Riker sits down

[@laurenjcoates]

The fact that he gets up the same way is the best part

[@Baron_Blue_Max]

Thats character

[@engineered_images]

That's the Inverse Riker Manoeuvre

[@roadtrippinghavingfun8641]

Way to funny

[@blazejames47]

That’s a real man girl

[@SIRMMA]

Reminds me of Ace Ventura when he is ‘rewinding’ to summarize a plot :)

[@Ladco77]

That's why he kept turning down his own command. The Captain's Chair was too high for him to swing his leg over.

[@benjamincuevas9627]

Then he grew too old to swing his leg over a chair and finally accepted a captain position.

[@reezlaw]

No chair is too high

[@littleredruri]

Oh, he'd find a way

[@dustin3958]

Ahahaha!!

[@xXxJSCOTTxXx]

@@benjamincuevas9627 no, he got a Borg hip replacement...

[@Plebchok]

Will Riker doesn't sit. He Mounts.

[@AdamSmithNES]

lmao

[@jenius9164]

He can mount me... dayum

[@chompchompnomnom4256]

I bet he mounted Troy in his quarters

[@amandavieirap]

FUCK, I YELLED

[@julieritt]

ChompChompNomNom Troi!

[@gavywavy1420]

He’s like a space cowboy mounting a saddle. Majestic.

[@alladreamwedreamed]

Bet you weren't ready for that 😂

[@HotTakeAndy]

Hot space cowboy

[@doryna_sira]

This comment in light of the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover ep is a million times funnier now.

[@ashspades5307]

@@doryna_sirathat’s what I thought too lol. It’s why I now say riker before swinging my leg over something 😂

[@poopsmith6853]

​@@alladreamwedreamed most who see your comment won't get it

[@pixelmentia]

“Mind if I join you?” *immediately dominates chair*

[@dradamov]

That was too funny, well said xDDDDD

[@minilogoguy18]

Top comment

[@timesthree5757]

That is why the Klingons respect him. He doesn't just sit he conquers the chair.

[@keamu8580]

That's a man that knows where to place his balls.

[@phantasmo9998]

Riker slaps chair with dick then sits down

[@sloth0708]

It's utterly ridiculous but it's such a power move. The fact that he got up like that too is what made me lose it though

[@ginkgothestink-o6949]

When he gets up it’s like they just put the clip in reverse

[@patrickgogan3517]

@@ginkgothestink-o6949 his back was fucked irl lol

[@stochastic24]

I don't think it's that ridiculous, it's actually more efficient. Besides it's better to be too ridiculous than not ridiculous enough.

[@Judgementxxx]

@@patrickgogan3517 He's said his back wasn't. He did it and nobody said anything, so he kept doing it.

[@bjornstefensen1207]

I’m pretty sure he only does this because he hurt his back.

[@kyleway8513]

I like to imagine that when Riker encounters a chair with armrest he just stares at it in confused annoyance

[@peterclarke7240]

I like to think he just gets Worf to rip them off before he even attempts to sit down.

[@syaba5336]

Doing that *Riker-squint* -_-

[@derchozenvun83]

Louis the Fourteenth made armless chairs popular so he could spy through peepholes on his nobles screwing.

[@SevenOfNineLover]

No he just puts his leg on the arm rest just like he does all the time with data's chair at ops

[@Johny40Se7en]

Awesome 😅😆

[@inthetoyroom4life]

I asked Johnathan Frakes if he still does the 'Riker Maneuver', and he responded with "whenever possible." Love him

[@MaxAbramson3]

Such attention to detail!

[@MegaZeta]

It's funny, but as chairs have become less likely to injure us over time, it's made this far harder. A symptom of an insufficiently optimistic future for back support, but a wonderful element for a performance to bring to the character

[@lewatoaofair2522]

I don’t remember him saying that on Beyond Belief.

[@Kenny-8]

@@lewatoaofair2522 You're wrong. It didn't happen. We made it up!

[@darmandez]

@PunishedKenny Total fabrication!

[@hammerbrother2835]

*The reverse Riker is my favorite dismount*

[@lukemanius]

I was shocked by how fluid that whole thing was Like He could have hit his face on the door! 😂

[@freakishuproar1168]

It was truly a marvel to behold.

[@richardhead8264]

Legend has it, it took him 7 takes.

[@minxieink917]

XD

[@lewstone5273]

Hammer Brother love it. The “reverse Riker”.

[@MiztarBriteCide]

Me wondering if Riker is gonna sit down normally this time. Riker: "Not this time."

[@liamferguson4145]

"Not a chance"

[@hammerbrother2835]

MiztarBriteCide pretty much

[@thechadford8572]

This reference is sublime. Definitely earned your like.

