What Happened Lieutenant Riker

Thomas Riker did reappear in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3 episode “Defiant”. … Thomas finally surrendered and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in a Cardassian labor camp. Star Trek never revealed Thomas Riker’s fate and whether or not he survived DS9’s Dominion War.

What happened to Lieutenant Thomas Riker?

By 2399, he was the commanding officer of the USS Opaka and was killed on Christmas Day of the same year after failing to kill Kai Weyoun 5.

Why did Riker grow beard?

Jonathan Frakes grew the beard during the hiatus before TNG’s second season as he dislikes shaving. He returned to rehearsal before shaving it. The producers liked the change and asked him to keep the beard, although a fictional reason was not given until five years later.