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The Federation

Crew of La Sirena

In general

• Breaking the Fellowship: By Season 3, Elnor is serving in Starfleet, Rios stayed behind to live in his life in the 21st century, Agnes had merged with an alternate version of the Borg Queen to create a Renegade Splinter Faction of them, and Soji is serving as an ambassador for her people. At the end, with Jean-Luc choosing to spend his time with his old crew when he can, only Seven and Raffi are left, as the captain and first officer of the Enterprise-G.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: So we have a retired Starfleet admiral, his drug-addicted former adjutant, a gruff former XO of a ship that (officially) no longer exists, an overly-anxious cyberneticist who was manipulated to be The Mole, and a naïve boy raised by warrior nuns. Picard himself describes his new crew as "decidedly motley."

Jean-Luc Picard

Admiral Jean-Luc Picard

Still bald. Still awesome.

Played by: Patrick Stewart

"I allowed the perfect to become the enemy of the good."

The lead character of the series and the former commander of the U.S.S. Stargazer and U.S.S. Enterprise-D and -E. He rose to the rank of admiral in the years after Star Trek: Nemesis, but has since left Starfleet in the wake of the synths' attack on Mars and Starfleet's refusal to aid the Romulans in the face of the supernova that would destroy their homeworld. At the start of the series, he has been tending his family's vineyard, Chateau Picard, for years.

For tropes relating to him in this series along with his prior appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation, please see his character page.

Dr. Agnes P. Jurati

Doctor Agnes Jurati

"I'm Agnes P. Jurati. I'm the Earth's leading expert on synthetic life."

Played by: Alison Pill

"Why do you like it out here [in space]? It's cold and empty and it wants to kill you."

A robotics scientist and former member of Starfleet who played a role in Federation research into cybernetics and androids. Her work came to a halt when the Federation banned synthetic lifeforms in the wake of the attack on Mars.

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• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: She listens to Kasseelian opera during her lunch break before Commodore Oh approaches her.
• The Atoner:
  • In "Nepenthe", she deliberately injects herself with noranium hydride, a neurotoxin, in order to neutralize the viridium tracker she has in her system.
  • In "Broken Pieces", after she meets Soji, she realizes that the dangers of the Admonition do not justify eliminating synthetics and those who create them, and she agrees to turn herself in to Starfleet for Maddox's murder.
  • In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", at Altan's suggestion, Agnes decides to continue Maddox's work to atone for killing him.
    Altan: You owe a great debt. Would you like the chance to repay it? To give a life instead of taking one?
    Jurati: Yes.
  • It's implied in "Mercy" that voluntarily becoming the Borg Queen and building a new, better and altruistic Collective is this.
• Bad Liar: She acknowledges that she's a terrible liar, which is why she told Commodore Oh everything about her conversations with Picard while she was being interrogated. She's also by far the worst at playing "normal" when the crew are shunted into an alternate timeline.
• Berserk Button: A bit of a subdued example, but after her Mind Rape, she does not like someone using the phrase "self-sacrifice."
• Broken Bird: Commodore Oh's mind-meld has led her down a path of anxiety, fear, murder, remorse and attempted suicide.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's got a lot of personality flaws and quirks, and acts more than a little anxious. But when the chips are down she repeatedly proves herself very resourceful and clever.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's last seen at the end of Season 2 as the new Queen of a benign Borg Collective, promising to stand guard at the mouth of the transwarp conduit that opened at the end of that season. Neither Jurati, her Collective, nor the portal and whatever threat was implied to be on the other side of it are seen again after that, and Season 3's stance on them, as articulated by Captain Liam Shaw appears to be, directly quoting, "forget all that weird shit."
• Commonality Connection:
  • "Maps and Legends" reveals that she shares Picard's fondness for Earl Grey tea.
    Picard: Your preference? We have a selection.
    Jurati: Earl Grey?
    Picard: (smiling) I knew there was something about you.
  • Also with the captive Borg Queen in "Penance."
    Borg Queen: You, you fragile teacup. You are accustomed to this feeling anywhere.
    Jurati: What feeling?
    Borg Queen: Unbelonging.
• The Cutie: She's the sole non-combatant crew member and the most emotionally fragile. She becomes the love interest of Rios.
• Drink-Based Characterization: She loves Earl Grey tea, just like Picard does. Although their personalities and interests are different, they're both intellectuals.
• Driven to Suicide: She synthesizes a potentially lethal compound and injects herself with it in an attempt to disable the Zhat Vash tracker that Commodore Oh had her ingest weeks earlier. While her primary goal was to kill the tracker, her actions and dialogue make it clear that surviving the ordeal is a secondary concern. After recovering in "Broken Pieces", she admits to Picard that she thinks of suicide every day as a coping mechanism.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite Jurati eventually admitting to her murder of Maddox, she faces no major punishment from the crew since they reason she was pressured into it. She's still allowed to freely move about the ship until she can be dropped off at Deep Space 12 to face a proper trial. During a scene in the season two premiere, she says that she got off the charge due to temporary insanity caused by alien influence; though she is clearly not happy about it and has taken to getting drunk.
• Fan of the Past: Much like Tom Paris, she enjoys 20th century science fiction like Isaac Asimov (i.e. the Trope Codifier for much of our current image of artificial intelligence).
• Fusion Dance: With the Borg Queen, seemingly permanently. As they put it in "Hide and Seek", "I think we are becoming something new."
• Genius Sweet Tooth: She's a cybernetics expert who loves red velvet cake with chocolate milk.
• Grand Theft Me: She spends a few episodes of Season 2 being puppeteered by the Borg Queen.
• Has a Type: She has a thing for bearded, older men; Maddox was her boyfriend, and she hooks up with Rios.
• Lady Drunk: She has taken to the bottle more than once and is drunk when she is on the bridge of the Stargazer.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine:
  • She's the light to Raffi's dark. Jurati is bubbly and talkative while Raffi is a brooding drug addict. Subverted, however, when Jurati proves to be less light than she seems.
  • Played to the hilt in Season 2 when she attracts the attention of the Borg Queen. After her assimilation, she very much adopts the dark feminine aesthetic.
• May–December Romance: She was romantically involved with Bruce Maddox, who at the time was old enough to be her grandfather.
• Mind Rape: Is the victim of this on more than one occasion. First: Agnes is the recipient of a variation of the Zhat Vash's admonition, courtesy of Commodore Oh's mind meld. Second: when she is partially assimilated by the Borg Queen and the Queen begins methodically moving through the "rooms" of Agnes' mind, to horrifying effect. And thirdly: when Agnes is assimilated once again by the Borg Queen as the latter is dying, eventually resulting in her Grand Theft Me.
• The Mole: She's working with the Zhat Vash to kill Maddox and his android creations because Zhat Vash showed her something that convinced her that they needed to die for the greater good.
• Motor Mouth: She talks a lot (and gets on Rios' nerves in the process). It's apparently her way of coping with the stress of the mission.
• Nervous Wreck: She's prone to freaking out in situations that would be mundane to other characters.
  • In "Stardust City Rag", she panics at the mere idea of having to use the transporter console to beam up her crewmates. Her pulse and blood pressure are so elevated that they automatically activate the EMH, who asks her, "What is the nature of your psychiatric emergency?" She hyperventilates when Emil offers to give her a sedative.
  • In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", when La Sirena is turbulently traversing a transwarp conduit, she's the only one hiding in her cabin under a desk and anxiously mumbling, "Be over, be over, be over..." while everyone else is on the bridge enjoying the ride.
• Non-Action Guy: She's the only member of Picard's ragtag crew with zero combat experience. When Rios instructs her to punch the holographic robot ad that's "attacking" her in order to turn it off, she lampshades:
  Jurati: I don't hit things!
• Parental Substitute: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", Altan tells the androids that Jurati is the closest thing to a mother that they'll ever know.
  Sutra: A mother would die for her children. Would you? I will know if you're lying.
  Jurati: Yes.
  Sutra: Good.
• Oh, Crap!: She displays a shocked reaction upon Picard showing her Dahj's necklace. It causes her to realize that Bruce Maddox's work on cybernetics finally succeeded.
• Stepford Smiler: Her bubbly, talkative act on La Sirena is a mask that hides how messed-up she has been ever since Commodore Oh showed her the Admonition and made her The Mole for Zhat Vash.
• Sweet Tooth: In "Nepenthe", she binges on two big slices of cake, takes a bite out of a third, and accepts chocolate milk when it's being offered before she throws up (although that might be more from stress rather than what she ate).
• These Hands Have Killed:
  • When a Zhat Vash death squad storms Chateau Picard, she arrives just in time to shoot the last of them with a disruptor that one of the assassins had dropped. When Laris informs her that Romulan weapons do not have a stun setting, Agnes is clearly horrified and has to take a few minutes to compose herself.
  • After she murders Maddox, it's patently clear she's no longer the same person she was before, and she's even more of a mess than when she killed the Romulan agent.
• Took a Level in Badass: She takes quite a few levels as part of her character arc in season two. Among them getting one over on the Borg Queen and culminates with her becoming the new Borg Queen and founder of a new altruistic Collective that saves billions of lives from a new unknown threat.
• Two Beings, One Body: She spends the episode "Two of One" with the Borg Queen living in her head, before the situation degenerates into a Grand Theft Me.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She tells Commodore Oh about her conversation with Picard, which is enough for the commodore to send a wetwork squad after him. Agnes is distraught when she realizes this, although Picard doesn't hold it against her.
  • It is later revealed, however, that Oh had shown Agnes via a mind-meld the Zhat Vash's secret. This convinced her of the need to destroy both Maddox and his creations, and that the wetwork squad was only sent there to die to establish her cover.
• The Watson: Since she has little (if any) experience in space, she needs Picard, Raffi, and Rios to explain things to her, thus providing the audience with the necessary backstory.

Raffaela Musiker

Commander Raffaela "Raffi" Musiker

"Those aren't connections I just see, like people see angels or ghosts. I have evidence."

Played by: Michelle Hurd

A former Starfleet intelligence officer and past colleague of Picard.

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• Addled Addict: We learn more of her backstory in "Stardust City Rag." When she falls prey to drug addiction after she's fired from Starfleet, she ends up neglecting her son and her husband to such a high degree that they kick her out of the house, which is why we see her living alone in a modest cabin at theVasquez Rocks in her introductory scene.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: She plays the Vulcan game kal-toh with Seven of Nine.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: She breaks down crying and tells Picard she loves him in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" when she thinks she'll never see him again.
• The Alcoholic: She's a heavy drinker, and she even jokes (or not) that she's planning to drink herself to death.
• Amicable Exes: She and Seven break up between seasons 2 and 3. When the two wind up working together again, it's a bit awkward (as Worf points out), but they're able to keep cool heads and work together. By the end of the series, they're on much friendlier terms as Seven becomes Captain of the Enterprise-G and Raffi becomes the First Officer, though they're not able to get back together again due to Starfleet's fraternization policy.
• Big Damn Kiss: With Seven in the season 2 finale.
• Conspiracy Theorist: her paranoid and addictive personality, combined with the vast amounts of data she picks up from Starfleet, has apparently led her down some rabbit holes a more stable person would disregard.
• Despair Event Horizon: After she was laid off by Starfleet, she became a substance abuser consumed by paranoia who neglected her family. She remains an alcoholic and a druggie fourteen years onward, and she's still estranged from her son.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • She's apparently spent a lot of the last fourteen years drinking heavily and smoking some kind of narcotic called snakeleaf in order to cope with her dismissal from Starfleet.
  • She falls into this trope in its more classic sense of "excessive alcohol" after her son refuses to reconcile with her on Freecloud. She is, however, coherent enough to get Picard credentials for access to the Reclamation Project.
    • Soon after that, she seems to impose withdrawal on herself, having locked alcoholic drinks of every sort from her replicator program and her authorization to unlock them. She also seems to have forgotten doing this, since she later tries to order burgundy or red wine from the computer and is annoyed when she realizes what she's done.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending 16 years estranged from her family and left disgraced, drunk, and going through heartbreak despite all of her sacrifices, she's able to finally be with her loved ones again when Worf leaks out her service record in the wake of her actions in saving Starfleet from The Borg. After that, she's given the prestigious position of the Enterprise-G's First Officer.
• Foil:
  • She and Picard are former Starfleet officers who have ignored a son figure (Gabriel Hwang and Elnor, respectively) for many years, and when they finally reunite with them, the outcome is very different. Raffi does apologize for her neglect of Gabriel and hopes that she can spend time with her son, whereas Picard doesn't apologize for his abandonment of Elnor and requests that his surrogate son be part of his crew. Raffi and Picard then receive a Calling the Old Man Out speech from Gabriel and Elnor. Gabriel remains incredibly bitter at his mother, so he shuts down any possibility of a reconciliation. Elnor at first rejects his father figure's offer, but changes his mind when the latter's life is in danger; his love for Picard overcomes his resentment. Raffi is still cut off from her son, but Picard gets his surrogate son back.
  • In Season 3, she's presented as one to Worf, or at least the man he used to be during TNG. As noted by the Klingon, Raffi was reckless, angry, as much a skilled warrior as he was, and estranged from her family. Unlike Raffi, Worf had tempered himself into a warrior at peace with himself, which his time mentoring her as her handler in Starfleet Intelligence allowing her to somewhat do the same.
• The Hermit: She lives in a modest yet fully self-sufficient house by Kirk's Rock, and wants nothing to do with Picard or anyone else. Picard only gets her to be social by providing evidence of Romulan operatives on Earth, thus confirming her paranoia.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's the dark to Jurati's light. Raffi is a brooding drug addict while Jurati is bubbly and talkative. Subverted, however, when Jurati proves to be less light than she seems.
• Never My Fault: Specifically, everytime something goes bad in her life, it's Picard's fault.
• Non-Indicative Name: Coupled with Bilingual Bonus; her surname "Musiker" is German for "musician," and there's no indication that Raffi can play an instrument.
• Number Two: Season 2 shows her back in Starfleet and XO of U.S.S. Excelsior. The non-canon prequel comics for Picard depict her as Admiral Picard's first officer aboard the U.S.S. Verity after he transferred (or was promoted) from the Enterprise-E. She was eventually made the XO of the Enterprise-G under Seven of Nine.
• Odd Friendship: She slowly develops one with Worf during Season 3. While he thinks she's too close a reminder of the person he used to be, and she thinks he's a stubborn old man who talks too much, the two respect each other enough that they work together quite well, and help to expose the Dominion Conspiracy to let Starfleet be assimilated by the Borg. At the end of the series, he not so subtly implies he was the "maverick" who leaked her service record, wanting her to reconcile with her family.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her full first name isn't even revealed until the fifth episode.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • She apparently believed that there were Tal Shiar agents operating on Earth with the complicity of some elements of Starfleet long before she could prove it. She is, of course, entirely correct. She was also right that this conspiracy was responsible for the synth rebellion and the attack on Mars, despite Picard's belief that the Romulans wouldn't sabotage a fleet being built to rescue them.
  • When Jurati invites herself on Picard's mission, Raffi is annoyed at not getting a chance to at least run a background check on her. "Stardust City Rag" then proves that Raffi is entirely right to be concerned, as Jurati is The Mole for the Zhat Vash.
• Rank Up: Having been a Lieutenant Commander when she served under Picard, she's made a Commander by the time she takes the First Officer job on the Enterprise-G.
• Refuge in Audacity: She gets away with a lot of seemingly beyond the pale behavior by openly living in the extremity of the act. It's implied, for example, that her conduct that would have inspired a stern dressing down from a much younger Picard (such as calling him "JL," belittling him, and being overly emotional and physical with him) is permitted because she simply wore him down to tolerating it.
• The Scapegoat: Starfleet fired her after Picard resigned, apparently as blame for refusing to back down from their decision to call off the Romulan evacuation.
• The Smart Guy: She had formerly worked for Starfleet Intelligence, so she's the most analytical crew member. She does the information-gathering for the team and is The Strategist.
• Team Mom: Since she has nowhere else to channel her maternal instincts after being estranged from her son, she redirects them to a few members of La Sirena's crew. In "Nepenthe", she adopts a motherly role with Jurati after the latter undergoes a fit of anxiety, referring to herself as "Auntie Raffi" when she feeds the younger woman cake and chocolate milk. She insists that Soji take a phaser with her on their journey to Coppelius Station in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" to protect against various potential threats, chief among them a certain "asshole Romulan ex." And in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Elnor is in grave distress over Picard's demise, so Raffi hugs him and permits the young man to weep while he's leaning on her chest.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She at first wants nothing to do with Picard, and only agrees to hear him out when she hears about the Romulan involvement. Even on the voyage, especially after Freecloud, she makes a habit of lashing out at basically everyone else.
• This Is Unforgivable!: After she was kicked out of Starfleet, Raffi spends all of her time trying to prove the Romulan conspiracy behind the Mars attacks that she alienates herself from her family, with both her ex-husband and son wanting nothing to do with her and her "crackpot conspiracies". Even when it's proven she was dead right, neither one of them are willing to forgive her for abandoning them so quickly. Her son, at least, is willing to mend fences when Worf leaks her service record after the Borg threat is eliminated, showing her to be more of a hero than he ever knew.
• We Used to Be Friends: At least, friendly enough that Picard didn't mind her calling him "J.L." instead of "Admiral". When he resigned, however, she was fired and has been bitter ever since. They slowly mend their friendship over the course of the season, and are on far friendlier terms by the time the series ends.

