Allegedly a back injury is behind the maneuver. From a post on Reddit and confirmed by Wil Wheaton. Scroll down the Reddit post to find the section pasted below. The reply from user 'wil' is Mr. Frakes had a back injury, caused by having a job moving furniture. The result is the "Riker Lean," where you often see him on set leaning on chairs or consoles, or with one leg propped up on something.
You can also see his body is tilted a little when he's standing up straight. I'd guess this has something to do with that. For each time we see him sit down, he probably had to do that same move dozens of times for each take. Just lifting one leg and sitting right down was probably easier for him than turning, contorting his back, and squatting down over and over.
It's the same thing with the Riker Lean: he probably had no problem standing up for a few minutes, but shooting that show probably resulted in standing on set for hours on end. Dude had to find a way to work around his injury by leaning on things, or he wouldn't have made it. Could be worse, I suppose I know everyone thinks it's because of his back, but he says in a podcast that it started as a joke and he knew it was good and he had to keep doing it.
Q: There was a recent video that went around, called "Riker Sits Down". Frakes: That, at one point in one room there was this chair that had virtually no back, like sort of a stool with a mini-back and because I'm 6'4'', I'm able to mount it like a horse And now I'm so grateful that it's become a thing.
Frakes: Usually if you got a 'bit' like that in early, no-one could steal it from you. Q: Oh, so you knew it was a funny thing when you were doing it?
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Viewed k times. Improve this question. And while the Mary Sue has posted about this marvel before , we had not explored the reasons behind it. Frakes had a back injury, caused by having a job moving furniture. For each time we see him sit down, he probably had to do that same move dozens of times for each take. Just lifting one leg and sitting right down was probably easier for him than turning, contorting his back, and squatting down over and over. Source: I served on the Enterprise with Riker for 5 years.
Happy 30th anniversary, TNG. Fans subsequently dubbed these two characteristics "The Riker Chair Maneuver" and "The Riker Lean" respectively, and have been poking fun at Riker's odd way of sitting for years, even occasionally organizing "Riker Chair Mounting" contests at fan conventions in an attempt to copy The Riker Chair Maneuver specifically.
While the maneuver is certainly amusing to watch, it has a slightly more serious real-world explanation. According to a thread on Reddit, actor Jonathan Frakes has an old back injury that he sustained years before Star Trek: The Next Generation , which caused him to have to modify the way he sits.
This means that both The Riker Chair Maneuver and The Riker Lean are likely more comfortable for him than just sitting down normally, especially when multiple takes of a scene would have required Frakes to stand up and sit down numerous times. Source: I served on the Enterprise with Riker for 5 years. While Frakes himself has never addressed the injury directly, he did additionally comment on The Riker Chair Maneuver during a recent live commentary session for a screening of Star Trek: First Contact.
During the commentary, Frakes explained that because the chairs on the TNG set usually had very low backs, it was easy to employ the maneuver to throw his leg over them.
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