- cross-posted to:
- risa@startrek.website
- cross-posted to:
- risa@startrek.website
Better place for discussion I suppose
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*Geordi.
Burton directed over two dozen episodes across the Trek franchise. While Frakes is more prolific, ironically Burton directed my two favorite Riker episodes, "Second Chances" and "The Pegasus".
Thank you for the correction. I'm rather ashamed of that one.
Unless they are filled with trilithium resin, because you have to be really bad at your job to miss a planet.
Oh man, could you imagine how much better that episode would have been if Worf had intentionally missed, looked at Sisko, and shrugged?
Trek actively gave opportunities to its actors in the TNG-VOY era to learn and try directing. The number of Main Cast actors who've got directing credits is pretty significant. The full list, along with the episodes they directed, is here: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cast_members_who_directed
Of the TNG cast though, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden and Patrick Stewart all have at least one director's credit in the series. Michael Dorn would also later do some DS9 and ENT episodes.