Jonathan Frakes Actor Known as ‘Star Trek’s Captain Will Riker on Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Jonathan Frakes

Actor Known as ‘Star Trek’s Captain Will Riker on Shining a
Light During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month & Getting
Behind Camera for Upcoming Series “Star Trek: Starfleet

Academy”

November 26th, 2025 9:30-11:00am ET

PROMOTING: SHINING A LIGHT DURING PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS
MONTH. FOR INFO & TO DONATE, VISIT PANCAN.ORG

PROMOTING: DIRECTOR FOR ONE EPISODE OF ‘STAR TREK: STARFLEET
ACADEMY’, PREMIERING IN JANUARY ON PARAMOUNT PLUS

‘PAN-CAN’S PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH’: November is Pancreatic
Cancer Awareness Month and Pan-Can is educating about the risks and symptoms of the disease,
providing ways to honor survivors and those we’ve lost and offering ways to get involved and
give back. Notable individuals who have succumbed to pancreatic cancer in recent years include
“Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek, talk show host Jerry Springer, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, producer Quincy Jones, and U.S. Representative John Lewis, to name a few.

“STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY”: This upcoming series is the 12th in the ‘Star
Trek’ franchise. Set in the 32nd century, the far-future time period that was introduced in the
series ‘Star Trek: Discovery’, ‘Starfleet Academy’ follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets
in over a century as they come of age and train to be officers. Starring Holly Hunter.

JONATHAN FRAKES:
*Best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker on ‘Star Trek: The Next
Generation’, ‘Star Trek: Strange New World’, & ‘Star Trek: Picard’ + subsequent films & series.
*Directed while starring in ‘Star Trek: First Contact’, as well as ‘Star Trek: Insurrection’.
*Other TV credits include ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘Fantasy Island’, ‘The Waltons’,
‘The White Shadow’, ‘Eight is Enough’, Hart to Hart’, ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’, ‘Matlock’,
‘Quincy M.E.’, ‘Highway to Heaven’, ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘Matlock’, ‘Wings’, ‘Cybill’, ‘3rd Rock
From the Sun’, ‘Futurama’, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Hill Street Blues’, & Lois & Clark.
*Has directed more than 70 television episodes, including ‘Leverage’, ‘Castle’, ‘NCIS: Los
Angeles’, ‘Burn Notice’, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., several episodes of the ‘Star Trek’ television
series, & ‘The Orville’.
*Author of the novel ‘The Abductors: Conspiracy’.

*Worked for Marvel Comics in the 70s, appearing at conventions as Captain America.
*Jonathan is a spokesperson for PanCan.