Cristóbal Rios

Captain Cristóbal "Chris" Rios

The broody, existentialist spaceman.

Played by: Santiago Cabrera

"That's just my tragic sense of life."

A former Starfleet officer and XO of the heavy cruiser ibn Majid, now captain of the Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter La Sirena whom Picard recruits for his crew.

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• Ace Pilot: He demonstrates his topnotch starship piloting skills during his David Versus Goliath battle with Kar Kantar.
• Bar Brawl: Rios's ultimate fate has him dying defending medical supplies during one of these in the 21st century.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's basically Okona with competent writing, a cynical rogue who's nonetheless a fantastic pilot.
• The Captain: In season two, he's back in Starfleet and captain of the new U.S.S. Stargazer.
• Carpet of Virility: His Shirtless Scenes and the deep V-neck of his Freecloud disguise show that he has a hairy chest.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He sleeps with Agnes after knowing her for only a brief time, but makes it clear that she's in control and is only willing to go ahead when she tells him it will help; when she's hesitant at first, he asks about her feelings and shows no inclination to pressure her. He shows a lot of care and concern for her after he realises what's happened to her, including facing down Sutra when she tries to perform a mind meld, and the season ends with them in a relationship.
• Cigar Chomper: He enjoys smoking cigars, which adds to his "rough-around-the-edges" image. Even after being reinstated in Starfleet and given command of the Stargazer, he still smokes them on The Bridge.
• Commonality Connection: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he bonds with Seven of Nine over the broken promises they've made to themselves, and they're both hardened, pessimistic Anti Heroes.
• Dashing Hispanic: Chilean? Check. Tall, Dark, and Handsome? Check. Attractive to the ladies? Just ask Agnes and Teresa.
• Despair Event Horizon: He was discharged from Starfleet because he was diagnosed with post-traumatic dysphoria after he witnessed Captain Vandermeer, who was like a father figure to him, assassinate two people and then commit suicide. Nine years later, Rios still hasn't fully recovered from the trauma.
• Drink-Based Characterization:
  • In his first scene, he drinks a shot of aguardiente. If you had guessed that he's a rugged character, then you'd be right. His choice of beverage also alludes to his Latin American background because showrunner Michael Chabon affirms◊ that Rios is Chilean.
  • When he orders a Temtibi Lagoon on Freecloud with two umbrellas, it's the opposite of his "broody, existentialist spaceman routine" because he's pretending to be an ostentatious 'facer.
• Fan of the Past: He listens to oldies songs from the mid-20th century, such as when he's reading a book in "The End Is the Beginning" and "Absolute Candor." In "Broken Pieces", a vinyl record of Billie Holiday's "Solitude" is playing in his cabin while he reminisces about his time on the ibn Majid.
  • The 21st century, despite initially calling it a primitive past, has come to feel like home for Rios, factoring in his decision to remain in the past with Teresa and Ricardo.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He often lapses into Spanish, especially when he's cursing. He also banters with Emmet in Spanish.
• Hero-Worshipper: It's very subdued, but he quietly geeks out over having Picard on his ship, and even looks to him to give the order to "Engage." His ENH program is similarly excited to have Picard aboard, and tries to get a response from Rios on the matter.
• Hidden Depths: While he seems like nothing more than a brusque, no-nonsense pilot for hire, he has a library of books on existentialism, including Miguel de Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life, and Picard himself does a Sherlock Scan of La Sirena and suggests that despite his rakish image, he's still Starfleet to the core. Rios doesn't deny it, but he also tells Picard to stop trying to psychoanalyze him.
• I Choose to Stay: Having found a soulmate and purpose in Teresa Ramirez, Rios decides to stay in the 21st century and live his life there instead.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a "broody, existentialist spaceman" with a Dark and Troubled Past who can sometimes be terse, but he genuinely becomes Fire-Forged Friends with his crew and even falls in love with Agnes.
• Knight in Sour Armor: It's implied, anyway. Picard notes that he's "Starfleet to the core" despite his rakish manner, and his Emergency Navigational Hologram tries to whip up his enthusiasm for working with the legendary Jean-Luc Picard.
• The Lancer: He's the cynical mercenary Anti-Hero who contrasts Picard's altruistic Ideal Hero.
• Lovable Rogue: He's a former Starfleet officer striking out on his own and who doesn't really care about the law all that much. However, Picard notices that everything on Rios's ship is impeccably maintained to Starfleet standards, right down to every bolt, clasp and fitting. He then tells Rios that the latter may be out of Starfleet, but he's still Starfleet to the core.
• Major Injury Underreaction: We first meet him seemingly unbothered by a giant piece of shrapnel in his shoulder. He then splashes a shot of aguardiente (a high-proof drink) on the wound and barely hisses in pain.
• Manly Facial Hair: He sports a beard which conveys that he's a tough guy (he hardly winces at a large piece of shrapnel embedded in his shoulder, for instance) who can handle rough-and-tumble situations.
• Me's a Crowd: An interesting example, in that his ship is crewed only by himself and five holograms — and all of them look exactly like him, apparently because he "accidentally" chose the self-scan option when setting up the ship's systems. They do, however, have different accents and personalities, and one of them speaks Spanish.
  Emergency Hospitality Hologram: In general, the captain... keeps his own company.
• Mr. Fanservice: His introduction is a Shirtless Scene, and his gaudy outfit on Freecloud includes a deep V-neck which, strictly speaking, is not necessary for a flamboyant 'facer, but it's obviously there to provide some eye candy.
• Mythical Motifs: Mermaids. He has one tattooed on his arm, and, of course, the name of his ship, La Sirena translates to "The Mermaid." There are figurines and a framed art print of mermaids in his quarters.
• Neat Freak: Picard notes Rios keeps his ship in immaculate condition — every fitting is in place, every object is stowed and secured, and the place is clean to Starfleet standards.
• Noodle Incident:
  • We never find out the circumstances which led to his shrapnel shoulder injury. When Picard inquires about it, Rios merely replies, "I didn't die."
  • He doesn't elaborate beyond "It's a long story" when Jurati observes that the only holoprograms he has on-board are Klingon operas.
  • For some reason, he immediately recognizes the sound of someone throwing rocks at his ship.
• The Quiet One: He's not exactly chatty or social, preferring instead to quietly read Miguel de Unamuno or listen to Billie Holiday.
• Real Men Get Shot: He shrugs off what should be agonizing pain from a chunk of tritanium shrapnel lodged in his shoulder like it's an annoying mosquito bite. Not surprisingly, he's the most manly character in the main cast.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He's rugged and manly as well as more emotionally guarded, whereas Elnor is sensitive, having been raised by women and being open about his feelings.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He was traumatized by what happened aboard the ibn Majid, where his CO (whom he looked up to as a father figure) murdered two synths under a "black flag directive" from Starfleet Security (implied to be Commodore Oh or some other infiltrator) and then Ate His Gun in remorse.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: In Season 1, he drops the F-bomb thrice, which is the most for a single character in the Trek Verse to date. He also cusses in Spanish (e.g. ¡Puta madre!).
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's tall with dark brown hair and dashingly handsome in a manner which is typical of a gruff Lovable Rogue. Jurati finds him attractive and he becomes her boyfriend.
• Took a Level in Cynic: Following his departure from Starfleet after the death of his commanding officer and the total erasure from all records of the starship he served aboard.
• Unperson: Not him, but his old ship, the U.S.S. ibn Majid, was erased from all records by Starfleet. He's still bitter about it.

Elnor

Cadet Elnor

"Please, my friend. Choose to live."

Played by: Evan Evagora; Ian Nunney (as a child)

"Fight a Qowat Milat and the outcome is not in doubt."

