10 Best Riker Episodes In Star Trek

10. A Matter Of Perspective

This is a crime story, through and through. It was beset with issues behind the scenes. The main bulk of the plot involves telling the same story four different ways from four different viewpoints, which apparently caused massive headaches for Cliff Bole, the episode's director. However, where there are challenges there are opportunities and the episode manages to rise above.

Frakes gets to play different variations of Riker here, from straightlaced officer to overbearing womaniser. It is notable as well that his own version of the truth paints him in a slightly more positive light than the established facts by episode's end.

While not the strongest of episodes overall, it was one of the first that pulled Riker up on his flirting and suaveness, leaving him in a sticky situation. While the eventual motive for the station's explosion was revealed to have little to nothing to do with being discovered with Apgar's wife, there is a portion of the episode where even Troi begins to question his innocence.

However, science rules the day and through the usual techno talk, he is saved from extradition. The episode delivers a court case, which almost always prove to be among the better episodes of Star Trek and also gets to play with the idea of personal lives interrupting professional lives. Riker may well have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but was anyone really shocked when people thought he'd made a pass at a lady?