With miscarriage not an uncommon occurrence, the medical professionals on the Once on the surface, Troi and the rest of the away team became invited permanent guests of the Caeliar, and a similar message was delivered to Captain Riker and the Also in 2381 Will and Deanna have their first child, named To tackle the question of Bashir, and what really had happened with the Andorian crisis, Riker assigned Christine Vale to command the medical ship, Following the arrest of President Ishan Anjar, both Riker and Admiral Akaar tried once again to convince Captain Picard to accept promotion to the admiralty but was once again turned down by Picard.


Riker was born on April 15, 2335 in Valdez, Alaska in continental North America on planet Earth, the son of Kyle and Elizabeth Laura 'Betty' Riker. His father resented him saying that, and it led to an argument. Also in 2381 Will and Deanna have their first child, named Natasha Miana Riker-Troi. Before leaving Romulan space, Riker assisted Romulan Commander After returning from SMC space, Riker chose the Vulcan phrase In Riker's first mission, he brokered an agreement between a race of galactic hunters called the Pa'haquel (who believed that they were protecting the galactic ecology by hunting down and killing hostile Cosmozoan species), and the intelligent Star-jellies (who objected to be hunted and their corpses defiled), whom Riker and Troi first encountered at Deneb IV, on their first mission on the The Gum Nebula apparently served as a breeding ground for cosmozoan species such as the Star-Jellies, the Crystalline Entities or Branchers, a living Sometime in mid-2380, Will and Deanna attempted to conceive a child through natural means. It was not until Will's rescue of Deanna from Sindareen Raiders whom had taken her captive that they each gave into their mutual passion under a waterfall in Betazed's isolated Unfortunately, the rejected Riker had drowned out his sorrows with a bottle of Deanna found the two of them in bed together, and realized that Riker was not ready for the kind of relationship that she needed from him. He also visited an aquapark where he enjoyed riding the hydrotubes. IKS Will and Deanna finally resumed their romantic relationship in 2375 after feeling the rejuvenating effects of the metaphasic radiation inherent to the adopted homeworld of the Ba'ku. One of the speakers at his graduation ceremony was The teenage Riker's first serious love relationship was with a gorgeous Russian ballet dancer, Paula Andropova, who was old enough to be his mother. They parted amicably a few days later at a Betazed museum as the Riker attempted a reconciliation by arranging a date with Deanna a few years later on Risa while on temporary assignment to the When Riker received his rank of lieutenant commander, he was commissioned to the Riker developed a close father-son relationship with Picard. Little did he know the Q had a particular impact to his family.

Among other things, Picard taught the younger man fencing.

He spent three days trapped, lying in mud with giant leeches feeding on him, before being rescued (While at the Academy, Will and a fellow cadet once re-programmed a During Will's third year at the Academy, he developed a relationship with The teenage Riker's first serious love relationship was with a gorgeous As Will was getting ready to graduate from the Academy, he had an opportunity to fill an Will's first assignment as a Starfleet officer was a posting as an Ensign aboard the On Will's first day on Betazed, he was asked to be the Federation's presence at the wedding of the Over the weeks that followed, Will pursued Deanna with only limited success.
However this event led to him making peace with Darrin Kane, an arrogant young Ensign who had been trying to use his family connections to damage Riker's reputation and relationship with Picard, due to his resentment that Riker was not helping his career to progress faster. Also in 2369, Riker met himself again, this time in the form of a duplicate created by a transporter accident in 2361. Riker's mother died when he was two years old. (PIC Shortly afterwards, Riker temporarily left retirement to command the At some point in this century, Will was an admiral with three grandchildren. The former governor had taken his military underground, and was leading an increasingly bitter resistance movement against the new Tezwan government and the Federation "occupation". He spent three days trapped, lying in mud with giant leeches feeding on him, before being rescued. Riker's mother died when he was two years old. Deanna found the two of them in bed together, and realized that Riker was not ready for the kind of relationship that she needed from him. In that year he was promoted to rear admiral, serving as adjutant to Fleet Admiral Leonard James Akaar, the commander-in-Chief of the Federation Starfleet.

Though Riker enjoyed the shore leave (which he spent mountain climbing on a planet that resembled Alaska), he resented being forced to leave the In 2368, Riker received a strange visitor in the form of When the timeline had been restored, Admiral Riker was restored to his proper time. He soon found the beard was extremely popular with the ship's female crew members. Will's best friend growing up was named Jackson Carter, whom Will nicknamed "Squibby". By that time, Riker had left active service in Starfleet, although he remained in reserve as needed, and settled on the planet Nepenthe. Although she required hormonal treatments to improve fertility which had the side effect of weakening her psionic defenses, Deanna eventually became pregnant with child.