[@ajbahus]

“We got ya!” ;)

[@nordfreiheit]

A total fabrication

[@0x07-f3l]

I started sitting like this at work and now I'm CEO

[@yshouldifoogle6724]

Well done numba one

[@rock3tcatU233]

Noyce.

[@isupportthecurrentthing.1514]

I'm not surprised .

[@MadcookieBG]

Gotta think big, you should aim for country president next.

[@halcyondaystunes]

Narcissist

[@keithmichael112]

0:03 imagine someone keeping complete eye contact with you while doing that. That's a power move

[@royfokerpoker1802]

LoL that was awkward

[@turtle926]

😂😂😂

[@stansman5461]

​@@royfokerpoker1802for you receiving it. And thats why he's already won

[@MegaZeta]

@@royfokerpoker1802 Yeah a lot of nerds likely thought that doing this would make them look like Jonathan Frakes on an expertly shot and blocked TV show, when, really, to look like that while doing this, you had to _be_ Jonathan Frakes on an expertly shot and blocked TV show. I shudder to think what was wrought

[@queenredspecial]

My favourite part - the time he not only sits down that way, but gets up that way!

[@isthiswhereitype1]

"The reverse Riker"

[@KandiKlover]

This will be harder when he gets old and his balls hang low.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

now i can´t unthink it

[@Mitsukara]

That's what the jumpsuits are for.

[@banderfargoyl]

That was a seriously impressive dismount.

[@PureLimbic]

Maybe the reason Riker declined a promotion and a ship of his own for so many years was that Starfleet hadn't designed a ship with a command chair that one could straddle properly.

[@jameswilkes6091]

+PureLimbic Best comment ever

[@justicejericho97]

+James Wilkes shut up lord of Barn

[@jameswilkes6091]

TheQuackQuackLoRD Ned?

[@justicejericho97]

James Wilkes no ned is a massive gay

[@stevenfisher8638]

Presumably, that's when they finally redesigned the command chair so he count mount it.

[@blisterbill8477]

I heard that Riker never used a double. He did all his own sits.

[@dr.winstonsmith]

Blisterbill Underrated comment

[@2engjnr2]

🤣🤣🤣👍

[@AndrewStreams]

Laughing so much at this. Quality post.

[@sagezilla08official]

No way

[@notyou8716]

You're lying! NOBODY sits like that without a stunt double!

[@Nameless.Hermit]

The fact that power sitting and the Riker lean became part of the character all because Jonathan Frakes had a back injury will forever be amazing.

[@saschar.8736]

The term "power sitting" had me laughing really hard :D

[@JohnDretired]

I confine my power sitting to the toilet.

[@ssjwes572]

@@saschar.8736 Thanks I didn't think of that until you brought it up... xD

[@aceofspadesguy4913]

This is called “The Riker Maneuver”

[@FroggyMosh]

He also has the 'Reverse Riker'.

[@mkay3005]

Honest Trailers 😂😂😂

[@-M0LE]

Valaglar Propaganda Company only to people who cannot spell MANOEUVRE

[@phaserpants]

MOLE Maneuver is the accepted American English spelling. Like theater vs. theatre

[@Denthedragon]

You're right; a similar event took place.

[@ArcticFire23]

How did I never notice this in years of watching Star Trek

[@freakishuproar1168]

I like to think we all repressed the memory of it out of sheer terror.

[@mullcrumthesage6303]

Hard core Star Trek fan here. I noticed it once or twice but thought nothing of it..after watching this video, I never realized how much he did it.

[@SandraBWard]

Same here, I never really noticed that. Could it possibly because of his height? He is pretty tall.

[@mjgfromthed674]

Right... Me neither.. Lol..

[@marcellomercuri5619]

Val Masters It’s very subtle. Very smooth.

[@perplexalot1615]

At first I though this was funny.......but now I feel like maybe I’ve been sitting in chairs wrong all this time.

[@drfunk1986]

You're right

[@iza724]

Well you can't really do that with modern chairs like kitchen chairs and couches... You'd be doing the splits

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

That's the power of the Riker manoeuvre.

[@patrickoliver9133]

Apparently he had a bad back at the time and it was easier to sit that way

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Perplex Alot He does it so he can teabag the headrest.

[@Slimurgical]

The wierdest part is that Riker sits down faster than everyone else in the show. He had a back injury and it looks a bit silly, but it's unironically more efficient time-wise.

[@Timorio]

Sometimes I like to imagine what I'd do with all of those saved seconds if I could pull off such a feat.

[@tappy8741]

@@Timorio Imagine what you could do with the time not spent imagining what you'd do with all of those saved seconds if you could pull off such a feat.

