this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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The actor has some serious back problems and that weird way of getting into a chair is one of the ways he avoids triggering a flare up
Also Frakes is just really tall so he can just do that
Slight correction, had back problems. He was in a car accident and had to sit like that until it healed. By the time it was healed everyone just expected him to sit like that.
Wil Wheaton confirmed the furniture-moving story: https://old.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/1dx9y7/riker_sits_down_always_with_the_leg_over_the/c9v52pj/?context=2
What makes you say it was a car accident?