The captain of the USS Drake and an Academy friend of William Riker, whose ship was destroyed at Minos and whose image is used by a Minosian weapon in The Arsenal of Freedom.
Paul Rice was a Starfleet captain and a friend of William Riker from their Academy days. Riker had been offered command of the USS Drake but chose the first officer's post on the Enterprise instead, and the Drake went to Rice.
In the first-season episode The Arsenal of Freedom, set in 2364, the Drake has vanished while investigating the silence of the arms-dealing planet Minos, and the Enterprise is sent to find it. On the surface Riker meets what looks like Rice, but the figure only presses him for details of his ship and its armament.
Riker feeds it nonsense and the image is revealed as a projection created by an automated Minosian weapon system gathering intelligence. The real Rice and his crew were killed by the same system.