[@V0YAG3R]

@@Timorio no

[@007Hutchings]

@Voyager shove it up yer arse

[@shingshongshamalama]

It also helps that he's a freakishly tall giant Jonathon Frakes is like six four iirc?

[@NameName2.0]

The Riker Maneuver. A power move in all diplomatic missions.

[@johnlucas6683]

Hahaha I heard that from Honest Trailers. Cool move, cool name.

[@CS-bu7lo]

I burst out laughing when cmdr. Jack Ransom was teaching the "Riker Maneuver" to his enseigns in Star Trek, Lower Decks, third season. Great comedy !

[@Stop_Gooning]

@@CS-bu7lo I think that's the first positive review I've seen for Lower Decks.

[@AL-lh2ht]

Apparently the actor has a spinal problem and that is why he sits like that.

[@RearAdmiralTootToot]

Manspreading in the 24th century

[@andrewwhite4570]

The third one got me. I was like, "Really? Backwards? To get OUT of the chair? Really really? ...okay."

[@drinkingandfifa1406]

+Andrew White It's how all manly people do it

[@PaulTheBookGuyCom]

+Andrew White He has a bad back which is why he sat down like that.

[@assburgers1]

+Paul Alves It's camera technique. He's keeping his face to camera

[@JoniWan77]

+Paul Alves I believe that's a rumor. I think the actual reason was, he wanted to make fun of the tiny chairs and it got a running gag.

[@LHGII]

+mark thompson that would explain why his upper body was alway tilted...i thought it was part of his cool pimp style..

[@rustyshackleford6633]

I'm impressed with how effortless he makes it look. If I tried this I'd look like a jackass.

[@billboyd1317]

Note that he never speaks while pulling off that move..

[@voidremoved]

@@billboyd1317 at 0:09 he talks half way through the move. He could probably speak while doing it but pauses to make sure everyone can take it in

[@ohrats731]

If I tried it, I’d look like I was climbing a mountain cause I’m so dang short

[@maridiancrest243]

He is an actor he would have mutiple takes to pulk this off...is what I would say if I wasnt sure he did it first try every time

[@TheRustyShackleford]

@@billboyd1317 he can either sit or he can talk. Never to be done at the same time.

[@mr.monitor7943]

I think my favorite part about it is the fact nobody even questions it. Then again, they’re probably in fear of such a power move.

[@SquirrelASMR]

Mace Windu: Take a seat, Young Riker... *Riker takes a seat* Mace Windu: My apologies, *Master* Riker

[@bobo577]

Riker: Am I the one to bring balance to the Force, or due to its name I push it through the door?

[@TheGreatDorian]

@@thehelmsdepot Take a sip, young Skywalker.

[@NinjaSushi2]

Lol

[@freepalestine2434]

Darth Vader: _"Most Impressive..."_ Riker: **takes a seat** Darth Vader: _"You are a Jedi"_

[@ananousous]

What about the Borg attack on the Wookies?

[@croatiaboy11]

Riker sits down normally Riker: "It's fiction. It was made up."

[@StroominPrime]

Sir, I can explain

[@Penningtontj]

@@StroominPrime "No you can't, don't even try!"

[@StroominPrime]

@@Penningtontj Nice.

[@mikem9536]

"Never happened".

[@Nicolas_Cage_Bees]

This one was invented by a writer.

[@RayneBlakeman]

He does it so effortlessly that I literally never noticed him doing this when I watched the show and now I’m just cracking up!!

[@RemixedVoice]

Totally lmao

[@holliswilliams8426]

the skill of acting

[@mchapman2424]

I always thought it would have been so damn funny if the set design people started messing with his chairs and making them just a little bit taller and a little bit taller... Until he was practically high hurdling to pull his chair manuver

[@PoFFizdaMan]

@@mchapman2424, the thought of this literally had me laughing out loud, thank you!

[@treyslider6954]

You can see how it actually works well for a show too; the way he mounts the back means he never dips his head down in the prepatory motion people make when they sit down. He just smoothly glides into position. You can see how in the close-up where he's at the display with the ferengi how the camera has such an easy time following him as he does it.

[@tayzonday]

Thomas Riker didn’t swing into chairs like this and he landed in jail!

[@_ArmIa]

Tay Zonday spotted in the wild! Hope you’re doing well man, brightened my day seeing your comment on this random video.

[@elijahmeilak2906]

What kind of world do we live in where a Tay Zonday comment only gets 6 likes?

[@ddxinthehouse]

that name. wait, chocolate rain??? god that smile of yours is unforgettable. hope you are living well.

[@OldieWan]

The average chair enjoyer Vs The CHAD chair swinger! 🖖Always nice to run into TayZonday on a Star Trek video. This guy knows his Trek! Tay Zonday brought me around to finally watching DS9. He was right! It is great.

