1986. open casting call for the part of William Thomas Riker for a new television show, Star Trek: the Next Generation. robin williams shows up to audition, coked up and sweaty and very happy. he bounces around, trying to give brent a high-five and rubbing patrick’s chest. “aye captain yes captain!!” he chirps every time anyone tries to read a line, then leaps across the room to do something funny and unexpected using a common everyday item as a prop. gene roddenberry leans in and whispers to denise crosby: “show me you can be a security chief and get this zany piece of shit out of here.” robin williams wakes up hours later in a dumpster with a broken collarbone, and denise crosby is cast as tasha yar
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