Historic Trek main characters who've yet to appear in modern Trek:
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Ye I know she was in an episode but that's not enough for me and it was just animated.
Absolutely true. He gave his blessing to What We Left Behind, but didn’t want to be involved.
Unless there’s a seismic shift, sadly Avery seems to be done with Trek.
It almost feels like the DS9 characters decided not to be in any sequel and somehow this is a good thing
Lower Decks got most of the surviving cast, as we've seen Kira, Quark, Rom, Leeta, Bashir, and Garak now.
I think it's a defensible decision. The only reason I kind of hate it is Brooks explicitly changed the ending to imply he'd return to Kassidy to help raise their son. I feel like it should be said in canon that yes, he returned, to show he went through with it. Because leaving it hanging like this means some future writer might say "Actually no, the Emissary changed his mind, and just was a deadbeat dad after all."
i made a joke somewhere else about pulaski time traveling and running into muldaur's two TOS characters, just for the gag.
TOS/TAS
McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Rand, Jose Tyler, J.M. Colt (if the Colt in DIS was in fact different person), Phil Boyce, Arex, M’Ress
TNG
Tasha Yar/Sela, Pulaski, O’Brien
After, its recurring roles like Barclay, Robin Lefler, Alexander, Admiral Nechayev & Gowron. One offs like Jenna D’Sora, or background characters like Jae. Even then, Q, Hugh, Sonya Gomez, Leah Brahms and Rachel Garrett have been seen in modern Trek. Not sure who’s left.
DS9
Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kasidy Yates-Sisko, Miles O’Brien, Keiko O’Brien, Ezri, Jadzia
Even if they cannot get Benjamin Sisko, they can still get Jake Sisko, Kasidy Yates and Sisko’s unborn child and address his return. Otherwise, Sisko’s return seems like a future OTOY short.
VOY
B’Elanna, Kes, Naomi are the only standouts
ENT
Archer, Hoshi, Phlox, Shran, Porthos, Chef
Trip was in VST as were Reed and Travis in non speaking roles (if it matters that they speak at all), and T’Pol’s been mentioned already. Whether we see these guys again depends on if SNW does a time travel episode to the early Federation era. Or if SNW actually wants to follow through on Archer being revealed as the identity of Future Guy.
McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Rand, Jose Tyler, J.M. Colt (if the Colt in DIS was in fact different person), Phil Boyce, Arex, M’Ress
TNG
Tasha Yar/Sela, Pulaski, O’Brien
After, its recurring roles like Barclay, Robin Lefler, Alexander, Admiral Nechayev & Gowron. One offs like Jenna D’Sora, or background characters like Jae. Even then, Q, Hugh, Sonya Gomez, Leah Brahms and Rachel Garrett have been seen in modern Trek. Not sure who’s left.
DS9
Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kasidy Yates-Sisko, Miles O’Brien, Keiko O’Brien, Ezri, Jadzia
Even if they cannot get Benjamin Sisko, they can still get Jake Sisko, Kasidy Yates and Sisko’s unborn child and address his return. Otherwise, Sisko’s return seems like a future OTOY short.
VOY
B’Elanna, Kes, Naomi are the only standouts
ENT
Archer, Hoshi, Phlox, Shran, Porthos, Chef
Trip was in VST as were Reed and Travis in non speaking roles (if it matters that they speak at all), and T’Pol’s been mentioned already. Whether we see these guys again depends on if SNW does a time travel episode to the early Federation era. Or if SNW actually wants to follow through on Archer being revealed as the identity of Future Guy.
Or just done with television in general. He's been in a few documentaries about things that are important to him, but they're one-offs, not shows that go on for years and years. Series television has an exhausting production schedule that is not kind to anyone involved. And he had a wife and children in New Jersey and probably didn't want to be away from them for extended periods of time. His wife's career is well-paid and Avery made pretty good money as a star for seven years, maybe they're just in a position to take only jobs that they feel like taking and pass on the ones that they don't. And if so, I can only be happy for them.
Naomi got name-dropped in LD and it was implied she was an up-and-comer. No word on how old she was supposed to be, developmentally speaking (as a part Ktarian, she aged faster than whole humans).
No love for Dr. Pulaski?
They can make it work if they wanted Jake for something. I remember reading an interview with Carrie Fisher when she came for Star Wars, and she was like on the first day of filming she was ready to quit because she was so bad, she didn't think she could do it anymore. But... they worked through it and it was fine.
I just... don't really see Jake Sisko coming back, unless they do a specific DS9-related project.
Dawson probably isn't going to come back, but I wouldn't totally discount it. They've definitely been in touch with her about things, it just seems like they haven't enticed her with the right project. If somebody had a really good idea, it MIGHT just happen.
I think if they did something like a full-on Voyager reunion show, they might be able to get her at least for a small role.
I'm pretty sure the whole cast would come back. Bakula would be the most difficult, but I also don't think it's impossible. I don't think you would get him for any kind of on-going series though. It would have to be more of an event/movie type thing.
Colm Meaney is another MAYBE, but unlikely. If they were able to get a really good story together that wasn't just "Hey look, it's DS9 people! Remember DS9?" It's going to get more unlikely as time goes on... he seems to think Star Trek is oversaturated, and Star Trek keeps on crapping out low quality content so... yeah.
I'm counting Harry Kim as well. We didn't see the prime universe version, just a bunch of duplicates. I would welcome an update on the status of the real deal... but I don't think it's going to happen. The LD solution seemed specifically geared to keeping the character in permanent limbo.
Pulaski was not main cast.
Seeing her again would still have been pretty cool.
I agree, but the point stands that since she wasn't main cast the previous statement about all TNG's main cast having been brought back besides Tasha Yar is an accurate one.
I'm not going to open yet another debate about modern Trek quality, but on the oversaturation point, I think he's probably right. I don't know just how much Trek can be supported in a streaming world, but I would think if they were going to do something significant with DS9, it would need some way to stand alone and distinguish itself. And I think that probably means some of the current Trek projects finishing first.
"Oversaturation" is a tough thing. I don't think Star Trek has quite hit that point yet personally. I would almost disagree and say Trek can thrive well in a streaming world. I do think that the more SNW-style episodic storytelling almost paradoxically works better. Streaming services need a... well... stream of content to stay relevant. I personally only have Paramount+ for Star Trek, and only have an active subscription to it when new Star Trek is airing.
I think they need to keep a steady stream of content, but they need to have a steady stream of content while simultaneously making it feel "fresh". It's an easy task, and it seems like Paramount is trying to do that. How WELL they're doing it up for debate.
I think the real problem in this specific context of finding a story significant enough to lure back someone like Colm Meaney is... what would be "significant" enough? What kind of story could be crafted that would necessitate a Deep Space 9 reunion while not drawing the ire of the "it's just fan service and nostalgia argle bargle!" crowd?
^ What needed to happen, which is probably impossible now, was to treat Star Trek as a "cinematic universe". Have a steady stream of content that builds on each other. The piecemeal and seemingly random Trek we've gotten just didn't do it. None of the shows effect each other at all. There's basically zero interconnectivity, even with DSC and SNW.
IIRC, Boimler said that Naomi was "like, 10 years old". Naomi is obviously older than that, since she was born during VOY's run. So I wouldn't really take anything LD says about her at face value.
LD takes place over 10 years after Voyager returned home, so I think we can assume that Naomi has already graduated from Starfleet Academy.. Hell, she probably already outranks Boimler.
Naomi Wildman is born in 2372
Voyager returns to the AQ in 2378
Lower Decks starts in 2380
The episode where she's mentioned takes place in 2382.
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