Top 10 Reasons Why Riker Won't Shave
- Hopes his beard will draw attention away from his constant silly smile.
- He and Worf are having a beard-growing contest.
- It helps hide the faint, hereditary birthmark on his chin that proves he's a werewolf.
- Hopes to look scarier to hostile aliens.
- Starfleet has bridge personnel hair quotas and he's trying to make up for Picard.
- He thinks Troi finds it sexy.
- Didn't trust himself to pick up a can of shaving cream because the temptation to go and spray it at Wesley was too great (seasons 2 to mid-4 only).
- Wants to look more like his hero, Ming the Merciless.
- Every time he does, Q makes his beard grow back in five minutes as a gag.
- Picard won't let him fire up his photon blade.