Summary
Star Trek: Picardseason 3’s reunion ofStar Trek: The Next Generation’s actors sadly can’t happen with 3Star Trekcasts. AfterStar Trek: Picardseasons 1 and 2 focused on new characters teaming up with Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), as well asStar Trek: Voyager’s Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan),Star Trek: Picardseason 3’s showrunner, Terry Matalas, wanted tobring back the entire main cast ofTNG. The result wasStar Trek: Picard’s most acclaimed season, as the united crew of the USS Enterprise-D saved the United Federation of Planets and defeated the Borg once and for all.
Star Trek: Picardseason 3’s reassembledStar Trek: The Next Generationcastalso delivered nostalgia while updating where each USS Enterprise-D member was in their lives decades afterTNGended. Naturally,Picard’s widely popularTNGreunion sparkedfan interest in seeing otherStar Treklegacy casts come back together.Some have the potential to:Star Trek: Voyager’s cast is still active and many have joined Kate Mulgrew’s Admiral Kathryn Janeway in Netflix’s animatedStar Trek: Prodigy. Another crew fans want to see make a comeback isStar Trek: Enterprise. While someStar Treklegacy actors have moved on fromStar Trekor from acting, there is still potential for them to return. Unfortunately, 3Star Trekcasts can’t ever fully reassemble because of actors who have sadly passed away.
How To Watch All Star Trek TV Shows In Timeline Order
The Star Trek TV franchise has existed for 57 years and consists of 12 shows (and counting). Here’s how to watch them all in timeline order.
3Star Trek: The Original Series Cast
William Shatner, George Takei, and Walter Koenig have outlived their cast mates
Star Trek: The Original Series' castfirst came together in 1966 and set the gold standard for what has become a nearly 60-year legacy ofStar Trektelevision series and movies. Together, the originalStar Trekcast played the iconic crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 for 3 seasons ofTOSand 6Star Trekmovies. The last time the original crew shared the screen together was in 1991’sStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.Today, a full Star Trek:TOSreunion is impossible becausemost of the cast has passed away.
Star Trek’s original cast is now the stuff of legend.
William Shatner is still going strong at 93 years old, and George Takei and Walter Koenig are thankfully still with us. However, DeForest Kelley passed away in 1999, followed by James Doohan in 2005. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry joined her late husband,Star Trekcreator Gene Roddenberry, in 2008. We lost Leonard Nimoy in 2015, and Nichelle Nichols also passed away in 2022.Star Trek’s original cast is now the stuff of legend.
Although William Shatner hasn’t portrayed Captain James T. Kirk since 1994’sStar Trek Generations,the character lives on in a younger version played by Paul Wesley inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. In fact,Star Trek: The Original Series' characters found a new lease on life in J.J. Abrams' rebootedStar Trekmovies.Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis gradually reintroducing theTOScast,with only Dr. Leonard McCoy, Hikaru Sulu, and Pavel Chekov yet to be seen in Paramount+’s prequel.
2Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Cast
Rene Auberjonois and Aron Eisenberg have passed away
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s castassembled in 1993 as the first spinoff ofStar Trek: The Next Generation. Main characters like Michael Dorn’s Lt. Commander Worf joinedDS9while others, like Terry Farrell’s Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax, left the series. Still,Star Trek: Deep Space Nineis heralded for having the most expansive and exotic cast of anyStar Trekseries, with numerous ancillary characters so well-written and so popular, that they were able to carry their own episodes.
Nicole de Boer joinedStar Trek: Deep Space Nineseason 7 as Lt. Ezri Dax to replace Terry Farrell’s Jadzia Dax, who was killed off when she left the show.
WhileStar Trek: Deep Space Nineis at the top of fans' lists for a comeback, a full cast reunion is now, sadly, impossible. In 2019, bothAron Eisenberg, who played Nog, and Rene Auberjonois, who played Constable Odo, passed away.We also lost Louise Fletcher, who portrayed the diabolical Kai Winn, in 2022. In addition, Avery Brooks,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Captain Benjamin Sisko, has retired from acting and distanced himself fromStar Trek, although hope remains he could be coaxed back to play Captain Sisko again.
Fans still hold out hope that the remaining Star Trek: Deep Space Nine cast can come back.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s 2019 retrospective documentary,What We Left Behind, reassembled the show’s writing team to conjecture whatDS9season 8 could be like. Their ideas brought back everyone, including Nog, Odo, and Captain Sisko.Unfortunately, such a reunion can’t happen today. However, fans still hold out hope that theremainingStar Trek: Deep Space Ninecastcan come back, be it in a live-action event or in animation.
1J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Movie Cast
RIP Anton Yelchin
J.J. Abrams achieved a miracle when hecastStar Trek(2009). Conventional wisdom held that it would be impossible to find actors to embody and replace William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and the cast ofStar Trek: The Original Series. With ingenious casting choices, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, andStar Trek(2009)’s cast brought new life, youth, and vitality to the iconic crew of the Starship Enterprise. Abrams’Star Trekcast matured into their roles in the sequels, 2013’sStar Trek Into Darknessand 2016’sStar Trek Beyond.
Star Trek 4 Is “Forever Tainted” But Simon Pegg Would Love To Do It
Simon Pegg wants to return for Star Trek 4, but a USS Enterprise reunion wouldn’t be the same after the tragic loss of Anton Yelchin.
Nearly a decade afterStar Trek Beyondleft theaters, audiences and the actors still hopeStar Trek 4can bring one more voyage of the USS Enterprise. Tragically, J.J. Abrams’Star Trekcast will never be complete again. In 2016,Anton Yelchin lost his lifein a terrible accident.Star Trek Beyondwas dedicated to Yelchin’s memory, as well as to Leonard Nimoy, who passed away the previous year. Sofia Boutella’s Jaylah is a natural replacement for Ensign Chekov, who won’t be recast, butStar Trek 4, if it happens, will always be missing one of its key crew members.
