Star Trek: What Are The Origins Of The Riker Maneuver?

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Over the years, the ever-expanding franchise of Star Trek had become known for a plethora of things, from fascinating alien races and cultures, rich with complex socio-political infrastructures, as well as some of the best fictional technology in science fiction. It's home to everything from the faster-than-light warp cores, all the way to fully-fledged holograms so complex they can gain their own sentience.

While these things are fairly grand, there are some more humorous things the shows and movies are known for. Such concepts include ridiculous devolving salamander captains, or a certain second-in-command's very specific style of sitting and standing. So iconic was this latter aspect that it was given its own name: The Riker Maneuver.

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While it may not be the best thing to be known for in-universe, it had become one of the most laughed-about aspects of the TNG series, making competition to the apparent meme champion Spock. The Riker Maneuver is the fan name given to how second-in-command of the USS Enterprise D, Commander William Riker, sits and stands. Some may not have picked this up at first glance, but he does it so often that it became a large part of his character. While it may seem fairly intentional, a purposeful character style the actor Johnathan Frakes gave the character, it might come as a surprise that he wasn’t aware he was doing it until many years after.

At a convention in 2017, Frakes was asked about the origins of the Maneuver, to which he replied that he had no idea he was sitting in such a remarkable way until he saw it on YouTube. His excuse was that due to his height (a whopping 6 feet 3 inches, taller than some of the Klingon