[@RandomNonsense1985]

Get ready to feel some choc-o-late pain! LEAVE CHOCOLATE RAIN GUY ALONE!!

[@PigMan161]

“Mind if I join you?” “Not at all” *Riker proceeds to mount the chair* “I actually very much do mind if you join me”

[@Sercil00]

"Apologies." (gets off the chair the same way he got on)

[@thribs]

Frakes confirmed on IGN that he has seen this video and is amazed how many times he did it.

[@royfokerpoker1802]

Didn't he explain it? Has something to do with his back right?

[@thribs]

@@royfokerpoker1802 Yep. Before TNG he used to be a mover and he hurt his back moving a piano.

[@kuribayashi84]

@@thribs And the uniforms they wore in the first two seasons appearantly didn't help matters. I heard they were very uncomfortable.

[@VictoriaBeliever]

Oh wow, I thought they just wrote that into his character to express confidence, huh. I hope his back feels better :(

[@royfokerpoker1802]

@@VictoriaBeliever Lol

[@jackkoffin1]

For those who have somehow just discovered this 30 years later, it's called "the Riker Maneuver."

[@Ariisu_u]

@¿0.O? lol I spotted the one in the first clip, and was like wtf why is he doing it that way. I honestly don't know how I haven't noticed all the other as well

[@pierreweee7425]

Not to be mistaken for the famous Picard Maneuver🤣🤣

[@Ave_Satana666]

remember he has a neck beard.

[@Ave_Satana666]

never forgetti

[@Ave_Satana666]

what if calling someone a neck beard is just rude and has nothing to do with their social abilities regardless of how they look.

[@samuelquintanilla6338]

I grew up on this show and I never noticed this, just goes to show how smooth Riker is.

[@mygirk]

I lost it when he got up in a Reverse Riker Maneuver.

[@vapsman88]

Reverse Riker Delta Four Maneuver. :0)

[@Wintersonne711]

😂👍

[@seraphir8535]

It's a very advanced technique, only experts should attempt. 😎

[@Guerrillablackdog]

Yeah. I did too Lol

[@danielbowles986]

They tried teaching this maneuver at Starfleet academy but the cadets couldn't wrap their minds around it.

[@Viking102938]

He's not sitting, he's asserting his dominance

[@romyarmada2521]

Nature cannot brook a power vacuum. The Alpha must assert his dominance.

[@Enkarashaddam]

That's what I thought

[@arnaraki7514]

Over the chair

[@calebsmith6792]

apparently he did this cause he had a back injury that made it painful to sit in a normal way when they had to do a lot of takes. same reason he would tend to lean on things if other characters were standing. its cool that it became iconic

[@Overflight01]

The leaning thing was also because Frakes was much taller than most of his costars (6'4''/193cm)

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

I never would've thought in a million years that he did it because he was crippled. It just looks badass.

[@AgeofReason]

No that's not STFU

[@metalmonkey0026]

A problem no doubt exacerbated by those stiff and uncomfortable early tng uniforms

[@comradecameron3726]

@@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 it’s such a power move.

[@ArachD206]

It's so weird and unusal, yet he does it so smoothly, it's almost kinda impressive.

[@FringePrincess]

it’s definitely impressive

[@E4RLIES]

Almost!???😮 Bow down heathen😁

[@blackfyre5158]

He's just letting the chair know who's boss

[@alanmalcheski8882]

You gotta wonder how he gets on the toilet to go number two.

[@alanmalcheski8882]

@Harold Slick too late. I'm dead now. I can't even rest in peace. I'm haunting you now. Boogity boo.

[@ArtifiSir]

To think this was born from just needing a more comfortable way to get seated after a back injury over so many takes. It worked out great for his character personality!

[@StormyGeddon]

Diyanira TBM-Gaming HOW IS THIS MORE COMFORTABLE I am so confused

[@someonessidechannel1485]

You probably need a shorter chair back than usual

[@eighteen18eighteen]

Don't ruin the magic!

[@patricioansaldi8021]

Is this for reals? I thought it was just cause he was tall (the chairs look pretty minute) and full of swagger (self explanatory)

[@michaelramsey1299]

Patricio Ansaldi it’s for real he talked about it in an interview it’s how he always sits down because it puts less strain on his lower back.

[@stlchucko]

0:17 Riker “un-sits”

[@ssjautobot]

StL ChuckO this is the best comment ever.

[@React2Quick]

The reverse Riker mount

[@neroidius6915]

*_DISENGAGING RIKER MANEUVER_*

[@jf13919]

*Dismounts*

[@yanniblumstein1]

The fastest way to stand up. What a genius

[@micheljavert5923]

I know the RL reason for it, but I like to imagine in-universe that’s just a weird quirk Riker has. And more than a few people gave narrowed their eyes at him and said: “Stop...stop doin’ that.” 😂

[@obsidianjane4413]

In a Universe full of alien species with all sorts of physiology and quirks, it wouldn't have given them a second thought.

