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You're trying to be a hero. Terrorists don't get to be heroes.
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~ Kira's assessment of Riker
Lieutenant Thomas Riker is is the deuteragonist in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Second Chances" and the main antagonist of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Defiant".
He was played by Jonathan Frakes, who also portrayed Arthur Malcolm in Criminal Minds and voiced David Xanatos in Gargoyles and J'son in the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series.
Biography[]
Thomas Riker owed his existence to a mission that Lieutenant William Riker participated in during his service on the USS Potemkin, where he led a mission to Nervala IV to retrieve data files. The last to be beamed out as atmospheric distortions began to seal off the planet, Riker was locked onto with two transporter beams. While one successfully beamed him back to the Potemkin, the other rematerialised back on the planet's surface, creating two Will Rikers who were both just as much the original as each other. While his counterpart left the system aboard the Potemkin, the remaining Lieutenant Riker would remain stranded alone on Nervala IV for eight years.
Riker was finally discovered by an away team from the USS Enterprise, ironically led by the other Will Riker, now a commander. Returning to the Enterprise, his origin was quickly uncovered. He resumed his relationship with Deanna Troi but clashed with his counterpart, at one point going over his head to Captain Picard with a plan to retrieve the remaining files. Ultimately, the two Rikers were able to work together to complete the mission. Lieutenant Riker was offered a posting on the USS Gandhi and chose to leave Troi behind and accept it. He decided to use his middle name, Thomas or Tom, to distinguish himself from his counterpart.
However, Tom ended up defecting from Starfleet to join the Maquis terrorist group. He travelled to Deep Space 9, posing as his counterpart, and convinced Major Kira to give him a tour of the USS Defiant. He then stunned her before making it appear the ship was faulty and convincing the station's crew to release the docking clamps so it didn't explode near the station. He then took control of the ship and beamed aboard a Maquis crew, quickly leaving the system with Kira as a prisoner.
Riker took the Defiant into Cardassian space, explaining his intention to Kira: He suspected the Obsidian Order had a secret base in the Orias system and intended to expose it. Kira was incredulous that he saw terrorism as involving such an elaborate plan rather than simply using the ship to destroy Cardassian outposts that threatened the Maquis. Riker destroyed a number of Cardassian ships en route to the system, only to be left stunned when a large number of Obsidian Order ships, too many for the Defiant to fight, emerged from the cloaking field around the Orias system and headed towards them.
The Defiant was contacted by Commander Sisko and Gul Dukat who offered Riker a deal. If Riker surrendered to the Cardassian military and gave them the sensor data from the Orias system, he would be imprisoned by the Cardassians and his crew would be allowed to surrender to Federation custody. Accepting it was the only way to save his crew, Riker turned the Defiant around and surrendered to the Central Command ships pursuing them, turning command of the ship over to Kira.
According to the novel Imzadi II, Riker was later freed by the Romulans and worked with Sela on a plan to assassinate Chancellor Gowron, although he later changed his mind and helped stop the plot. The later miniseries The Fall depicted him as working for Starfleet Intelligence and helping solve the assassination of the Federation President.
