Jonathan Frakes
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2024
- Jonathan Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and in four Star Trek films.
He's a spokeperson for the upcoming PanCAN PurpleStride 2024 walk, happening Saturday, April 27, at nearly 60 events across the country. - Zábava
That voice is iconic. He can still get it.
I met him and Gates McFadden at a Fan Expo a few years ago, less than a year after open heart surgery. They were both so polite and gracious and spent a several minutes chatting with me on my first long outing from the house post surgery that it meant the world to me.
Glad you are ok now Tom, post op.
That’s really nice to hear.
In keeping with Star Trek may you live long and prosper...🖖
I bought the entire TNG series on DVD from a seller on Ebay several months ago and I enjoyed watching all 178 episodes. Star Trek is the gift that keeps on giving.
@@vincerob369 really the year of your birth you do know that it came out in 1963 or four I forget which by the time the second or third season was out you would’ve been three or four if you were born in 1963 I say that because I remember watching Star Trek and I’m not born in 1963 I was about three years old at the time and autistic which meant I was in my own little bubble was playing, and I can remember relating to what was going on screen, and there had been a commercial one of the other television channels, and my father had made the effort to get up from his line position in front of the color, television it one of the first color TVs portable color TVs. It was huge by the way, and only portable. If well you were strong as both my dad and I were, when my mother finally decided to sell that thing in exchange from something more modern more than 20+ years later the guys who were trying to move it couldn’t even figure out how they lift it. I picked it up like well no big deal and slugged it out to their car and they’re like staring at me like I’m super some sort of superman I’m not a man of course when they finally took it there it took two of those big guys to lift it in my family. It just the way we are half. The family are super strong and the other half or not just the way we are long story short. This thing was big we’re talking huge and bulky and had a little handle on the top to be able to move it from A point B point i’m sorry voice to text does not always write things down the way I would like it to and I can’t fix it. It’s just too difficult and it doesn’t punctuate the way to bear. You don’t have the use of your hands you use what you can it is the only tool I’ve got. Anyway, being autistic, it was watching that that made me decide to come out of my bubble, Mr. Spock in an and Uhura where are my role models… I used to get teased a lot by even friends that said that I was too Vulcan like because besides being able to do the Vulcan salute there when you come family from a Jewish religious family is known for doing it for religious reasons most people never can keep the fingers perfectly aligned, but that’s another story at least back then they couldn’t know almost everybody can do it does make perfect. Anyway that’s why it made a difference to me not unlike it made a difference to you…
My father died of pancreatitis cancer. Thank you number one.
Riker stepping over a chair to sit down in it is the Riker Maneuver, while Captain Picard pulling down on the top half of his uniform is the Picard Maneuver, lol!
Excellent! 😂
Great interview
It was nice to see that he did this interview with one of my hometown news stations, and for such a great cause. Pancreatic cancer is definitely devastating as Mr. Frakes mentions because I still remember, back while I was still in high school, seeing actor Michael Landon share his own diagnosis on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and dying a just a few months after going public. And to give you a clue of how aggressive Landon's cancer had to have been, his appearance on the Tonight Show was in May and he looked and seemed as strong and vital as he was on Highway to Heaven. By the start of July, he was gone. I also remember when Parick Swayze went public with his diagnosis. He gave a good fight, continuing to work and act while battling his cancer. The one strike for him though was he couldn't shake his smoking habit, which he admitted might have played a large part in his cancer diagnosis. The tabloids at the time were absolutely merciless, constantly pushing out stories and headlines every month of the almost two years he survived beyond his diagnosis that he was on his last legs and about to die at any moment. The mean-spiritedness of it all is exactly why I never liked tabloids and absolutely despise tabloid shows and show segments. I'm so glad Armin Shimerman's wife has survived this insidious cancer for 20 years and counting.
His younger brother died of pancreatic cancer. This is why he is so involved.
