To read the narration for the show, Fox hired actor Jonathan Frakes, who had played the studly Commander Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Frakes knew he wasn’t their first choice, he told me. “Patrick [Stewart] turns all this shit down….” he joked. “Because I’m such a whore, I took this, and the producer hired me for another couple of jobs.” Alien Autopsy wound up steering Frakes into a fresh revenue stream as a narrator for paranormal shows, and in time, a starring role playing himself on the WB drama Roswell. With medium pride, he described Alien Autopsy as “if not the first of its
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