Like Jonathan Frakes is Ready to Engage for ‘Star Trek: Picard’!!

While we can’t be sure if Jonathan Frakes‘ recent Twitter post means he’ll be reprising his role of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s first officer Commander William Riker as well as slipping into the director’s chair for 2 episodes of CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard, we’re pretty excited by the possibilities.

Frakes has his fair share of Trek episodes (8 of TNG, 3 Deep Space Nine, 3 Voyager, 2 of The Orville, and 4 of Discovery) under his belt, as well as films (Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection), so his engaging the hot seat for Picard makes perfect sense.

According to Frakes’ IMDB listing under his directorial credits (eek, we know, never the most reliable source of information), he’ll be helming two episodes of the upcoming Star Trek: Picard series, which will see the return of Sir Patrick Stewartas the former Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Last we heard, Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) and Isa Briones are the newest faces to join the show.

Hanelle Culpepper will be directing the first two episodes in a historic move for the Roddenberry franchise, as she will be the first woman to launch a Trek series, as well as showrunning.

We already knew that Santiago Cabrera (Heroes,Che) and Michelle Hurd (Marvel’s Daredevil, Blindspot) were on board for the series. There are of course, no details yet about who Cabrera and Hurd will be playing.

Star Trek: Discovery showrunner Alex Kurtzman, who will be serving as an executive producer on Picard, had this to say about the show; comparing it to DISCO, and how it’ll be totally different:

We will of course let you know what else we hear about the series.

About Mary Anne Butler

Bleeding Cool News Editor Mary Anne Butler (Mab, for short) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), and most recently Bleeding Cool.



Over the past 10 years, she’s built a presence at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). 



Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence. 



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(Last Updated May 22, 2019 2:15 pm )

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