THOMAS RIKER

In the fictional Star Trek universe, 'William Thomas "Tom" Riker', played by Jonathan Frakes, is a duplicate of William Riker created by a transporter accident when Riker served as second officer aboard the USS ''Potemkin''. The duplicate goes by their middle name (and, later, "Tom") to distinguish himself from "Will".
Thomas Riker first appears in '''s "Second Chances", when the ''Enterprise''-D crew travels to Nervala IV, the site of the transporter accident. The crew discovers that while William Riker beamed aboard the ''Potemkin'' and continued his career, a duplicate Riker was unable to return to the ship and rematerialized in that planet's abandoned Starfleet outpost. Thomas largely attributes his ability to remain sane during his isolation to thoughts of reuniting with his at-the-time beloved Deanna Troi.
Tom serves aboard the USS ''Gandhi'' before leaving Starfleet to aid the Maquis. At some point, he shaved his sideburns and wears his beard as a goatee. In '''s "Defiant", he leads a Maquis mission to steal the USS ''Defiant'' from Deep Space Nine. Commander Benjamin Sisko helps the Cardassians capture the ship and its crew on the condition that the ''Defiant'' be returned to Starfleet and that Tom Riker not be executed.

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In John Vornholt's novel ''Quarantine'' (part of the Double Helix series), Riker transfers to the sciences division after a conflict with the USS ''Gandhi's first officer. He wears a blue uniform and serves as a medical courier pilot. It is in this function that he ends up leaving Starfleet and falling in with Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres' Maquis unit. According to ''Quarantine'', it was Chakotay's idea to steal the Defiant from Deep Space 9.
In the game '', Tom is rescued in a mission during the Dominion War and appointed to command an advanced battleship, the ''Achilles'' class USS ''Imperius''. A later mission in the Dominion campaign requires the player to destroy the ''Imperius'' before Riker can take command and, if possible, destroy Riker's current ship (a ''Galaxy'' class starship).
In Peter David's novel '', he is sprung from a Cardassian prison camp by Romulans led by Sela and forced to attempt to assassinate Klingon Emperor Kahless and Chancellor Gowron.
In Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens novel series '', Riker is freed from the camp by a species called the Grigari and joins them in an attack on the Alpha Quadrant.

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