[@justanotheranimeprofilepic]

​@@obsidianjane4413ok but the enterprise is also full of humans. At some point someone should've looked at rikerlike he had 5 heads

[@itchykami]

If I remember my lore; Johnathan Frakes sat like this due to an injury; mounting the chair was easier than bending down. Later it just became the character. As iconic as earl grey.

[@Caitydid561]

Yup! A back injury from a job as a mover prior to being cast as Riker. Also why he'd lean on things like the console or random boulders and barrels.

[@christopherstein2024]

That's trivia not lore

[@thatstarcreator]

@Savannah Layh Frakes is 6'3", tall enough to do this with most chairs without stretching his back.

[@codymoe4986]

@SavannahLayh... It shouldn't have to make sense to you. If it helps him to complete a repetitive task with less pain, what sense in even questioning it?

[@codymoe4986]

@Savannah Layh From someone who has similar back troubles, I guarantee sitting like this, or in an abnormal way always helps me. Guessing it helped him as well. So as I asked before, what use in questioning it if it helps? It isn't your concern...

[@SomeGuy-dq8pn]

I'm 6'3, just like Riker. From now on, I will only mount chairs, never sit on them

[@foop145]

No, you can't, don't even try.

[@jedisok13]

Mount it son!

[@spoontang]

Tunnel Snakes rule

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Butch DeLoria don’t forget the beard and Starfleet uniform!

[@testy462]

You used the perfect word, that's exactly what he is doing lol. Mounting.

[@Enigmatic_Lurker]

How have I never noticed this??? He just does it so casually...

[@cdevidal]

And nobody else seems to notice or care. It’s so weird

[@LutzMowinski]

@Jaksida he's also quite tall and the backrests quite small, so getting in the chair was easier this way.

[@hellsonion514]

I say this video a while ago... it still mesmerizes me...

[@sovietninja6865]

RodriguezDeathDealer it’s apart of his character

[@joevenespineli6389]

@@rawtrout007 Thats it huh?

[@hilliajf]

The "riker manuver"... combined with the beard... 120% total chad energy

[@JoeTricep]

I love the first clip. He’s staring into the guys soul and you see this huge leg swings effortlessly over the chair in the background

[@danitho]

And it looks like he wants to laugh at the end there.

[@echo5327]

Also If I recall it’s the first time he does it, like I’d already seen a video of it and I was still shocked

[@marcus_gideon]

This is the Riker Maneuver. Just like how the Picard Maneuver was getting ready to do (anything) by tugging down your shirt first.

[@davidtaylor6452]

Marcus Gideon haha yes!!

[@davidtaylor6452]

Im glad you noticed this too

[@Incadazant01]

Reconsider your position “Reloading his mind cannon” People are giving me worried looks now, because I fell out of my chair laughing so hard. Well done!

[@TurboRTM]

Holy shit, I noticed this, but never really thought about how often he does that until you mentioned it, lmao

[@McGyver777ATGMAIL]

Hell, yes. Going to do the dishes, shirt tug, going to start an intergalactic war, shirt tug....there has to be some effing commonality in this Universe.

[@twinturbocars]

Commander Riker is the Stallion who Mounts the World.

[@geekyginger240]

ahahaha!

[@armanhammer]

That's officially my favorite title.

[@Mrcryptidsarereal]

The world? Dude, he mounts the fucking Universe!

[@WavyNavy1]

Lmfao!

[@OdintheGermanShepherd]

zayaan ali you win!! LOLOL

[@MikeyChalupa47]

In the crossover SNW/LDS episode... Boimler swinging his leg over the saddle, and Jack Quaid ad-libbing "RIKER" while Jonathan Frakes was directing the episode... *chef's kiss*

[@Krynictrace]

Other people approach from the sides, Riker approaches from the back and swings his leg over. This, is the Riker Manoeuvre.

[@b.lloydreese2030]

watch out, riker's coming from the rear!

[@RetroActiveGM]

You should tell Troi that.

[@Irondrone4]

I don't know what everyone's so surprised about. It's very important for you to properly mount wild chairs; only by asserting your dominance will the chair come to obey your commands and stop attempting to buck you off.

[@DogAndEazy]

Irondrone4 this is brilliant haha

[@-JungleHunter1987-]

😁

[@Nickelodeon81]

Lol

[@edwardaugustus9680]

The Virgin Sit v. The Chad Mount

[@kbabergo]

LMAO

[@JobiWan144]

Riker is an absolute Chad all around

[@koolaidacidkilla179]

BASED

[@seankkg]

I never realized he gets out of the chair the same way. Truly asserting dominance.