A Romulan refugee who is a rare male disciple of the Qowat Milat. He's exceptionally skilled at hand-to-hand combat and is fiercely loyal to his father figure Picard.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: His tan qalanq (a sword used by the Qowat Milat) can slice a person's head off with a single stroke, and it's a very Clean Cut.
• The Ace: Zani, the leader of the Qowat Milat, describes him as the most formidable and skilled fighter of their order even if his gender means he can never truly be one of them.
• Agent Peacock: He's a Long-Haired Pretty Boy who's In Touch with His Feminine Side and who was raised by a sect of nuns, earning him the derogatory nickname "sisterboy." The Qowat Milat is also an order of warriors, and they have taught him very well. The first time we see him fight, Elnor knocks out two thugs and decapitates a third in about two seconds with his tan qalanq. His chief advantage in combat is his Super-Reflexes, so he's gifted with the very rare talent in the Trek Verse to avoid multiple projectiles, which means Guns Are Worthless against him and any firefight becomes a Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight scenario that he deftly wins. No matter how bloody the confrontation is, Elnor always looks fabulous ^note Evan Evagora is a former model because his wavy tresses are never out of place, he never gets bruised or scratched, he never gets stained, and he never breaks a sweat.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: As a child, he's delighted when Picard brings him a copy of The Three Musketeers and teaches him how to fence.
• All of the Other Reindeer:
  • He feels out of place among his fellow Romulans, who contemptuously label him as a "sisterboy" because he grew up among nuns. Even within the Qowat Milat monastery that he calls home, his gender sets him apart because the order only accepts women.
    Picard: It can't be easy being the only boy in a house of women. [Elnor] must get lonely sometimes.
    Zani: Yes. He is loved, but he does not belong with us.
  • Narissa, who treats Elnor as a Category Traitor because of his affiliation with the Qowat Milat, doesn't even consider him to be a proper Romulan because she refers to him as a freak to one of her underlings.
• The Apprentice: He learned hand-to-hand combat skills from the Qowat Milat nuns. Zani informs Picard in "Absolute Candor" that Elnor had completed his training last spring, but he cannot join their order because he's a man. According to showrunner Michael Chabon, Elnor worked very hard to earn and deserve his sword.◊
• Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: He carries a tan qalanq, a Romulan sword, instead of any kind of energy weapon, thanks to his training by the Qowat Milat warrior nuns. "Absolute Candor" proves that he's lethal with it, and although another Romulan claims that a tan qalanq is no match for a disruptor, Elnor effortlessly slays several disruptor-carrying Romulan guards in "The Impossible Box" and "Nepenthe" with just his sword. He's not above using Ray Guns, however, as "Stardust City Rag" shows him relieving Bjayzl's personal bodyguards of their phaser pistols and then turning the same firearms on them Guns Akimbo.
• Badass Adorable: He's a gentle soul who's innocent to the ways of the galaxy (even lying is extremely confusing to him) outside of the Qowat Milat monastery where he grew up. He's very endearing in a child-like manner, and he sometimes gets to be the adorable Plucky Comic Relief in otherwise serious scenes. Oh, and did we mention that he can single-handedly kill three highly-trained Romulan soldiers armed with disruptors in a few seconds with only a sword? When Evan Evagora was asked in this interview to describe his character in only three words, his answer was:
  Evagora: Naïve, sweet and deadly.
• Badass Boast:
  • Every time he's on the verge of starting a fight, he asks his opponent to "choose to live," i.e. to walk away without engaging.
  • In "Absolute Candor", he gives a stern warning to the crowd right after he decapitates a man who was about to kill Picard (English translation of the original Romulan):
    "I have bound myself to Picard as qalankhkai. Anyone who threatens him will be choosing to die."
  • Shortly afterwards, he conveys his supreme confidence in his martial arts skills:
    "Fight a Qowat Milat and the outcome is not in doubt."
  • In "The Impossible Box", Hugh informs Elnor that it will take a few minutes for the Sikarian spatial trajector to power down and to conceal the queencell again, and he asks the young man if he can hold off the approaching Romulan soldiers for that long. Elnor's reply is:
    "I won't need a few minutes. Stay behind me."
• Bad Liar: Because he was indoctrinated into the Qowat Milat philosophy of the Way of Absolute Candor, he has virtually no experience telling lies, so naturally, he's awful at it. "Stardust City Rag" demonstrates that he has great difficulty even recognizing that his crewmates are playing roles for their undercover op. After he puts on his disguise, he tries to pretend to be someone else ("Agua-arrrrdiente!"), but the others react by rolling their eyes and uttering "Ugh" in unison.
  Elnor: (disappointed) I don't know how not to be Elnor.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: There are two Romulan men who are part of the main cast, so Elnor, the most gorgeous between the two of them, is the most heroic and the most sympathetic. It should be noted that Evan Evagora is a former model.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Although this trope normally applies to female characters, Elnor is nevertheless treated no differently than an attractive Action Girl by the showrunners in terms of constantly maintaining his photogenic appearance because he's an Elfeminate, Long-Haired Pretty Boy who's played by an ex-model. In "Broken Pieces", he's punched and kicked in the face several times, but you wouldn't know it from his flawless, injury-free visage.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He may be a naïve Nice Guy and Plucky Comic Relief, but he will kill anyone who threatens his friends and disregards his warning to back off.
• The Big Guy: He's the best melee fighter among the crew; he's a Master Swordsman with Qowat Milat Super-Reflexes and Romulan Super-Strength who can take on multiple opponents. He's also the tallest character in the main cast (Evan Evagora is 6'1½").
• Blue Is Heroic: His Qowat Milat robe is navy blue to serve as a visual cue that unlike most Romulans in this franchise, he's one of the good guys.
• Bond One-Liner: After beheading Tenqem, he states grimly:
  Elnor: I regret your choice.
• Brutal Honesty: His crewmates don't always appreciate him pointing out what they're feeling, especially when they're emotionally vulnerable.
  Elnor: [Picard] can't see that you're also... haunted by something you'd like to forget.
  (Jurati glares at him)
  Elnor: Was I in-butting?
  Jurati: That time, yes. (leaves the room)
• Calling the Old Man Out: He's bitterly disappointed that he's only seeing Picard for the first time in fourteen years because Picard needs something from him, and lets him know this in no uncertain terms.
  Picard: Will you come with me? Will you bind your sword to my quest?
  Elnor: (angrily) Now that you have use for me? Now that I have value to you? You left me on my own, old man.
  Picard: I never meant to—
  Elnor: I see no reason not to do the same. (leaves in a huff)
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Thanks to his Qowat Milat upbringing, Mr. Absolute Candor really doesn't understand such things as deception and lies. The others keep him from blowing an undercover op by telling him to keep his mouth shut.
• Can't Argue with Elves: Although he's a Nice Guy who doesn't look down on humans like most Romulans and Vulcans ^note they are the Trek Verse equivalent of Dark Elves and High Elves, respectively, he's still arrogant about his battle prowess (e.g. "Fight a Qowat Milat and the outcome is not in doubt"). He warns his adversaries to "choose to live" because he will cut them down with his sword if they don't withdraw. And time and again, he proves that his self-confidence is justified.
• Catchphrase: "Please, my friend(s). Choose to live." In Romulan, it's "Feldor stam torret."
• Category Traitor: By virtue of being a Qowat Milat acolyte (only his gender prevents him from a being a full-fledged member), Elnor is a traitor to his own race in the eyes of the Tal Shiar and the Zhat Vash because this sect of warrior nuns preach the Way of Absolute Candor, a subversive philosophy which is at odds with mainstream Romulan culture. When Elnor is attacked by Narissa and her goons, it's not just because he's allied with Hugh, it's also because he's a Qowat Milat, and therefore he's their Arch-Enemy.
• The Champion:
  • A Qowat Milat in all but name (men are forbidden from becoming members), Elnor swears an oath to Picard to serve as his qalankhkai. Elnor is thus Picard's protector, and he will do anything he can to help the latter fulfill his quest to rescue Soji.
  • Although he didn't make the Qowat Milat pledge to Hugh, he still acts like a qalankhkai to him. He defends Hugh from their mutual adversaries, and he takes on Hugh's cause, which is to free the xBs from their homicidal Romulan overseers. Despite the fact that there was no vow spoken, Elnor is no less devoted to Hugh than he is to Picard.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: After he undergoes the Qowat Milat training, he develops the Super-Reflexes necessary to dodge multiple energy weapons fire. In "Nepenthe", Narissa and her minions are shooting at him with their disruptors, but he's too nimble for them, and he avoids even getting grazed. His super-agility also allows him to be quick enough to perform a Diving Save on Hugh and push the latter out of harm's way after their assailants open fire. Romulans are stronger than humans, but Elnor is super fast compared to the other non-Qowat Milat members of his species.
• Cheerful Child: Played with. As an orphaned boy who was brought up by nuns, Elnor was extremely happy and thrilled whenever Picard visited him, as the Admiral was the closest thing he had to a father figure. Elnor's affection for Picard and his enthusiasm to learn from his hero are very evident when they spend time together. However, this joy would not last because a tear falls down Elnor's cheek when Picard has to leave earlier than expected, and the former then ceased to be a cheerful child after this moment because they will not see each other again for fourteen years.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After spending the majority of Season 2 dead, he does not return for Season 3. He is last seen with Picard, Seven, Raffi and Guinan in Ten Forward having the events of Season 2 recounted him after being revived by Q. No explanation is given for his absense from Season 3's storyline.
• Close-Range Combatant: He's a martial arts expert, so he's primarily a hand-to-hand fighter, although "Nepenthe" demonstrates that he can throw knives with lethal accuracy.
• Combat Parkour: His Fantastic Fighting Style involves lots of jumping and acrobatics, which includes flipping in the air, leaping from the ceiling, bouncing off walls, etc., often combined with a Spin Attack with his sword, and as typical for this trope, he doesn't receive a single scratch from his foes.
• Commonality Connection: He and Hugh are strangers, but they develop an instant affinity for each other because they're both Good Is Not Soft Nice Guys who dedicate themselves to helping the helpless. This is confirmed by Jonathan Del Arco in this interview, and he even portrayed Hugh as being in love with Elnor because of the selfless qualities they share in common.
  Del Arco: I think there were a lot of things about Elnor that for me resonated as a gay man. You know, I think [Hugh] loved [Elnor]. I think in essence he might've been in love with him in the time that he was there. I think that the hope was really someone loves him. Someone who was idealistic. I think he saw a lot of himself in Elnor. Hugh used to have that sense of innocence, of righteousness. And all those things were hopeful to him, because he hadn't been in a space of hope for all this time. And I think for a minute he thought, 'You know, I think me and the kid can go all the way with this. We could take the cube. We could save it.'
• Constantly Curious:
  • His habit of constantly asking questions is alluded to in "The Impossible Box", and he's aware that it exasperates his crewmates.
    Elnor: What Artifact?
    (Picard and Jurati glance at him without answering)
    Elnor: Maybe that's none of my business, I should out-butt.
  • In "Broken Pieces", Elnor is very curious about the queencell, but Seven of Nine doesn't have time to indulge in his queries.
    Elnor: Is this where the Borg Queen lived?
    Seven: No.
    Elnor: But she used to visit sometimes?
    Seven: (irritated) I can explain or I can steal this Cube.
    (Elnor rolls his eyes in a "Fine, I'll shut up now" gesture)
• Conveniently an Orphan: No normal Romulan would ever want to be part of Picard's motley crew, but Elnor has undergone unique circumstances which would eventually lead him to accept Picard's offer to join him on a rescue mission. He's an orphaned refugee who is being cared for by the Qowat Milat sisterhood, whose members are friends and allies of Picard, so this creates the opportunity for the young Elnor to bond with his idol as a surrogate son since the Admiral (who happens to be childless) is the only positive male role model in his life. Although Picard would abandon Elnor for fourteen years, and the young man is very resentful over this long neglect, he nonetheless changes his mind after his initial refusal of Picard's request when his father figure's life is threatened by the townspeople. Whatever negative feelings Elnor harbours, his love for Picard is stronger, so Elnor saves him and vows to be his qalankhkai. This decision cements Elnor's place on Picard's team.
• Cool Sword: His tan qalanq (the iconic weapon of the Qowat Milat) is a straight, single-edged Absurdly Sharp Blade which happens to be evocative of some East Asian swords. Both the hilt and scabbard are wooden, so the tan qalanq's understated beauty mirrors his graceful Fantastic Fighting Style. In Elnor's expert hands, this Romulan sword is as elegant as it is deadly because he can vanquish multiple foes armed with energy weapons and behead a person with one smooth stroke.
• Cuddle Bug: He's physically affectionate towards the people he likes, even if he barely knows them. He hugs Picard and Seven of Nine (neither of them are the touchy-feely type), he offers no less than three gestures of comfort to Hugh in the very short time that they knew each other, and when he's grieving over Picard's death, he seeks someone to hold him, and Raffi obliges. In the alternate timeline of Season 2, he greets both Raffi and Jurati with hugs.
• Cultural Rebel: His upbringing with the Qowat Milat results in his being indoctrinated into the Way of Absolute Candor, which runs entirely counter to everything that the secretive Romulans hold dear. As Evan Evagora elaborates:
  Evagora: Growing up in this sect, they were taught to always tell the truth, and that's kind of the difference between [Elnor] and every other Romulan.
• The Cutie: As a boy, he's so incredibly endearing that Picard — who is notoriously uncomfortable around kids (even the Qowat Milat nuns are aware of this fact) — not only likes Elnor very much (those are his own words), but they even develop a surrogate father-son relationship. Elnor is quite possibly the cutest child in the Beta and Alpha Quadrants for Picard to overcome his innate discomfort and connect with the boy on such a personal level, and their bonding is one of the sweetest moments on the series. Even as a young adult, Elnor retains a boyish quality (e.g. he longs to see a cat in person) because he had a sheltered existence while living among the nuns, so he's still naïve (e.g. the concept of lying is foreign to him), and he's also fairly ignorant about the rest of the galaxy because he had never left Vashti before. Showrunner Michael Chabon describes◊ the character in terms of purity, innocence, curiosity, and sweetness, plus he would like to squoosh◊ Elnor.
• Death Glare: His glare is almsot as sharp as his sword, and is frequently employed alongside his "Choose to live" warning to encourage potential threats to back off.
• Defends Against Their Own Kind: He's the Token Heroic Orc of the series, so he protects Picard, Hugh and Soji from the Romulans who make up the Zhat Vash, who are the Big Bad in Season 1.
• Delinquents: As a child, he steals a fruit from a Romulan grocer, so when he's not being directly supervised by the nuns or Picard, he likes a Five-Finger Discount.
• Dirt Forcefield: Since he's a gorgeous character (and portrayed by an ex-model, no less), the producers clearly didn't want anything to detract from his physical beauty.
  • When he slices through Romulan soldiers like they're butter in the "The Impossible Box", there is a lot of arterial spray, yet not a single drop of green blood splashes on him.
  • In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", after walking a long distance from La Sirena to Coppelius Station in the blazing heat, Elnor looks pristine when he arrives at the entrance, which juxtaposes Narek's sweaty appearance and the subtle, but visible dirt marks on the latter's clothing.
• Disappeared Dad: Picard, whom Elnor had looked up to as a surrogate father, had abandoned him when he was still a child. Fourteen years later, Picard returns, and their first interaction is him brushing off Elnor's gift of freshly baked bread, and later, he requests Elnor's help as a bodyguard, which only serve to increase the young man's irritation.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: When he faces a potential enemy, he draws his sword and warns them, "Please, my friend(s). Choose to live." Those who disregard his warning end up a head short or with a Slashed Throat, after which he may say, "I regret your choice."
• Elfeminate: Romulans (and Vulcans) are Space Elves, and Elnor is the most elf-like and androgynous of any male Romulan or Vulcan character in the franchise. In addition to being a tall, slim, Long-Haired Pretty Boy with a graceful bearing, he grew up in all-female sect ^note its monastery is located in a forest which looks like Rivendell, and the locals belittle him as a "sisterboy." Various media outlets (this is just one example among many) have compared Elnor to Legolas.
• Fanservice: A mild example is the deep V-neck on his Qowat Milat uniform, which is unusual because the nuns don't expose that much skin. Evan Evagora was a model before he became an actor, so this costuming choice was intentionally done to exploit his sex appeal. In the "Et in Arcadia Ego" two-parter, Elnor's shoulders and arms are bare.
• Fearless Fool: In "Nepenthe", he declines to return to La Sirena because he wants to assist Hugh and the other ex-Borg drones on the Artifact rise up against their Romulan oppressors. His crewmates believe that he's both nuts and courageous for doing so.
  Elnor: Go without me. [The massacre of xBs] will not happen again. My help is needed here.
  Rios: Everyone here thinks you're crazy.
  Jurati: And brave.
  Rios: And brave.
• Good Is Not Soft: He has a benevolent heart and is self-sacrificing when he's pledged to a hopeless cause, but he's utterly merciless towards his foes. He'll offer them only one chance to back down, and if they don't, then he'll butcher them with his sword.
