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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9755841" data-attributes="member: 6799660">But at the point when 'Thomas' Riker was reconstituted, the Federation considered them both to be William Thomas Riker, and the writers explicitly indicate that the differences in personality are that 'Thomas' is displaying the personality Riker had that many years ago. Later in DS9, he does display some behavior I'd consider rather un-Riker-like (joining the Maquis), but to me that always seemed to be communicated as something a younger Riker would have done, finding himself in a universe where there was another Riker with more prestigious accomplishments to which he'd always be compared.That they diverge is to be expected and not outside of the scope of the premise I have put forth. The point is that they were both (from the viewpoint of the people in-universe, and apparently the writers) the person.Side note: much like the handling of Tasha Yar/Sela, Thomas Riker is one of those plot points I think they could have handled better. There was plenty of opportunity to have used him again in TNG (it would have been great to have had him on the Southerland in Redemption II, for instance). I suspect the difficulty of playing two roles (when I think just one was hard on his back) probably prohibited Frakes from doing so. Still, it would have been nice if he'd been a re-occurring character on DS9 (maybe given him some nice extra cash between Gargoyles and Beyond Belief) instead of a one-off. Perhaps that would have been an issue, with him upstaging the DS9 cast (or eating into the budget). </blockquote>

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