[@enragedsockpuppet]

BREAKING NEWS: Actor Jonathan Frakes was injured on the set of Game of Thrones today, while attempting to sit on the Iron Throne.

[@deltaquadboi]

Your comment and picture go together perfectly.

[@enragedsockpuppet]

deltaquadboi Indeed.

[@ronaldmalcolm5609]

I hope he doesn't snag the bag.

[@kroon275]

Lmbo 😂 or - Ripped His Balls Off 😂

[@justincase1919]

Lol ! 😂🤣😂

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

He is using the chair like his horse :-)

[@foxyapocalypse6365]

Or a Harly :)

[@patgogan7324]

Or a woman lol

[@lexijamie3193]

epSos.de i see what you did there

[@thejudgmentalcat]

In my day we called that saddle-sitting. As I'm 5'3", I've never done it.

[@HauntFreak13]

He can use me as a horse

[@alucard1931]

All chairs in Starfleet are specifically test-engineered to be teabagged by Riker.

[@DEATHANDSADDNESS]

😂😂😂

[@gcb345]

I lost my shit when you said that!

[@davesworld7961]

Lol

[@lQuadXl]

*Every female in Starfleet also has to endure the Riker Teabag Torture Test, many bear the scars of failure*

[@captaindishman9126]

0:45 this sit is either totally dominant or creepy he only breaks eye contact to intimidate the chair and maintains a smooth and sturdy plop and keeps a smile the whole time

[@visarr]

Yeah - and at 0:48, all the ladies at the other table can't take their eyes off of him.

[@a.cretr025]

I love how casual he is about it, like it’s completely normal to sit down like that.

[@SnowmanTF2]

Plus nobody else even seems a bit surprised someone would be doing this

[@bluevervain8317]

0:10 Riker Maneuver 0:17 Reverse Riker Maneuver 0:24 Riker Maneuver + Picard Maneuver This compilation has it all.

[@grimmblade]

Ah yes the shirt tug, runner trying to cut Picard Grass

[@vajoynus]

I tried that one time and punched myself in the dick.

[@JelloFluoride]

Oh shit! You're right! BOTH maneuvers!

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

@@vajoynus ever kicked your own balls trying to move blankets? I do this regularly.

[@vajoynus]

@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 hahaha No, but I regularly thwap my sack when curling up extension cords and the end plug bounces off the ground and jumps into my nuts.

[@yamidelacroix6729]

Me: Damn, I'm bored. KZbin: wanna see a man sit down in such a way it became iconic?

[@neatkefe]

I remember seeing this video like 10 years ago, thinking it was gold. Now I'm re-visiting Star Trek, and remember this video. It's still gold.

[@maychorian]

I really appreciate that you left a few seconds of context with each of these. It makes it so much more hilarious when he sits down like that and says something extremely serious. Like, "We went through some serious times."

[@kuribayashi84]

"I wouldnt be surprised if History remembers this as the Riker Maneuver!"

[@MindstormXL]

If it works!

[@admiralfalco]

The Riker maneuver was actually down to Jonathan Frakes having a back issue. This also caused him to suffer from prolonged periods of time. Which gave rise to his one sided poses as he displaced weight from one side to another during filming to help with it.

[@KairuHakubi]

What's great is it doesn't remotely come off as a move to ease pain, but a swift and effortless piece of acrobatic skill enabled by his height, the equivalent of a guy reaching up to tap a light fixture/doorway as he walks by because he can.

[@haphazardlark1502]

@@KairuHakubi it’s amazing how things can become both compensation for pain and injury and graceful and confident like that. It blows my mind how our bodies can adapt. I completely destroyed my knees and ankles pushing too far with an undiagnosed connective tissue issue and i can barely keep my balance and hobble around like an 80 year old trying to walk normally but if I can glide on my toes in socks I can move like water. I have a friend who’s an ambulatory wheelchair user, can’t stand upright and still for more than ten seconds without horrible pain, but still dances. The more intensive the compensation the more focus it takes and it can get less efficient but once you learn to feel what your body can do instead of pushing it to do something it can’t anymore, there’s a joy in that movement that’s one hell of a confidence booster ime Like fine I can’t do the thing normal so I will fully lean into doing it the weird way until it becomes a signature move Idk I think it’s neat

[@KairuHakubi]

@@haphazardlark1502 it's animals who impress me the most. A dog can have any number of limbs and it's still gonna be a dog, doin' dog things, doing its best.

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

I thought he was just Bi.

[@nickirmen6671]

@@haphazardlark1502 There is a saying that goes "The Human Body is the most advanced and complex machine on Earth." I would know because I was born hard of hearing (deaf in my right ear), but the human body will balance it out and improve the other senses it relies on, in my case mostly sight because I don't need glasses or contacts like most other people in the family do.