• Heartwarming Orphan: He's an orphan with a sunny disposition that's warm enough to melt Picard's heart, who is normally awkward around children and dislikes displays of emotions (traits which Zani mentions aloud). Not only is the Admiral fond of the boy, but they even form an emotional connection like a father and son. Despite the Qowat Milat's no-men policy, the nuns grow to love Elnor.
• Heroic BSoD: In "Nepenthe", when he's evading Romulan guards who are pursuing him, he huddles in a corner and assumes a Troubled Fetal Position, mildly rocking back and forth. He feels guilty for failing to protect Hugh and is traumatized after watching him die. To make matters worse, Elnor also sustained an injury which is at least causing him discomfort if not outright pain because he's limping.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • He idolized Picard when he was a boy, and he was always keen to learn about Terran culture from him (such as literature and fencing) and receive gifts that the Admiral had brought from Earth.
  • He also admires Seven of Nine based on his excited reaction in "The Impossible Box" ("Borg like Seven of Nine?"), which makes perfect sense because she's an Action Girl who's fighting for a "lost cause" of sorts, and he was raised by an Amazon Brigade which does the same thing. Evan Evagora confirms this in this interview:
    Evagora: Elnor gravitates towards strong female figures because he grew up with a bunch of them, so that's the type of people he relates to, people who are strong-willed, and Seven of Nine is not afraid to give her opinion, which is pretty similar to absolute candor.
• Hit-and-Run Tactics: In "Nepenthe", he takes out Narissa's minions by darting in and out of various crawlspaces and gaps to perform sneak attacks.
• Iconic Item: In Season 1, he's rarely seen without his tan qalanq. Even in situations where there's no immediate danger, he always carries it sheathed and slung across his back (like when he's casually standing on the bridge of La Sirena or eating breakfast with Picard and Jurati). If he's sitting on the ground, he keeps his sword next to his person. He's only weaponless at the Qowat Milat monastery or if he's at a place where his tan qalanq would be confiscated by security if he brought it along, such as Bjayzl's casino and Coppelius Station.
• Iconic Outfit: In Season 1, he's exclusively associated with his Qowat Milat habit (both the long-sleeved and sleeveless versions) because it's the only thing he wears ^note with one exception in "Stardust City Rag".
• Implausible Fencing Powers: With his extraordinary swordsmanship with a tan qalanq and his Super-Reflexes, Elnor can behead someone with a single stroke (which includes a Diagonal Cut) and dodge multiple projectiles to the point where Guns Are Worthless against him.
• Important Haircut: Once he becomes a Space Cadet, he cuts his hair to shoulder-length.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He fulfills three of the five main criteria. He has an Open, Emotional Personality (being a disciple of the Way of Absolute Candor means that he always expresses what he's feeling, and he's very good at reading the emotional state of his crewmates as demonstrated in "The Impossible Box"), Typically Feminine Interests (by Romulan standards, he's considered to be effeminate because he was cared for and trained by the Qowat Milat nuns; he dresses and behaves like they do, so he's perceived to be doing "women's work"), and Effeminate or Non-Masculine Appearance (he's a Long-Haired Pretty Boy, the most Elfeminate-looking Romulan in the franchise).
• Katanas Are Just Better: His tan qalanq looks distinctly East Asian in design, especially when compared to the European-style swords being carried by the other Romulans on Vashti.
• Limited Wardrobe: In Season 1, the only time he's dressed in something other than his Qowat Milat robe (or its sleeveless variation) is his Freecloud costume.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long, wavy black hair that almost reaches his waist, and combined with his delicate facial features and svelte frame, he's beautiful and elegant in a feminine way (heck, he's easily the prettiest male character in the franchise, Romulan or otherwise). The length of Elnor's hair and being clean-shaven give him a more androgynous look than Narek, the other resident Romulan Pretty Boy who's short-haired and bearded.
• Manly Tears: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he sobs in Raffi's arms after Picard succumbs to his neurodegenerative disorder.
• Master Swordsman: His favourite weapon is the tan qalanq, the traditional sword of the Qowat Milat. Thanks to the specialized training he had received from the warrior nuns who terrify the Tal Shiar, he's so agile and deadly with it that he can defeat multiple opponents equipped with energy weapons.
• Meaningful Name: His name is an unusual example because it requires knowledge from a different franchise. "Elnor" means "Star-Run" in Sindarin, which is another way of saying "Star-Trek." After Elnor agrees to bind his sword to Picard's quest, he experiences interstellar travel for the first time since his relocation to Vashti, so he's "running" (or "trekking") among the stars. Showrunner Michael Chabon deliberately chose an Elvish name◊ for the character.
• A Minor Kidroduction: In "Absolute Candor", he's introduced in a flashback which takes place fourteen years prior as an orphaned boy being cared for by the Qowat Milat sisterhood. He and Picard have a surrogate father-son relationship. Seeing Elnor first as a child is meant to elicit an "Awww!" reaction from the viewers because he's the first major Romulan character in the franchise who's fully on the side of the heroes (as opposed to his species' traditional depiction as villains or allies of convenience), so it's important to establish from the get-go that he's sympathetic.
• Nice Guy:
  • He's the most open-minded Romulan or Vulcan character in the franchise because he lacks the Fantastic Racism of either species, as his sense of superiority is limited to his battle prowess. He's also the most open-hearted (which is Zani's own description of him) because he doesn't hide his vulnerabilities in public (as Romulans do) or suppress his emotions (as Vulcans do). Elnor is the first Vulcanoid in the Trek Verse who's depicted as being a sweet, sensitive Cuddle Bug.
  • He doesn't know Hugh, yet he is very protective of him and risks his life to defend a complete stranger. When he sees Hugh mourning for the xBs who were murdered by Narissa and her mooks, Elnor immediately places his hand on Hugh's shoulder, and shortly afterwards, he also holds the back of Hugh's neck as a gesture of comfort. Elnor is under no obligation to aid Hugh, and he could've easily gone back to La Sirena, but he volunteers to stay behind on the Artifact and do what he can to prevent more former Borg drones from being slain by the Romulans.
• No Sense of Personal Space:
  • He's touchy-feely (even tenderly so, as they're gestures of comfort) with Hugh in "Nepenthe" even though they don't know each other. However, Hugh welcomes the physical contact (which includes Elnor touching his shoulder, cradling the back of Hugh's neck, and covering Hugh's hand with his own) because, as Jonathan Del Arco explains, he's in love with Elnor.
  • Elnor has met Seven of Nine only once, and when he sees her again in "Broken Pieces", he hugs her tightly and buries his head against her shoulder. He's so grateful to be in the presence of a friendly face again after being trapped alone on the Artifact for days and struggling to avoid being captured by the Romulans, not to mention he's upset over Hugh's death. Seven is a bit uncomfortable with the sudden close contact, but she recognizes that Elnor is very sensitive and is in need of emotional support, so she tolerates it.
• Off the Grid: Played for Laughs in "Stardust City Rag". As the rest of La Sirena's crew are bombarded with holographic pop-up ads related to their personal histories (tea for Picard, drugs for Raffi, robots for Jurati, and starships for Rios), Elnor crestfallenly bemoans that he didn't get one — because he'd spent most of his life living in a monastery on a backwater planet and was effectively invisible to Freecloud's advertising server.
• Older Is Better: In the Trek Verse, it's unexpected for a person from a spacefaring civilization to depend almost exclusively on a sword when energy weapons are the norm, but in Elnor's case, he's an old-school Romulan Warrior Monk who upholds the Qowat Milat customs and lifestyle of a bygone era when his species was a Proud Warrior Race. His preference for the tan qalanq over conventional Ray Guns reflects that he's noble, forthright, courageous and a total badass — anyone who dares to challenge Elnor in combat should Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight because Guns Are Worthless when he can Dodge the Bullet.
• Out of Focus: He appears in very little of Season 2 by dint of being dead for most of it, until Q revives him.
• Parental Abandonment: When we first meet him in flashback, his parents are already absent (whether missing or dead is unclear), and he's being raised by a group of Romulan warrior nuns known as the Qowat Milat.
• Plucky Comic Relief: His main role in "Stardust City Rag" is to provide levity; all of his lines are lighthearted and they poke fun at his naïveté. He also has funny moments in subsequent episodes.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He makes a simple and effective one during his confrontation with Tenqem, which falls on deaf ears. Tenqem really ought to have listened.
  Elnor: Please, my friend. Choose to live.
• Real Men Cook: At the Qowat Milat monastery, he bakes bread and cooks vegetables; preparing meals is presumably one of his duties as an apprentice, as he was in charge of clearing the dishes when he was a child.
• Samurai Ponytail: His hair is bound up in a style distinctly reminiscent of the classical chonmage.
• Science Fantasy: In both his appearance and Fantastic Fighting Style, Elnor's connection to the Fantasy genre is two-fold; he's a blend of High Fantasy (he's the "Traditional Elves in Space" variant) and Wuxia (the Romulans were loosely based on Communist China, so his character was inspired by the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Imperial China). Because he's an old-fashioned Warrior Monk who was brought up in a rustic environment with minimal technology, he shares more in common with an Elf or a wuxia hero than with 24th-century Romulans or Vulcans.
  • In addition to his Sindarin name and Elfeminate traits, Elnor is rather "fantastical" for a Vulcanoid because his Qowat Milat Super-Reflexes are not only unique among his species, but no other being who isn't a Soong-type android or an Augment can Dodge the Bullet in past Trek shows. He brandishes a sword instead of a Ray Gun, even while in the midst of a firefight, and he emerges from these altercations unscathed as he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. Elnor also inexplicably has an Elvish-like Dirt Forcefield which makes him immune to blood stains, dirt and sweat, unlike Narek, the other Romulan series regular who is subjected to all three.
  • As for wuxia, Evan Evagora can attest to the East Asian look of his character, and Elnor does bear a strong resemblance to the Long-Haired Pretty Boy protagonists of the genre ^note such as Lan Wang Ji from The Untamed. His Qowat Milat martial arts feature a lot of Wire Fu and Implausible Fencing Powers which are ubiquitous in Chinese Heroic Fantasy, and like any Master Swordsman in those stories, Elnor gained his superhuman/super-Romulan combat skills through vigorous training. His tan qalanq is modeled on East Asian swords.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He's sensitive, having been raised by women and being open about his feelings, whereas Rios is rugged and manly as well as more emotionally guarded.
• Single Tear: As a boy, he sheds a single tear shortly before Picard beams away when the latter is recalled by Starfleet because he's hurt that his father figure didn't spend as much time with him as he had promised.
• Socially Awkward Hero: He may be an awesome swordsman, but his "absolute candor" and naïveté regarding the galaxy beyond Vashti put him into Fish out of Water situations, especially during an undercover op.
• Space Cadet: He's now a cadet at Starfleet Academy.
• Space Elves: He's a Romulan Warrior Monk who fits the "Traditional Elves in Space" category because his elven attributes are cranked up, so he's essentially a Science Fantasy character in a Science Fiction Series. He's Elfeminate, his name is Sindarin for "Star-Run," he has Super-Reflexes that no other non-Qowat Milat Romulans or Vulcans possess in the Trek Verse ^note while it can be argued that Romulans outside of the Qowat Milat lack the mental discipline to achieve those high speeds, Vulcans do exert great control over their minds and bodies, yet we've never seen a Vulcan move as fast as Elnor, plus he wields a sword instead of an energy weapon. Furthermore, the Qowat Milat monastery that was once his home is carved into a giant tree and it's situated in a Rivendell-like forest.
• Stealth Expert:
  • In "The Impossible Box", the Romulan guards don't notice at all that Elnor is on the ceiling above them until he leaps down and lands just behind them, taking them by surprise. He carves up all three of them with his tan qalanq before they can fire single shot from their disruptors.
  • In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he can out-stealth two spies. Narissa and Narek, who are Zhat Vash operatives, aren't aware that Elnor is listening to their conversation off-screen, and when Narek departs from the Artifact, he's clueless that Elnor is tailing him. Later, Elnor sneaks into a room on La Sirena and startles Rios, Raffi and Narek; they don't notice Elnor's presence until his tan qalanq is right next to Narek's throat.
• Super-Reflexes: His ability to dodge multiple energy weapons fire is not only superhuman, it's super-Romulan. He also reacts fast enough to prevent someone else from being shot (such as his Diving Save on Hugh in "Nepenthe"). Moreover, he throws Narissa's own knife back at her before she can pull the trigger of her disruptor (although she's saved by a Teleportation Rescue). Being able to move that swiftly is practically a superpower in the Trek Verse because the only other beings who have previously displayed this skill are Soong-type androids and Augments, and Elnor is neither a synth nor genetically-engineered.
• Super-Strength: As a Romulan, he's stronger than a human, and in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he punches a couple of Soong-type androids with sufficient force to cause them to fall down.
• Sword and Fist: In "Absolute Candor", he's victorious against three ruffians by mixing unarmed combat with his swordsmanship. He causes the first man to fall over by roughly pushing the latter down with his hand and then launching himself into the air from the guy's back. As Elnor performs a side flip, he hits the second hooligan with a flying kick to the face, and then he chops off Tenqem's head with his tan qalanq.
• Take Up My Sword: In "Nepenthe", he had agreed earlier on to help Hugh enact his Revenge on the Romulans who have callously executed the xBs, so after Hugh is fatally wounded, he urges Elnor with his dying breath to finish what he was unable to start, and he even frames his last wish as a lost cause because Hugh knows that would be irresistible to a justice-seeking Qowat Milat.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he doesn't like or trust Narek, a Zhat Vash operative whose sister had murdered Hugh, but he agrees to work with him to destroy the beacon that will summon the extragalactic synthetics.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: He occasionally announces how he's feeling at that precise moment, due to his adherence to the Way of Absolute Candor.
• Time-Shifted Actor: He's portrayed by Ian Nunney as a child and Evan Evagora as an adult.
• Token Heroic Orc: He's the first heroic Romulan character who's part of the main cast in the franchise, being a member of Picard's motley crew and is even the latter's surrogate son. The Romulans were the Big Bad in TNG (and they still are in this series), so the younger Picard could not have predicted that his elderly self would embrace a Romulan as family. Elnor is the most un-Romulan Romulan in the Trek Verse because he follows the Way of Absolute Candor as taught to him by the Qowat Milat.
• Token Non-Human: By the end of "Absolute Candor", he's the sole non-human member of Picard's ragtag crew.
• Uncertain Doom: His last known assignment was on the Excelsior, but in "Vox", the ship is destroyed by the Borg after the crew regained control and try to make a run for it away from Earth. The showunners later confirmed he wasn't on the Excelsior when it blew, but they didn't say if he was anywhere else while the assimilated Frontier Day fleet was assulting Spacedock and the Titan.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • In "The Impossible Box", he's an atypical example because he displays his devotion to Picard by disobeying the latter's orders to stay on La Sirena, but he beams aboard the Artifact in the nick of time to keep Picard safe from Romulan guards. Picard insists that Elnor escape with him and Soji, but the young man refuses because he wants to ensure that the Romulans won't be able to trace where Picard and Soji have gone. Not wanting to leave his surrogate son behind again, Picard then releases Elnor from his qalankhkai pledge, but Elnor declines to be released; clearly, his father figure's life is more important to him than his own.
  • Elnor and Hugh have just met, yet the former is committed to protecting the latter, and Elnor puts his life on the line to do so. Even though he isn't Hugh's qalankhkai, he nevertheless becomes Hugh's ally, and together, they intend to overthrow the Romulans on the Artifact, who have begun exterminating the xBs. After Hugh is murdered, Elnor's loyalty to him remains undiminished, and he's determined to continue their original mission.
• Warrior Monk: In every way except in name; he's the embodiment of the traditions and values practiced by the Qowat Milat warrior nuns, but because of the simple fact that he is a man, he can never be one of them.
• We Help the Helpless:
  • As a Qowat Milat acolyte, he chooses to bind his sword to Picard's quest because it meets the requirements for worthiness, i.e. it's a lost cause. Protecting Picard (a fragile elderly man) and rescuing Soji (a sentient android whose life is in grave danger) requires Elnor to confront the Tal Shiar and the Zhat Vash on his lonesome, which would be an impossible task for anyone who isn't a Qowat Milat.
  • Technically, he's not Hugh's qalankhkai because he didn't swear the oath, yet he behaves exactly like one. Hugh is a Non-Action Guy, so Elnor takes it upon himself to be his bodyguard, and he supports Hugh's goal to seize control of the Artifact from the Romulan Free State because the latter had sanctioned the slaughter of the xBs. Even after Hugh dies, Elnor is still willing to implement Hugh's plan because, as the older man reminds Elnor before he passes away, it's a lost cause.
• Would Hit a Girl: Because he was brought up by the Qowat Milat warrior nuns, any Action Girl who attacks him or his allies is fair game. He kills one of Narissa's female mooks in "Nepenthe", and he doesn't hesitate to start pummeling Narissa when she challenges him to an unarmed duel. In "Broken Pieces", he hits another female minion several times until she becomes unconscious.