Plus:
He is from Pennsylvania, Not Chicago. "Chicago's very own" is the catchphrase for WGN
.But we will claim him if he wants us :)
@@daTribbleMaker I know about his brother. And I didn't say he was from Chicago. If you go back and reread my comment, you'll see that I quite clearly said the interview was done in MY hometown, not his. So quite obviously I know WGN's catchphrase very well thanks. You might want to make sure you've read things all the way through the next time the impulse to correct strikes you. 😂😂
@@jawanzamarsh3867 OK WILL DO!!! 1 I did misread your post I just reread that. So I will give you that. However I didn't know you knew about his brother as you didn't mention it. Also, what's with the snarkiness tone in your reply there buddy? I was only trying to "correct" you because I swore I had read "his". But hey either I am 100 percent wrong(which is possible since I am looking at your post and that morning I was on 38 hours no sleep-insomnia no excuse, just providing my state of mind lol)) or you have some backdoor top secret way to edit without showing you edit (which you may) but for probabilities 93% sure I read it wrong. So I can admit a mistake. But the snarkiness I don't get, cause I wasn't rude in thee slightest, though I was being protective in the way US CHICAGOANS ARE when someone not from here(west side, no jokes lol) does when someone errs on us. which I again didn't see "my" and when I thought was "his, Which is why at the end I said WE will take him if he wants US!!!!
(HA !! Couldn't do that again if I tried.. if you see it admire it!!!)
Else my reply would have just been about Frakes brother, which was for context since you didn't mention and I am not a mind reader lol.. anyway all good thanks for bringing it to my attention for realz.
I remember him on The Waltons. I love this guy.
Frakes. Legend.
One of the best long-form interviews with Jonathan Frakes can be found on the Shuttlepod Show channel (alongside interviews with many other Star Trek alumni).
"this segments gotta be better, and we're talking about cancer!" Lmao
It’s weird for me to hear him talk about his wife and not meaning Marina Sirtis.
He often refers to himself as 'Genie Francis ' husband '.
Jonathan frakes getting onto a chair is pretty much him climbing on a horse, I always knew he was a cowboy.
Did you see the crossover Strange New World's cross over with Lower Decks.. I will not give any spoilers but it's cattle rustling time and hysterical. love that episode.
@@daTribbleMaker I generally can’t see strange new worlds. I wish I could. I’m lucky sometimes if I can see it on a certain site that’s just the way it is so I don’t mind if you give spoilers but yeah, the way he goes over a chair. I am not kidding you mind you I used to do that when I was a kid until I was told to stop doing that. It was very unladylike and I was wearing a dress at the time so I can see where they were getting it but my dresses were always long and fluffy. If you know what I mean, you know, wearing dresses at the time eventually I got pants I got pants. I did not wanna wear dresses anymore then and then I screwed that up and I will not say how but now you can’t get me into pants generally because they’re not convenient when you are physically handicap like me.
There is no better guy in showbiz than Jonathan 2 Takes Frakes. The best! We are lucky to have him in the Trek universe.
My favorite aunt died of pancreatic cancer, leaving a real vacuum in our family.
My favorite vacuum died of pancreatic family, leaving a real aunt in our cancer...
That sucks.
Pancreatic cancer doesn't easily show symptoms, and it's deep inside the body. The surgery requires to work around a lot of organs, sometimes part of an intestine is removed. Removing the whole tumor is a challenge.
The tumors grow pretty fast; once the trouble starts to critical trouble that half year timeline of tumor growth sounds about right.
Having it happen at age 41is unusual.
"Tumors grow pretty fast..if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.." -Ferris Bueller, MD
Star Trek is the best thing that Humanity has ever done
He's not on the Enterprise doing his duties, very naughty
A similar event did take place
That'd be sweet if he did a Jack Sparrow impression.
Look... ADD CONTEXT to the title. I thought something bad had happened to my twin. Not good clickbait. Not good at all.
Captain, please don't mess up Starfleet Academy like y'all did Discovery 😢😢