[@personman8404]

I never realized that this was why he always had a more profound presence in scenes like this. It just went over my head that they way he sits draws attention, in a way that he uses well

[@Barny5ive]

00:57 Riker: "We went through some serious times" Pressman (sighing deeply): "I see you still do that sitting thing"

[@Zoe-aka-Zeus]

😂😂

[@AAvfx]

To be honest, I've never noticed that when it was aired, only years later on KZbin! 😲

[@malte1984]

Same XD

[@juliah9307]

Now you have me watching during reruns 😁

[@faryn3687]

same =D

[@matthewdrexler188]

Itscuz franks was natural at that wierd thing

[@flowers5695]

Your subconscious noticed though. Very neat and subtle way to code Riker as “swarthy.” Frakes deserves praise for how natural he made it look.

[@Seanbo88]

Riker's a pretty big guy. He probably thinks "puny chair" to himself everytime

[@Stefanthenautilus]

For you.

[@wesleysmith5275]

I believe it was because he had a serious back injury in his life and this was an adaptation to not bend at the waist to sit down

[@kxmode]

Riker is space cowboy 🤠 that's how they sit partner.

[@nillynush4899]

See you, Space Cowboy.

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

Im a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker.

[@filasophies4423]

The real folk blues!!!!

[@kristinagreer6346]

just saw him do an interview about this and he was all like hey, I',m 6'4" and those chairs basically have no back?

[@xymaryai8283]

hmm, I understand that height does display a big factor, but I wonder if specifically a similar height to Riker is required? i uhh, need this for a report.....

[@WalrusWinking]

@@xymaryai8283 I'm 6'4" when I grew up I noticed the world getting more and more awkward the larger and older I got. You start to develop things like this when the world is designed for people that are half a foot shorter than you. For instance I get this strong urge to duck under doorways because I've hit my head too many times to count as I underestimated my height.

[@rapliberationarmy089]

I love how this is probably just how Jonathan Frakes sat for his convenience, but it became Riker‘s "signature move"

[@petepete2284]

I've seen every darn show and have never noticed that.

[@twin9408]

"You don't look like a person who came here to relax."

[@300pzl]

"A show of dominance toward upholstry"

[@jonbarbour6771]

Nothing stands in his way, especially backrests.

[@saltymcsalt]

I'll never be able to binge TNG without noticing this all the time 🤣

[@SquirrelASMR]

0:01 take notes, maintain eye contact the entire time to assert dominance.

[@albatwitchwiggler6905]

Alpha prison maneuver, the only way to top that is to eat a banana while executing the power sit all the while maintaining the prison-rape eyes

[@SquirrelASMR]

@@albatwitchwiggler6905 😂😂😂

[@xymaryai8283]

can confirm, eye contact ensures effectiveness, however once the maneuver has been perfected, eyes can only be averted if you are executing in front of a relationship interest. interesting that the only cases where Riker has performed the no-look maneuver, have been with both female and male audience, confirming that Riker is indeed our bisexual icon, or as the deeply Picard facepalm maneuver deserving people insist, a bicon. XD

[@dittmar104]

This is actually really smart for characterisation and take consistency. Since he doesn’t pull out the chair it doesn’t have to be repositioned for the next run through the scene.

[@meap27]

its actually because Jonathan Frakes had a back issue and couldn't sit down like we do. Good theory though!

[@junbh2]

@@meap27 Once he started it did become part of the character though. I think if he had stopped someone would have told him to go back to it.

[@prototype8137]

@@meap27 reminds me michael.j fox and his mug carrying character on Spin City. It was a tool for his parkinsons to keep it in control but fit his character perfectly.

[@danitho]

@@meap27 But i think this has actually been debunked? Because Johnathan Frakes said he did it once and no one said anything so he kept doing it

[@junbh2]

@@danitho Yeah, I have seen that too

[@biogopher]

Riker : "is there something -🦵- wrong Westly" Westly : "..."

[@voidremoved]

Wesley has a holodeck program dedicated to learning the Riker maneuver but he still can't get the hang of it

[@MCVessels]

@@voidremoved Aliens have told Wesley that his way of sitting down is best anyway.

[@Parodox306]

I've never seen a better use for a leg emoji, this is kinda freaking me out

[@The_CIA]

Best leg comment ever!

[@d.w.stratton4078]

I'm screaming lol

[@carlmanvers5009]

It was a practical solution to a real world problem. So he effortlessly made it part of the character. Some fine acting there.

[@randomatheist1039]

William T Riker; the only man in Starfleet history to get his leg over more often than Jim Kirk.

[@BlondeBarbarian]

Me: I can sit down the way Riker does. Riker: No you CAN'T don't even TRY!