La Sirena

La Sirena

A Kaplan F17 Speed Freighter originally owned by Captain Rios, then Seven of Nine, and now Raffi Musiker. Her name is Spanish for "The Mermaid."

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• Crew of One: Sort of, at first. Before Picard and the others showed up, Rios was the only flesh-and-blood person operating her (albeit with the help of his holo-doppelgangers). When Seven took control, she merged the holos and turned it into a crew of two. Raffi now appears to be the only one operating her as of Season 3 (at least until Worf shows up).
• Evil Costume Switch: In the Confederacy timeline, she has a much plainer paint job and orange engine glow, instead of her regular red paint and blue engines.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite her small size and non-combat purpose, she's capable of going toe-to-toe with a larger (albeit antiquated) Romulan Bird-of-Prey and also a Romulan Snakehead fighter that packed a lot of firepower for its small size (and was also equipped with a cloaking device).
• Red Is Heroic: She's the "hero ship" of Picard, and she sports a red, white, and black paint job.
• Signature Team Transport: Was the "hero" ship of Season 1 and Season 2. Still around as of Season 3, but has taken a back seat to the USS Titan-A in that regard. It's now Raffi's deep cover base of operations for her role in Starfleet Intelligence.
• Spell My Name with a "The": Her name literally starts with "The" when translated into English.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Jurati takes the ship with her when she becomes the new Borg Queen, but the ultimate fate of the Confederation-timeline La Sirena is unclear. It's implied that she becomes the basis for the new Borg ships encountered in the future. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, the original red-painted La Sirena can be seen in the grid formation between the Borg Ship and Stargazer.

Emergency Holograms

Emergency Holograms

From left to right: Ian (Engineering), Enoch (Navigational), Mister Hospitality, Emmet (Tactical) and Emil (Medical)

Played by: Santiago Cabrera

A group of five holograms physically based on Rios who act as personified interfaces for various automated ship operations aboard La Sirena — Emil (Medical), Enoch (Navigational), Emmet (Tactical), Ian (Engineering), and Mister Hospitality (Hospitality).

As of season 2, the only one remaining is Emmet, the others having been merged into him.

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• Bilingual Dialogue: Emmet almost exclusively speaks Spanish, and he interacts with people (like Seven and Raffi) who speak English.
• The Cutie: Enoch exhibits some adorable, child-like behaviour. In "The End Is the Beginning", he fanboys over Picard and wishes that Rios would react with the same level of excitement. When Enoch greets Raffi for the first time in "Broken Pieces", he enthusiastically waves at her. Because he's always smiling, he informs her that Rios threatened to punch him for it. Enoch is eager to share his knowledge of astronavigation with Raffi, and after she kisses him on his forehead, he grins and holds his face like a boy who has been kissed by his crush.
• The Engineer: Ian is the Emergency Engineering Hologram, and in his introductory scene, he's working on the ship's engines.
• Etiquette Nazi: Mister Hospitality has zero tolerance for Emmet's sloppy conduct. In "Broken Pieces", the former orders the latter to sit up straight on the couch, and after Emmet places his boots on the coffee table, Mr. Hospitality shoves his legs away.
• Guy in Back: Emmet is the Emergency Tactical Hologram, and when the ship is involved in a Space Battle, he summarizes his job as "You fly, I'll shoot."
• Hero-Worshipper: Enoch reverently lists some of Picard's major accomplishments after he eagerly asks Rios, "So, are we excited? Intimidated? Maybe a teensy bit starstuck?" He also describes Picard as a good man who's on the side of the angels.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": While the other four Holograms have names, the Hospitality Hologram is just called "Mister Hospitality."
• The Jeeves: Mister Hospitality, the Emergency Hospitality Hologram, whose duties are largely to be an attendant for the crew.
• Literal Split Personality: Downplayed, but still applicable with the Emergency Holograms. Rios created the five of them from the self-scan option, then deleted information he didn't want them to remember, but did a sloppy job of it. The end result is that while none of them can recall entirely what was deleted, they each remember fragments. Raffi realizes this and interviews them to put the pieces together and obtain a better picture of Rios' Dark and Troubled Past.
• The Medic: Emil is the Emergency Medical Hologram, and he has been programmed to diagnose and treat a wide variety of injuries and ailments (including psychiatric ones).
• Me's a Crowd: The five Emergency Holograms that help run the ship all look like and are based on Rios, and all of them could be called upon at once if needed.
• Messy Hair: Emmet's hair is the most unkempt of the holograms, and not surprisingly, he lacks good manners (e.g. he's snoring on the couch instead of listening to Raffi).
• Mythology Gag:
  • Ian has a Scottish accent, just like another famous Starfleet engineer.
  • Enoch has an Irish accent, just like the rather less-well-known navigator Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley in TOS.
• The Navigator: Enoch is the Emergency Navigational Hologram, and in addition to navigating the ship, he ensures that the navigational sensors are operating at peak efficiency.
• Nerves of Steel:
  • In "Absolute Candor", Emmet is totally nonchalant when he reports to Rios that La Sirena is seconds away from being obliterated by Vashti's security net.
  • In "The Star Gazer", Emmet is not at all afraid of the pirates trying to raid La Sirena. He calmly waits for Seven to disable his safeties before he starts kicking ass.
• Nice Guy: Enoch is the most amiable of the holograms; Raffi tells him that he's her favourite after he assists her with her inquiries, and she kisses him on the forehead as a thank you, much to his bashful glee. On the holodeck, he places a pillow in the center of the couch so that Mister Hospitality can sit down.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Mister Hospitality invades the personal space of Picard and Raffi, and the latter even falls onto her bed trying to avoid him.
• Odd Name Out: Four of them have Punny Names based on the acronym of their function — Emil (EMH), Enoch (ENH), Emmet (ETH), and Ian (EEH). Then there's Mister Hospitality (EHH).
• Other Me Annoys Me: Rios finds his doppelgangers annoying to varying degrees. Emmet and Mister Hospitality also annoy each other.
• Proud Beauty: It's hinted in "Broken Pieces" that Mister Hospitality is vain because he views himself as a "better-groomed" version of Rios, and he runs his hand through his hair a couple of times to illustrate this.
• Super Doc: Emil, the Emergency Medical Hologram, is not only a medical doctor of great skill, but he's also a psychiatrist who can detect when a passenger is experiencing severe psychological distress. Justified since it's a hologram, so of course it can be programmed with far more medical knowledge than a normal human would have.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Because Rios selected the self-scan option for his holograms, they all appear identical to him, and therefore they share his good looks.
• Unexplained Accent: For some reason, the Emergency Holograms have accents the real Rios doesn't (he speaks English with a slight Spanish accent). Emil is British, Enoch is Irish, Mister Hospitality is American, Ian is Scottish, and Emmet doesn't just have a Spanish accent, he almost exclusively speaks in Chilean Spanish.
• The Un-Favourite: Rios seems to have various levels of tolerance and use for the "practical" holos, but utterly fucking despises Mr. Hospitality for comically unexplained reasons. It's to the point where he doesn't even get a Punny Name like his cohorts do.
• Unintelligible Accent: Ian's Scottish accent is so strong that at one point, he says something that only Enoch seems to understand. Raffi, on the other hand, is left completely clueless.
  Ian: And he's sae fou as a piper an' awfu aff the fang.
  Enoch: So true, Ian.
  Raffi: I mean...(grasping at the air) it's not even a language.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Seven deleted all the holos except for Emmet, who appears for one episode in Season 2, then gets replaced by a holographic recreation of Elnor when the Confederation-timeline La Sirena is under siege by the Borg Queen. It is never known what became of him when Jurati takes the ship with her after becoming the new Borg Queen. The primary-timeline La Sirena is now under Raffi's care as of Season 3, and it is currently unknown if Emmet is still around or if she deleted him as well.

Crew of the U.S.S. Titan NCC-80102-A/U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-G

Captain Liam Shaw

Captain Liam Shaw

"Forgive me. At some point, asshole became a substitute for charm."

Played by: Todd Stashwick

"Why – why me? I'm just some dipshit from Chicago. Now, I'm... lucky number ten."

The commanding officer of the Titan-A in the series' third season.

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• The Captain: His position aboard the Titan-A.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Michael Burnham, the main protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery is a Science Hero and an Action Girl and initially an aggressive Anti-Hero, who is a Combat Pragmatist that doesn't follow everything by-the-book and prefers to do her things on her way. Shaw has neither of those traits, preferring to do things calm and orderly as Titan-A's Captain, is a Jerkass Tragic Bigot at first who suffers from Survivor's Guilt and follows everything by-the-book.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Shaw was onboard the U.S.S. Constance during the Battle of Wolf 359. When his ship was about to be destroyed, he was one of ten to board the last lifeboat and he doesn’t understand why he, a “dipshit from Chicago”, got to survive when 41 of his shipmates didn't.
• Death by Irony: He survived the Borg's first incursion at Wolf-359, but winds up dying at the hands of his own crew when they're assimilated by the Borg.
• Detrimental Determination: Having survived Wolf-359 and losing many of his friends that day, he's so hell bent to Never Be Hurt Again that he's made himself out to be a Jerkass that's not very well-liked by his crew, and has spent the last 30 years on a rather unremarkable, by-the-book career. To his credit, he's fully aware of what he's doing to himself, and beneath all that callousness is a reasonable man who sees something better in his First Officer than he ever did in himself.
• The Engineer: He came up through the operations side of the service and considers himself an "old grease monkey".
• Establishing Character Moment: He's first introduced into the series eating dinner on the Titan, having kept his "guests" waiting for some time, and speaks to them somewhat condescendingly as he derails their plans to take the ship outside Federation space, while coldly reminding them they aren't in charge of the vessel.
• Everyone Has Standards: Much as he was a colossal Jerkass early on, especially towards a man he actively blamed for his lot in life, even he cannot have the gall to tell Picard to abandon his own son once his relation with Jack is made clear.
• Expy: As Todd Stashwick explained in an interview, Shaw is heavily inspired by Quint from Jaws, to the point of sharing the last name of Quint's actor (as actually naming the character Quint would have been "a little on the nose"). Both men are Shell-Shocked Veterans who survived the destructions of their ships, but had to watch as most of their crews died horrifically, and both eventually rose to captain vessels of their own, but remain forever defined by the scars left by that decades-old tragedy. Shaw's speech about the Battle of Wolf 359 in "No Win Scenario" was directly inspired by Quint's speech about the destruction of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. Also, like Quint himself, Shaw is the Sacrificial Lion of the cast who dies towards the climax to show things have hit their Darkest Hour in the journey.
• Fanboy: Of Geordi La Forge, much as he has varying levels of apprehension and disdain for members of the former Enterprise crew—and for good reason—he has nothing but unanimous praise for his idol and it is clear that Shaw can only just barely keep his composure when talking to him for the first time in person in spite of being on the run from Starfleet and being hard pressed for time.
• Fantastic Racism: Hates Borg with a passion and similarly shows this towards ex-Borg. Unlike Benjamin Sisko, however, he hasn’t moved past it. Being a survivor of Wolf 359 really hurt him deeply.
• A Father to His Men: He may be a dick, but he genuinely cares about his crew, as shown by his reluctance to risk their lives to save "a couple of old relics" and giving the junior officers a chance to rest during a lull in the action.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Well, saying that he becomes wholly friendly with Picard and the former crew of the Enterprise-D is a bit of an overestimation of how their relationship develops over the course of the third season, but he goes from being extremely hostile and deliberately overbearing on them from the moment they stepped foot in his presence due to his Dark and Troubled Past to eventually effortlessly working in tandem with them and even giving his life for the safety of the man who he blamed so much for his lot in life. This is especially amplified with his relationship with Seven of Nine, whom he treated with a severe case of Fantastic Racism due to her being a former Borg only to, over the course of their journey, eventually trust her enough to deem her successor to his captaincy over the Titan-A in his last breaths while dying in her arms. Subverted with the latter in the finale however when it's revealed that Shaw always respected Seven, and his earlier hostility throughout the season was due to a feeling of being betrayed by her after recommending her for captaincy, something that is eventually rebuilt before his passing.
• Foil: His first meeting with Picard and Riker establishes him as Riker's polar opposite. He's not fond of Riker's "freewheeling, loosey-goosey, Kentucky mash kind of style"; he prefers things calm and orderly, and he's clearly not interested in getting involved in shenanigans.
• Forgotten First Meeting: He met Jean-Luc Picard prior to the series— at Wolf 359, where Picard was forced under the Borg's control to be Locutus.
• Hate Sink: Shaw is designed to be this: he has a hatred towards Borg and ex-Borg, which he shows when he forces Seven of Nine to use her old name "Annika Hansen"; he also shows open disdain for Picard and Riker, clearly not up to playing their games, not meeting the two when they arrive on the Titan, and shoving them in bunk beds despite their iconic status. He also prefers things to be nice and orderly, and is not happy when Seven is able to get Picard and Riker to a shuttle so they can continue their investigation. The man is clearly one major incident away from performing Sanity Slippage and doing something regrettable. However, it's later shown that he deliberately became this because he was a survivor of Wolf 359, and he played up his Jerkass tendencies because he didn't want to be hurt again and by the later half of the season, while a bit of a hardass who still doesn't have the strongest opinion of Picard and his crew (sans Geordi), he's nowhere near as much of a prick as he made himself out to be - even from the beginning. While he was justifyingly critical of "Hansen"'s recklessness as his first officer, he was supportive of Seven's bravery, recommending her promotion - using her desired name during his officer review of her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Shaw takes point as the front most target to draw fire away from Picard and the rest of the crew that hasn't been assimilated by the Borg to Hold the Line for their escape, ultimately leading to him biting it as a phaser shot hits him square through the chest, leaving Shaw with only enough life in him to pass on the command of the Titan-A to Seven of Nine before dying in her arms.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • He shuts down Picard and Riker trying to get him to take the Titan outside Federation space by pointing out that the former's Admiralty position means nothing due to him being retired, and the latter's Captaincy is meaningless without a ship to command. Neither veteran can muster a response.
  • Seven needles him for not rescuing Picard and Riker when they take one of the Titan's shuttles and are being attacked, but as he points out, he is responsible for the Titan and the 500 people onboard, and the incident is not in Federation territory. Everything that happens afterwards that puts the ship and her crew in danger, as harsh as he is about putting it, he isn't wrong that Riker and Picard are both responsible.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being unpleasant, he's not evil, as he does go after Riker and Picard and saves them from Vadic, and defers to their suggestions despite the problems going on. And later decides to help Picard to protect Jack from Vadic. He also seems to be very distant from his crew, but clearly does put their safety as a priority. And as the Titan engages in a very risky plan to get everyone out alive, he slowly starts to show more of the gold side in order to pull it off.
• Kick the Dog: Rather than provide his guests with proper quarters, he stuffs Riker and Picard in cadet bunks because he doesn't like them trying to steal his ship.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Yes, he's a dick and a bigot against x-B's, and he's had serious Survivor Guilt issues since Wolf-359. That being said, he's as devoted to The Federation as any officer, and as it becomes clear how much danger the Federation is in, he becomes less and less reticent to help Picard and his officers try to prevent a catastrophe.
• Mirror Character: He's one to Benjamin Sisko, another Wolf-359 survivor who hated Picard for his role in the affair. Unlike Sisko, who was able to move on from his pain and become the hero of the Alpha Quadrant, Shaw could never let go of his hatred until the end, having held onto his Survivor's Guilt for 35 years out of a desire not to be hurt again.
• Only Sane Man: As far as he's concerned, at least. Dealing with two space cowboys, the thieving son of one of those cowboys, and his insubordinate XO, he clearly thinks that he's the only one on his ship with his head on straight.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • After he ends up badly injured, he transfers command of the Titan to Riker and tasks him with getting them out alive.
  • When Seven brings him evidence that they had a Changeling infiltrator aboard since before they left spacedock he listens and works with her to develop a strategy to lure them out into the open.
  • While on the run, he willingly works in tandem with the others to uncover the conspiracy and clear their names.
  • Prior to their departure, he sends his crew evaluation report to Starfleet. He praises Seven's strengths as a Starfleet Officer and recommends her promotion to Captain upon their return to port.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Beneath his asshole exterior, he's clearly broken by Wolf 359, admitting that "At some point, 'asshole' became a substitute for charm."
• Survivor's Guilt: He was at Wolf 359, where he and nine others from his ship survived in an Escape Pod but left forty-one others to die. He still has no idea why he was chosen to live when he was just "some dipshit from Chicago".
• Tempting Fate:
  • His first in-person meeting with Picard and Riker has him explain how "boring" their inspection of the ship will be. He states that there will be no explosions, firefights— basically everything that ends up happening in the first episode alone. If Tempting Fate has a button, this man has mercilessly pogo-sticked all over it.
  • He does it again in "Imposters", expressing glee on having Riker and Picard off his ship and off to a possible court martial once the Titan-A meets up with the Intrepid. So, of course, he gets dragged into a Fugitive Arc thanks to the fact that someone on the Intrepid is very paranoid about Changelings. Man needs to get away from that button with the pogo stick.
• Tragic Bigot: "No Win Scenario" reveals that his bigotry toward Borg and ex-Borg was the result of him surviving Wolf 359.
• Uncertain Doom: Word of God statements from Terry Matalas, Picard's showrunner, as well as Word of Dante beliefs from Todd Stashwick himself in post-show interviews appear to call into question exactly how "dead" Liam Shaw might be^note Hilariously in the case of the latter, Stashwick has commented that his prior role as Talok in Star Trek: Enterprise as a hilarious opportunity — much akin to Tasha Yar and Sela's connection — that a connection could be established between Talok and Shaw that could allow Shaw to undergo the same resurrection ritual Spock did in "The Search of Spock". At present the answer is "dead", but future follow-up story may reveal otherwise.