[@p.bamygdala2139]

YOU heard me, I said SHUT UP. As in CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!

[@lillyswift42]

All the chairs in my home are too high.😞

[@Menaceblue3]

Me: "Has anyone over strained/sprained their hamstring and glute muscles doing this? Because mine hurt...." Riker: "It's fact.... A similar event did occur in New Jersey around 20 years ago...."

[@lostpapertown]

I Tried it ripped my balls and break my legs

[@seanys]

I understood this reference.

[@BrendanBeckett]

Somehow, having seen every episode, and most 3 to 4 times, I never noticed this.

[@sbushido5547]

lol Same here. Guess I was too distracted by the Picard Maneuver.

[@mustang6172]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[@cannibalbananas]

you're not the only one

[@matthewhudson7883]

I had been watching the show since about 1989 and I never noticed it until maybe a year or two ago when another video focused on his mannerisms.

[@Sypaka]

I noticed that once, but I dismissed it as part of the episodes plot.

[@tilasole3252]

0:01 i like how the Inquisitor is not intimidated by Riker, even leaning in closer.

[@MangetsuSAMURAI]

Damn this man, he can even make a back injury look cool.

[@simoncarlile5190]

I used to notice him doing this getting into a chair, but I never noticed him _leaving_ the chair this way.

[@Chief_Bill]

Ikr

[@regardedvelociraptor]

Damn what a demonstration of dominance. Even Picard is insecure after watching him sit.

[@romyarmada2521]

Being in the presence of such Chadness can only result in amazement.

[@Zmanwarrior]

I love how most of the bridge crew actors gave them little character ticks. Like Riker stepping over the starfleet chairs, or Picard's "maneuver" whenever he stands up.

[@invisi-bullexploration2374]

0:18 Kind of looks like Picard mentally registering that how Riker just used a chair 'was not okay'.

[@andrewkarlsson8621]

Incorrect strategy Number one 0:18

[@matthewdrexler188]

"There he goes again with that ridiculousness"

[@Megalith79]

How many people do you know who’re epic enough to have an entire video dedicated to *just them sitting down* TNG forever ❤️

[@Mikeanglo]

To the person who blessed us with this compilation...you're doing god's work.

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

If only God would do my work...

[@Rekaert]

The Riker Maneuver is a beautiful thing, challenged only by the reverse Riker Maneuver. 0:15

[@Venaloid]

Man, Jonathan Frakes is freaking tall.

[@BlakeSmith17]

Venaloid that or the chairs are just set really low, because the federation might be afraid of a little feet of height.

[@DelcoRanz93]

Venaloid Yeah, He's about 6'3"

[@Darca1n]

+BlakeSmith17 To be fair, low-set chairs would actually somewhat make sense on a federation spaceship for the simple reason that, if the ship should hit something somehow and it manages to rattle the ship itself you won't have very long to fall. That or it's just cheaper.

[@jameswilkes6091]

+Darca1n There is no "cheap" in the Federation, matter replication means money is no longer needed. Of course, talking about the set, then you're probably right.

[@drjosephfarah]

+Venaloid i think you mean he is fraking tall.

[@professionalnerd4055]

Will Riker: **sits down** 4.3 million people: _Interesting_

[@Sacrilege83]

ST:D and ST:P can't pull these numbers.

[@newsaxonyproductions7871]

4.5 million

[@draycaisings162]

I think you mean “Fascinating”

[@pierreo33]

at what point in your life did you decide to become a mindless drone, making the exact same meme comments as millions of others

[@professionalnerd4055]

@@pierreo33 when did you become a pathetic internet troll, insulting others for no reason?

[@Rebazar]

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is Jonathan Frakes' mnemonic device for remembering his lines.

[@smoozle]

Previous back injury. He can't twist/curve his back very easily. :( Nice theory, though! :D

[@jamham69]

Apparently not. According to other comments, a podcast confirms he did the whole thing as a joke.

[@Mecha_Hitler]

jamham69 source please

[@ScottMcMaster-er4xj]

He had a bad back, and sitting this way helped avoid the pain that shooting many retakes of him sitting would have put him through.

[@porshprix4286]

The most intelligent comment about the video.

[@hhgeneralburkhalter4820]

0:10 lol he gets off the same way

[@johnomalley7494]

I've watched every tng episode. Never noticed it before until now.

[@mithikx]

0:20 Riker Maneuver followed up by the PIcard Maneuver? Now he's just recklessly endangering the ship.

[@flamixflame2685]

i knew i wasnt the only person to notice that

[@patrickgogan3517]

The captains tug..

[@andyk5467]

oh dang

[@Ben82077]

The fact that he gets out of chair the same way is hilarious.