Captain Seven / Annika Hansen

Captain Seven of Nine / Annika Hansen

The ex-Borg Fenris Ranger from the Delta Quadrant.

Played by: Jeri Ryan

"You think of me as a vigilante, fine. Ranging is my job. It's not saving the galaxy, it's helping people who have no one else to help them. It's hopeless and pointless and exhausting, and the only thing worse... would be giving up."

A former Borg drone liberated by the crew of Voyager. In the years since her return to the Federation, she was shut out of Starfleet and worked for the Fenris Rangers, a Vigilante Militia that tries to maintain order in the former Romulan Neutral Zone. After returning from 2024, Picard appointed her to a field commission in Starfleet, and by the third season, she is the first officer to Captain Shaw aboard the Titan-A. She is later promoted to captain by Captain Tuvok upon Shaw's recommendation, and is made the commanding officer of the Enterprise-G when the ship is rechristened from the Titan.

For more information, please see her page.

Doctor Ohk

Doctor (Commander) Ohk

Played by: Tiffany Shepis

The Titan-A's Trill chief medical officer.

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• Anger Born of Worry: She confronts Riker as he wakes Crusher from medically-induced rest to bring her to the Titan's bridge in "Disengage".
• Badass Bookworm: Proves her mettle in "The Last Generation" as capable of helping retake the bridge of the Titan-A with Seven-of-Nine from the Borg, as well as help coordinate it against the whole of Starfleet to Hold the Line.
• The Medic: As the CMO aboard the Titan, and she performs a minor miracle during "Disengage", as she and her staff have Beverly Crusher out of a medical stasis pod (where she was placed in critical condition) and stabilized enough to walk to the ship's bridge inside of a single hour that Vadic grants the ship and crew.

Lieutenant T'Veen

Lieutenant T'Veen

Played by: Stephanie Czajkowski

The Titan-A's Vulcan chief science officer.

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• Mauve Shirt: She's a prominent member of the Titan-A's bridge crew, but gets executed by Vadic in "Surrender" when she picks someone to kill to draw out Jack Crusher.
• No Body Left Behind: Being vaporized by the phaser by the hands of Vadic would do that.
• Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: And also Uneven Hybrid. According to her actress, T'Veen's grandmother was Deltan, which gives her enhanced sensory awareness as well as explaining her lack of hair.
• Science Hero: Among the Titan-A's bridge officers, she's in charge of scientific analysis.

Lieutenant Matthew Mura

Lieutenant Matthew Arliss Mura

Played by: Joseph Lee

The Titan-A's Bajoran tactical officer.

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• Grand Theft Me: Jack Crusher briefly possesses him in an effort to input Picard's override codex and retake control of the bridge. Unfortunately, Vadic notices and interrupts before he can finish.
  • Later, he gets assimilated by the Borg.
• Half-Human Hybrid: He outwardly looks Bajoran, but has a clearly human given name, and states his name in an Earth format (given name, then surname) instead of Bajoran cultural practices (surname, then given name, e.g. Kira Nerys). He also has a middle name, which is unheard of for a Bajoran.
• Mauve Shirt: Almost gets this treatment, with Vadic forcing him to his knees in "Surrender", before she executes T'Veen instead.

Ensign/Lieutenant JG Sidney La Forge

Ensign/Lieutenant JG Sidney La Forge

Played by: Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut

The helm officer of the Titan-A/Enterprise-G and the daughter of former Enterprise-D/E Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge.

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• Ace Pilot: Notwithstanding her nickname (see below), she's quite adept at piloting the Titan-A.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When her father refuses to help Picard, she calls him to the carpet for being unwilling to help both his biological and his found family.
• Captain Crash: She crashed two shuttles at the Academy, earning her the Embarrassing Nickname "Crash" La Forge, as noted by Riker when they meet.
• Ensign Newbie: Relatively new to Starfleet, but played with as her father (Geordi) told her plenty about his experiences.
• Foil:
  • To her sister Alandra. Both are the daughters of their father Geordi and have an affinity for engineering. Alandra is an engineering officer who works with her father in the Fleet Museum, while Sidney is a tactical officer working as the helm officer and pilot of the USS Titan-A. While Alandra follows her father's footsteps as an engineer and is by-the-book with the rules, Sidney decides to be a pilot and actively refuses to follow her father's engineering roots, willing to stray away from the rules at the very least for the good of her other crewmates.
  • Similarly, she also contrasts to her father, as both of them are the crew members of their own ship and have a found family. Geordi initially refuses to help Picard and the rest of his old crewmates, while Sidney sees the rest of her Titan-A crewmates as her family and is willing to help them, something that her father once believed during his term in the Enterprise-D. The entire conversation below during "The Bounty" sums up how different she is to her father and Alandra.
    Sidney: I grew up listening to your adventures. All the times you and Picard stood up for what was right.
    Geordi: That was a different time.
    Sidney: No! It is you and I that are different. I'm not Alandra. I'm not an engineer like you. You built amazing things. But me? I just wanted to fly them. You took that as me rejecting you but I always thought it brought us closer together.
    Geordi: Sidney! Have you any idea how we felt when this ship went missing? Hmm? Now you're out here on the run, jeopardizing your future, your entire life!
    Sidney: I'm on the run with my crew!
    Geordi: They're not your family!
    Sidney: Yes, they are. And you taught me that. And I'm not scared to step up and help them. You are.
• Friendless Background: Like her father, Sidney mentions that she had a hard time making friends when she decided to become a pilot rather than an engineer.
• Generation Xerox: Played with. While she is gifted in engineering like her father, she chose to become a pilot instead, like he was during TNG's first season.
• Gone Horribly Right: Her and Jack stealing the Bird-of-Prey's cloaking device allowed the Titan-A to have cloaking. But their efforts set off an automated security alert, putting the rest of the ship's crew including herself on Starfleet's radar.
• Heroic BSoD: After being freed from the collective, she bursts out crying in front of Seven, who comforts her.
• Irony: She is a Wrench Wench who inherits her father's giftedness for engineering. But during the events of "The Bounty", she and Jack almost overloaded the cloaking device from the Bird-of-Prey and her father arrived to fix it and make it functional.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Partly gender-flipped. Her father is an engineer during his term in the Enterprise-D/E. Sidney, on the other hand, is a tactical officer, specifically as the helm officer and the pilot of the Titan-A/Enterprise-G, which was a trait that her father embodied in TNG's first season when he started as a tactical officer to the Enterprise-D. Unlike her rule-abiding father (Geordi), Sidney is also willing to commit minor larceny, as shown when she and Jack stole the Bird-of-Prey's cloaking device, which pisses her father off since their actions directly led Starfleet to come after them.
• Military Brat: Comes from a line of Starfleet officers.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After being suddenly freed from Borg mind control, she's horrified upon seeing that she's pointing a phaser set to kill at Seven. She breaks down crying as she apologises.
• Rank Up: Look carefully during the last scene, she's a junior grade Lieutenant.

Ensign Kova Esmar

Ensign Kova Rin Esmar

Played by: Jin Maley

The Titan-A's Haliian communications officer.

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• Mauve Shirt: Almost gets this treatment, with Vadic forcing them to their knees in "Surrender", before she executes T'Veen instead.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: Is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, much like their actor.invoked
• Tears of Fear: Ends up driven to tears when Vadic has the bridge crew at her mercy and forces them to listen to their shipmates being hunted down and slaughtered by the rogue Changelings, and again when Vadic threatens to execute them or Lt. Mura (and ends up executing Lt. T'Veen instead).

Ensign Jack Crusher Jr.

Ensign Jack Crusher Jr.

"Yep, I'm definitely a Constitution-class man."

Played by: Ed Speleers

The son of Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard, the half-brother of Wesley Crusher, and the target of an alleged Bounty Hunter named Vadic.

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• The Antichrist: Through the machinations of the Borg over his entire life thanks to Picard's prior transformation into Locutus, Jack ends up becoming the "Voice" of the Collective^note or simply "Vox", a greater manifestation of their long-rooted desire to achieve perfection; the consequence of which puts the entirety of the Federation and the galaxy in danger of being assimilated on a frighteningly massive scale unseen.
• The Casanova: He admits to being hated by "the fathers of daughters everywhere". He also expresses an attraction to Sidney La Forge.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To his half-brother, Wesley Crusher. Wesley was a Child Prodigy whose father was a Starfleet Officer that was killed in action when he was a boy, Jack is a crafty thief whose father was the legendary Admiral Jean-Luc Picard—a father of whom he never knew personally. Wesley was a rule-follower, Jack is a rule breaker. Both believe in doing what's right, but Wesley spent so many years unsure of himself, even under Picard's tutelage, before he eventually forged his own path as a Traveler, while Jack is willing to do the right thing even if it breaks the rules, is far more sure of himself, and only had his mother to guide him. Moreover, while Wesley was willing to be with Picard more despite the fact that he initially blamed the man for his father's death, Jack was given the chance to know his father and chose not to. He also has special gifts like his brother, but Wesley was an intelligent young man who suffered from a lack of confidence, while Jack is more cunning, but actually has something inside him that's giving him actual powers. Wesley was recruited by the Travelers to help protect history, Jack was made the living transmitter for The Borg to put all young officers under their control so they could take control of the fleet and wipe out Earth.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Beverly mentions that Jack used to have horrific nightmares as a child, and couldn't sleep as a result—and he's still having horrible visions in the present. It's later revealed that it's Irumodic Syndrome passed down from his father that's been plaguing him, though Vadic reveals that it's something far more than that. In the end it's revealed he's, for the lack of a better descriptor, a second-generation Borg who inherited Organic Technology passed down from Picard's tampered genetics from back when he was Locutus.
• Dead Guy Junior: Named after Beverly's first husband and Picard's best friend, KIA on the Stargazer eleven years before TNG began.
• Despair Event Horizon: Suffers a massive one once he realizes his true nature as a Manchurian Agent of the Borg Collective and tries to confront it, only to fail when he sees he actually cannot will himself to resist the Queen despite his determination and belief that killing her will be for the greater good. He was willing to remain assimilated simply because the euphoria of the Collective finally brought him peace, until his father's willingness to stay with his son snapped him out of it.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: After spending his entire life yearning for connection, Jack learns he's destined to be The Borg's "Vox" to put Starfleet under their control and wipe them out with their own fleet. But because his father reached out and offered him a genuine connection of family, Jack was able to break free, help wipe The Borg out once and for all, and join Starfleet as the special counsel to Captain Seven of Nine onboard his personal favorite ship, a Constitution class—The Enterprise-G herself!
• Expy: To David Marcus, Kirk's son from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. They're both the sons of their respective big-name captains who took their mother's last name and want nothing to do with their fathers for having not been in their lives—the big difference being that Kirk tried but Carol wouldn't let him, but Picard had no idea Jack even existed. They're also the victims of both men's biggest enemies; David dies at the hand of the Klingons, leaving Kirk with a deep rooted hatred of them, while Jack was unknowingly made as a weapon of the Borg to assimilate all of Starfleet, made possible by their assimilation of Picard 35 years earlier. Thankfully, Picard saves Jack, while Kirk's failure to save David haunted him for the rest of his life.
• Fanboy: Ironically, despite being the son of his successor, he's a big one of Kirk and his Enterprise, describing himself as a "Constitution class man" to Seven. Then he actually gets to serve on the Enterprise, and a (Neo) Constitution no less!
• Foreshadowing: His British accent, combined with a surprise knack for diplomacy, hinted at his father's identity before the man even walked into his life. Riker and Picard both figured it out quickly, though the latter is a bit hesitant to accept the truth at first.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Picard asks why Jack sounds British (despite being raised by a mother with an American accent), Beverly mentions that he attended school in London and never dropped the accent, no doubt referring to initial fan complaints about The Next Generation about a French captain who spoke with a British accent.
• Like Father, Like Son: While Jack doesn't think fondly of his old man, in "The Bounty", he gives a Patrick Stewart Speech to Seven about everyone yearning for connection while the Titan-A is hiding at the Fleet Museum, which Seven lampshades that Jack is definitely his father's son. And not only does he follow in his footsteps by signing up to serve in Starfleet (onboard an Enterprise no less), he's greeted by Q with a warning about an impending trial...
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his father, who's best known as a diplomat and a statesmen who adheres strictly to rules of conduct and honor, Jack is much more of a Lovable Rogue along the lines of Han Solo, who's willing to break the rules if it means helping others, using his natural charms to sly his way towards his goals.
• Nepotism: Discussed and Defied. Jack worries he was only let into Starfleet because he's the son of two famous Admirals, but Picard assures him that Jack got there on his own merits.
• Noodle Incident: Jack mentions multiple run-ins with agents of Vadic's conspiracy. We only get the broad strokes from Jack, along with a flashback, but they serve to illustrate how long the Crushers have been on the run and how extensive the conspiracy is.
• Practically Different Generations: Considering that Jack is the half-brother of Wesley, Jack is in his 20s while Wesley is thirty years older than him, who is in his 50s.
• The Reveal: Three in two episodes:
  • He is Beverly Crusher's son.
  • His name is Jack.
  • He is Jean-Luc Picard's son.
  • The penultimate episode reveals Jack is a "second-generation Borg" due to Organic Technology passed down from Picard due to the tampering that made him Locutus of Borg still existing in his genetics and that he's the lynchpin of the Borg's plan to assimilate Starfleet for good due to a very elaborate Trojan Horse scheme.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He and his mother have been traveling about the galaxy delivering medical supplies to planets in need, regardless of how many rules and regulations it may break along the way.
• Walking Spoiler: Very few details were given about this character prior to the show's release, aside from the fact that he would be working with Beverly on something. Even knowing his name gives away plot points.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Jack's incredulous reaction to Picard's insistence that they open a dialogue with the Shrike and find out who they are and what they want, when it's currently targeting every system on the ship and has weapons armed.
• You're Not My Father: His father is still alive, but even when Beverly encouraged him to seek Jean-Luc out, he refused for whatever reason. It's later revealed he did seek Picard out, but Picard unknowingly told his son that "Starfleet [was] the only family [he] needed", and stopped trying after that. The season has him eventually come around and accept Picard as his old man.

U.S.S. Titan NCC-80102-A/U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-G

U.S.S. Titan NCC-80102-A/U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-G

"Names mean almost everything."

— Ensign Jack Crusher Jr, "The Last Generation"

The successor to the U.S.S. Titan that was once commanded by William T. Riker, the vessel is a modern update to the classic Constitution-class from the 23rd century, now named the Neo-Constitution or the Constitution III-class.

Captain Shaw notes in "Disengage" that the Titan-A has a crew of five hundred.

Following the final defeat of the Borg, the ship is rechristened the U.S.S. Enterprise, continuing its iconic legacy.

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• All There in the Manual: According to the Instagram logs for the show, the original Titan was a Shangri-La-class from the 2290s commanded by Captain Saavik, with her ship being made the flagship under Sulu's recommendation until the commissioning of the Enterprise-B. As for the Luna-class Titan, that ship was severely damaged in 2398 and subsequently retired, with some of her components going into her Constitution III-class successor.
• Breaking Old Trends:
  • She's the first Constitution class vessel since the A to bear the name Enterprise, rather than a newer, larger ship taking over the mantle like before.
  • She's the first Legacy Character to take up another ship's legacy when she was already carrying one (in this case, going from Titan to Enterprise.
  • She's the first Enterprise to be captained by a main character from another Trek series, in this case, Seven of Nine.
• Canon Immigrant: Not her, but her predecessor, the NCC-1777, was a Shangri-La class vessel designed by Bill Krause for a fan contest that made its way into the Ships of the Line calendar. The model of that Titan is on display in this Titan's observation lounge.
• Composite Character: She's named after the Titan, a Luna-class vessel from the 24th Century (and even has some of her components), but is a 23rd century design of the old Constitution and Excelsior-classes updated to 25th-century standards. She later borrows elements from the Enterprise-A, being a new Constitution that took the name of the flagship after her predecessor bowed out, named in honor of a previous crew's actions in saving Earth.
• Cool Ship: She's a modern update to the Constitution line, and she looks just as good as her predecessors, thanks to all the latest advancements in shipbuilding technology. And now she's not just any ship; she's the Enterprise!
• Critical Staffing Shortage: Multiple crew members get a Kill and Replace from Changeling infiltrators and die in subsequent battles with the Shrike early in the third season, before much of the crew are transferred off to the U.S.S. Intrepid midway through the season in "Imposters", and then many (if not most) of the remainder lose their lives at the end of "Dominion" and through "Surrender" when Vadic hijacks the ship and orders her Changeling mooks to Leave No Survivors until Jack Crusher yields himself to her. By the last couple of episodes, the ship is lucky to even have a crew at all, outside of the Plot Armored main characters.
• Foreshadowing: When hiding at the Fleet Museum, she's parked in a ring between the Enterprise-A and the Stargazer — the only surviving TOS era Enterprise and the previous command of Jean-Luc Picard respectively. It sets up three things at the end of the series:
  1. The fact she's next to the previous Constitution that bore the name Enterprise hints she's going to take up the mantle.
  2. The empty ring means there's a ship set to be placed there, and Geordi has a project being worked on in Hangar Bay 12, which turns out to be the Enterprise-D. Not only is the D placed in that ring in the finale, but the Titan-A is renamed to the Enterprise-G, meaning that the newest holder of the name was really keeping the place warm for its predecessor.
  3. The Stargazer was the first ship Picard commanded, and his son Jack happens to be on the Titan at that time. At the end of the series, he's posted to the Enterprise.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: The Titan is faced with the prospect of fighting the entire Federation fleet with a minimal crew and an army of brainwashed Borg drones bearing down on them. All Seven can do is try to strafe the fleet in between using the ship's cloaking device so they can by enough time for Picard and the Enterprise-D crew to take out The Borg. Luckily, they're able to do so before the brainwashed crewmembers can retake the bridge.
• Legacy Character: She's the second ship to bear the name Titan — third, if you count the one active in the 23rd century, although she's not part of the same lineage as the later two — and the third lead ship of a series to be of the prestigious Constitution-class started by the original Enterprise. She then is subsequently the ninth ship in Starfleet, and the eight in the Federation, to be named Enterprise.
• Meaningful Rename: She's rechristened as the Enterprise-G after the final battle with the assimilated fleet, in honor of the Enterprise-D crew's efforts.
• Origins Episode: Season 3 of Picard, according to Terry Matalas, is how the Titan-A became the Enterprise-G.
• Stealth Pun: Her new designation has the seventh letter of the alphabet to denote the ninth vessel in Starfleet to become the Enterprise. Who's her Captain? Seven of Nine!
• Stylistic Callback: After the destruction of the USS Odyssey by the Jem'Hadar, Starfleet ships adopted more modular designs without prominent "necks" connecting the saucer and stardrive sections for subsequent ships (e.g. the Intrepid and Sovereign classes). This ship, being a Constitution III-class, hearkens back to classic Starfleet designs.
• Took a Level in Badass: As of "The Bounty", the ship can now cloak, courtesy of a device "borrowed" from the Fleet Museum's resident Klingon bird-of-prey, the HMS Bounty, and hooked into the Titan's systems. Not that it does much good keeping the ship from being captured by Vadic in the very next episode. It does, however, let her use Hit-and-Run Tactics against the assimilated fleet while avoiding the control of "Fleet Formation" until it gets destroyed. Nevertheless, her display of badassery did earn her a new name...the name Enterprise.

Starfleet

In General

The primary exploration branch of The United Federation of Planets, known for their various exploits across the galaxy, of whom Jean-Luc Picard served for many years.

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• Aesop Amnesia: Against Geordi's objections, Starfleet implements a system that links all of their ships together. With the Control, the ''Texas'' class, Living Construct, and Utopia Planetia incidents on record, not to mention the dozens of AI malfunctions like the M-5 computer, or even Data himself, one would think they would avoid doing something like this, though it's implied several Dominion infiltrators ensured they'd push for it anyway. Predictably, The Borg are able to take control of the entire fleet using this method.
• Big Good: They still serve as this in the Trek universe, which is why Picard resigned in disgust when they refused to help the Romulans following the terrorist attack on Mars, believing them to be a broken shell of what they once stood for.
• Broken Pedestal: After Picard resigns, Starfleet thinks very little of their old Captain, having come to despise how he turned their backs on them during their hour of need. Naturally, when he criticizes them on live tv, then comes to them for aid, they shoo him away without a second thought, and stonewall him until he comes back with actual proof of his claims. It eventually becomes a Rebuilt Pedestal when Picard and his new crew expose the truth behind the Mars Attack, and make him the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy.
• Dawn of an Era: With the final defeat of The Borg and the exposing of the Changeling imposters in Starfleet, the organization enters 2402 with a brand new Spacedock to replace the one destroyed last year, and with a new Enterprise to finally move on into the final frontier with the demons of the past behind them.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • According to Seven of Nine, Starfleet denied her entry to join on the grounds she was ex-Borg, despite Janeway's protests. They reverse their decision years later and make her the first officer of the Titan-A.
  • In 2385, they imposed a ban on all synthetic lifeforms, which resulted in B-4 being disassembled and left in the Daystrom Institute, the shut down of other such beings such as The Doctor, and even rendering a technology that would have helped to treat Thaddeus Riker's silicone-based virus unavailable, resulting in his passing. Fortunately, they lift the ban after they learn the Zhat Vash caused the attack on Mars.
• Flaunting Your Fleets: On Frontier Day, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the launch of the Enterprise NX-01, Starfleet has all of its vessels gathered at Earth to form in a synchronous pattern under the soon-to-be-decommissioned Enterprise-F for her final shakedown. Unfortunately for them, The Borg and the rogue Changelings use this to take control of all Starfleet officers under 25, then hijack the fleet to start targeting Earth. Luckily, the Enterprise-D crew pulls their old ship out of the Fleet Museum and stops The Borg before they can fire on Earth's population.
• Idiot Ball: Starfleet were clearly warned by Geordi not to install a system that allows all ships to be linked together, due to its obvious flaws. Had they listened to Geordi, the Borg would never be able to control all of their fleet and destroy Earth. Instead, they ignored his advice and went along with its installation, resulting in the Borg controlling the entire fleet and almost destroyed all of Earth.
• Karma Houdini: Section 31, their blacks-op division, is revealed to have created the enhanced Changelings led by Vadic—the same Changelings who nearly wiped Starfleet off the map by infiltrating the group so The Borg could wipe them out. Despite this incredibly stupid mistake, there's no indication that they were disbanded, or that the ones responsible were punished.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: Besides the Enterprise and Voyager, they also have a new Excelsior, Stargazer, and Titan that have carried on the names of the ships that came beforehand.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • While they had pragmatic reasons for doing so, their refusal to help Romulus evacuate after the terrorist attack on Mars results in Ambassador Spock having to rush to find a solution to stop the supernova. He does so, but too late to keep it from annihilating Romulus and Remus. This weaponizes one of the survivors, a mad Romulan miner named Nero, who gets sucked into a wormhole created by the Red Matter's use on the supernova while he's trying to kill Spock. He then arrives in the year 2233, destroys the USS Kelvin, and creates an alternate timeline where The Federation is left paranoid of another attack to the point they're desparate enough to use Khan Noonien Singh as an agent. Not only that, but it results in the deaths of George Kirk, Christopher Pike, and even the entire planet of Vulcan, while also leaving Spock stranded there for the rest of his life. And the worst part? It proves Nero utterly right.
  • Their synth ban in 2385 not only caused the death of Thaddeus Riker because they rendered the technology that would have treated his disease illegal, but it caused all the synths that Doctor Altan Soong had built to nearly unleash a horror from the unknown on the galaxy to destroy all organic life.
  • They decide to make all of their ships operate on the same system, allowing for synchronous control. Despite Geordi's objections to the obvious flaw in the system, they go through with it...and The Borg are almost able to wipe out Earth by taking control of their entire fleet very easily.
  • Section 31 takes several Changeling prisoners and uses them for experiments to make them able to shapeshift down to the molecular level, even feigning blood and organs. Said Changelings escape, become vindictive enough to want to destroy Starfleet, and forge an unholy alliance with The Borg to spend years infiltrating their enemy to make them vulnerable enough to a Collective takeover. It also retroactively applies to Deep Space Nine, as the fact they infected the Changelings with a virus that would kill them just so they could win the war only incentivized them to ally with the Borg in the first place.
• Outliving One's Offspring: A ship example. The Excelsior of the 25th century is annihilated by The Borg-hijacked fleet when she breaks free and tries to make a run for it, thus leaving the original NCC-2000 as the sole survivor of the name courtesy of her being retired to the Fleet Museum.
• Retired Badass: The Enterprise-A, the Enterprise NX-01, the Stargazer, the Voyager, the second Defiant, the Excelsior, and (eventually) the Enterprise-D, are among the most legendary Starfleet vessels now serving a comfortable retirement at the Fleet Museum at Athan Prime. Geordi is forced to pull the D out before her restoration is nearly complete so he and his old crew can try to stop The Borg. She does just that, and is put back into retirement.
• Saved by Canon: Despite The Borg and the splinter Dominion faction's attempts to wipe out Starfleet on its 250th anniversary, the group was never in any real danger, since Discovery confirmed they survived into the 32nd century despite The Burn battering them so badly.
• Shoot the Dog: They initially were going to help Romulus evacuate when they learned about the Hobus Supernova, but they pulled out in 2385 when a terrorist attack on Mars destroyed the shipyards and the planned evacuation fleet. While Picard and a few others protested, they stood by their decision on the grounds that Romulus was still their oldest enemy; in danger or not, they weren't willing to let bygones be bygones after centuries of mutual distrust, especially since 14 member worlds were threatening to leave The Federation if they went through with trying to help them. Not only that, but they were still licking their wounds after the terrorist attack and the Dominion War. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't help.
• Took a Level in Cynic: The Federation of 2399 is far more distrustful and less open towards the galaxy than they were in 2379, having initiated a galaxy-wide ban on synthetic lifeforms and lost all faith in the legendary Jean-Luc Picard for his resignation in the wake of the Utopia Planetia attack. The former is slowly explained via Lower Decks and Prodigy that the Badgey, AGIMUS, Ensign Peanut Hamper, Texas class, and Living Construct Incidents helped cause Starfleet to become far more distrustful of synthetic lifeforms, with the final nail in the coffin being the destruction of the Mars shipyards, while it's also implied that the horrors of The Dominion War gave them a more isolationist attitude.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Picard gives them a very scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech on live tv denouncing how they so quickly abandoned Romulus due to the terrorist attack on Mars. This bites him in the ass when he goes to them for help, and they quickly chew him out for abandoning them when they were at their lowest point.

Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy

Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy

Played by: Ann Magnuson

Starfleet's commander-in-chief and an old friend/acquaintance of Jean-Luc Picard's.

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• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Is not heard from or mentioned after Season One. May be a case of Put on a Bus, if she retired, but not even that detail is provided.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she is extremely harsh towards Picard for his calling out of Starfleet for their refusal to aid Romulus, it eventually sinks in to him that her criticisms about his own self-righteousness were spot on; he was refusing to see the bigger picture (i.e. The Federation couldn't afford to lose member worlds trying to save their oldest enemy when they were still hobbling from a terrorist attack) and walked out in disgust over personal honor instead of trying to stand with the very organization he served in their time of need.
• I Did What I Had to Do: When Picard calls her out for abandoning the rescue efforts of Romulus, Clancy hits back that fourteen different species threatened to pull out of the Federation if Starfleet went through with the rescue, and that was before rogue synthetics destroyed Mars and the Romulan evacuation fleet. The decision she made was ugly, but made for the security of the Federation.
• No Mere Windmill: Picard throws this one at her when he updates her on his search for Soji. And to her credit, she acknowledges that in this one instance, Don Quixote was actually right.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While she is an unhelpful Starfleet admiral to Picard at first, she's Properly Paranoid enough to check up on what Picard claimed instead of dismissing it entirely and has decent reasons to dislike him personally. When she then learns that Picard is right about Zhat Vash, she sends a squadron of ships to rendezvous with him at Deep Space 12, which wind up saving the day at Coppelius.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Picard requests that his commission be reinstated and he be given a ship all of two days after giving a scathing speech criticizing Starfleet on a live news feed, Clancy gives him the mother of all dressing downs, calling Picard out for his pride and self-righteousness before turning down his request.
  "The sheer fucking hubris."
• Sadistic Choice: Either cut the Romulans loose in their time of need, or let the Federation fracture. She chose the former, although not until the synth attack made the rescue plan nonviable.
• Shout-Out: Her first name comes from Picard writer, producer, and Star Trek Expanded Universe novelist Kirsten Beyer.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Downplayed as she's a lighter example compared to most, but in the formerly PG-rated Star Trek franchise, she has a tendency to drop Precision F Strikes right on Picard's head.
  Clancy: Admiral Picard, with all due respect, and at long last — shut the fuck up.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Admiral Nechayev from TNG. Very much an Iron Lady archetype, and not afraid to talk down Picard.
• We Used to Be Friends: The familiar way she and Picard address each other implies that they were, if not friends, then at least friendly.^note There is a female ensign from the original TNG named Clancy who just so happens to look a lot like the Admiral, so she may have actually served under Picard. By the time they meet in the present, Clancy is enraged by what she sees as Picard's self-righteousness and his disgust with Starfleet's policies.

Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby

Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby

Played by: Elizabeth Dennehy

A veteran of Starfleet Tactical with a specialty in Borg expertise, Shelby worked with Picard and the Enterprise-D to stop the first Borg incursion. Ambitious even then, Shelby has since risen to the rank of Fleet Admiral and now commands the Enterprise-F for Frontier Day celebrations.

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• Back for the Dead: Shelby returns as the commanding officer of the Enterprise-F. Sadly, she is last seen getting shot twice in the chest by her assimilated crew before the transmission cuts out.
• Death by Irony: During "The Best of Both Worlds", Shelby was one of Starfleet's leading Borg experts and survived the first Borg incursion. Now, over 30 years later, the Collective ends up killing her (and using Borg-esque tactics and technology Shelby herself unwittingly championed).
• Irony: Picard lampshades the irony of Admiral Shelby, who pioneered anti-Borg technology, would be promoting Fleet Formation, an inherently Borg-like technology (that is actually Borg tech).
• Named in the Sequel: Picard canonizes her long-used apocryphal first name of "Elizabeth", which firstly appears in Peter David's novel Star Trek: New Frontier, after only been known by her surname for nearly 30 years. This also retroactively makes her The Danza.
• Rank Up: Last seen as a captain in Star Trek: Lower Decks, by 2401 she has risen to the rank of Fleet Admiral, seemingly replacing Kirsten Clancy as Commander-in-Cheif of Starfleet.
• Uncertain Doom: Post-show Word of God statements from showrunner Terry Matalas have thrown water on whether Shelby is in fact dead or not. Two phaser blasts to the chest is indeed a pretty serious, possibly fatal injury, but also survivable in a Star Trek show.

Admiral Kathryn Janeway

The former commanding officer of the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656, the U.S.S. Dauntless NCC-80816, and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656-A, Janeway was subsequently promoted to Vice Admiral upon returning to Federation space after an arduous seven year journey across the Delta Quadrant. She's been quite busy since she returned, but she's still a prominent figure in The Federation.

For tropes relating to her prior appearances, see here and and here.

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• Famed In-Story: Given her exploits in the Delta Quadrant, she's quite a legendary figure (and a very busy one at that).
• The Ghost: Despite being mentioned a fair amount of times by both Picard and Seven, the Admiral doesn't put in an appearance in the series proper.^note She was planned to appear, but she wasn't allowed to as a result of her presence on Prodigy.
• Hero of Another Story: The Admiral who explored the Delta Quadrant currently has her own set of adventures with a young group of officers a few years before the series started that have yet to play out. Even then, when Picard suggest that Ro go to Janeway with evidence of the Changeling's plot, Ro mentions that she's tried, but has been stymied at every turn under claims that Janeway's "busy".
• Legacy Vessel Naming: Her old command, Voyager, has been comfortably preserved at the Fleet Museum at Athan Prime. While Prodigy indicated that she already had a successor ship ready to go (the Lamarr class A) by 2384, a Pathfinder class Voyager-B was brought online by the 25th century, setting the stage for when Discovery has the J acting as Starfleet's flagship.
• Mirror Character: Both she and Picard were admirals that threatened to resign from Starfleet (her over them refusing to admit Seven, him over them abandoning the Romulans), but she stayed because Seven gave up and left on her own, while Picard's resignation was accepted and he was shown the door. It took Picard years to rebuild his damaged reputation, while Janeway remained the storied hero of Starfleet, even decades later.
• A Mother to Her Men: Janeway was not pleased that Starfleet wouldn't accept Seven on account of her being an ex-Borg, to the point she almost resigned before Seven gave up and joined the Fenris Rangers instead.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her future self from "Endgame" gave the Voyager crew the means to cripple, if not outright destroy, The Borg while finally getting them home. It worked...but the very vengeful Queen, clinging to dear life by sucking the energy out of what was left from her collective, elected to unleash total annihilation on Starfleet by assimilating their young through more subtle means, then taking over their entire fleet to wipe out Earth in revenge against their decades worth of defeat. If it hadn't been for Picard and the Enterprise-D crew's heroics, The Borg would have won. (On the other hand, their combined efforts seem to have neutralized the Borg threat for good. At least until another writer decides to bring them back.)
• Noodle Incident: Apparently Raffi stalked Janeway to try and get her to support her claims that the Mars Attack was part of a grander conspiracy.
• Small Role, Big Impact: While Janeway doesn't appear in the series, she does play a subtle role in Seven's journey to the captaincy. When Voyager got back from the Delta Quadrant, Janeway fought to get Seven into Starfleet, but they wouldn't budge on account of her being ex-Borg. This led Seven to join the Fenris Rangers instead, putting her on the path towards eventually meeting Jean-Luc Picard (a mutual acquaintance of Janeway's) and joining him on his mission, which soon led her towards finally being allowed to join Starfleet thanks to her help in exposing a major conspiracy and forging an alliance with a friendly faction of Borg, which in turn would result in Seven helping to save all of Starfleet from the Borg once more and being promoted to Captain of the Enterprise.

Rear Admiral Beverly Crusher

Rear Admiral Dr. Beverly Crusher

Played by: Gates McFadden

The former Chief Medical Officer onboard the Enterprise-D and -E, who's had a tense romantic history with Picard. Having suddenly cut herself off from her friends and former colleagues, she's since begun traveling throughout the galaxy to aid those in medical distress. After the battle with the Changeling/Borg alliance, she was appointed head of the Starfleet medical branch and championed the tech to remove Borg tech from the junior officers and improve Changeling detection systems.

For tropes relating to her prior appearances, see the ''TNG'' character page.

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• Absurdly Elderly Mother: Beverly Crusher was born in 2324, and Jack was born somewhere around 2380. Do the math. That would make Dr Crusher about 56 when she had Jack.
• Amicable Exes: Played With. She and Picard had a lot of Unresolved Sexual Tension during TNG, but they ultimately decided not to act on it. Nevertheless, she's at least willing to give him a call for help, as the trailer for Season 3 reveals she sent a distress signal specifically to him for help. However, it's later revealed she cut herself off from all of her old crewmates, but she still calls Picard because he's the only one she can trust.
• Anger Born of Worry: As much as she cares for Picard, she couldn't stomach the idea of raising a family with him because there always seemed to be a target on his back.
• The Bus Came Back: In Season 3 of this show, she makes her first return in person^note She did voice acting for PRO: "Kobayashi" since 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis. (Crusher is actually the last core cast member of TNG to reprise her role; Worf became a regular on DS9, Geordi had a cameo on VOY: "Timeless," and Picard, Data, Riker and Troi all showed up in PIC Season 1.)
• Combat Medic: A group of mysterious pursuers board her ship. She disintegrates them both. She also became proficient at Tactical on the Enterprise D, shooting down Borg artillery and turrets. Earning long gazes from Deanna, Geordi and Data in the process.
• Crossing the Burnt Bridge: It's mentioned that she suddenly abandoned her old Enterprise crewmates without warning, and cut off communication with them. Season 3 opens with her calling Picard, whom she hasn't spoken with in decades and is mentioned to have broken things off with him specifically because they could never resolve their feelings for one another, to rescue her from mysterious forces.
• Human Popsicle: After she's gravely wounded, she puts herself in stasis until Picard comes to her aid.
• Mama Bear: She locks the only other passenger on her ship to keep him safe. Said passenger happens to be her son.
• My Secret Pregnancy: She got pregnant and gave birth to Jack Crusher (Picard's son) on her last shore leave with Picard and nobody knew about it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Beverly swore never to take a life, and she and Picard even note that they've already compromised enough morals this mission, but she and her old Captain both agree that they need to execute Vadic simply because she's too dangerous. Unfortunately, she escapes before they can do so.
• Properly Paranoid: In her distress call to Picard, she begs him not to get Starfleet involved. Picard is forced to anyway (albeit covertly), and only tells Riker and later Seven. Despite the extreme secrecy, she still gets found out. It's later revealed that she and her son were targeted by men wearing Starfleet uniforms, making her warning all the more urgent. The fact that a splinter faction from The Dominion — the very same group that nearly wiped out The Federation decades ago and are lead by shapeshifting aliens — means she was right to keep things under wraps.
• Rank Up: She is promoted to rear admiral after her role in saving Earth and defeating the Borg Queen.
• Silver Fox: Her red hair has faded to grey since she was last seen, but she still looks stunning well into her late 70s.
• Took a Level in Badass: Beverly was usually the one fixing up wounds—now, she's the one inflicting lethal kill shots on would-be-boarders invading her ship. On the Enterprise-D, she effortlessly—and manually—launches a volley of photon torpedoes and phaser fire on a Borg cube, inflicting a lot of damage and leaving her friends stunned.
  Dr. Beverly Crusher: A lots happened in the last twenty years.
• We Used to Be Friends: She suddenly cut herself off from contact with all of her former Enterprise crewmates 20 years prior to the series, with everyone shocked at her sudden departure. Picard believes its because they never could resolve the underlying issues they had with their attempted relationship. The fact that the two of them had a son that Picard never new about may have had something to do with it. Ultimately, she reveals that as badly as she wanted to tell Picard, the fact he kept constantly getting in danger resulted in her deciding otherwise.
  • This also applies to her oldest son, Wesley, whom she seems to consider as being dead (she lists him along side her parents and Wesley's father who are long since gone) despite being very much still alive and having the power to travel through time and space to visit her (and did in Nemesis). Its unclear what happened there, how long they've not spoken, or if Wes even knows if he has a kid brother.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Beverly reveals she ultimately did not reveal Jack's existence to Picard because the Admiral constantly had a target on his back, and she didn't want to live a life she thought he would never get up. Picard turns it right back around on her and says that she never gave him that chance to be a father, and had he known, he would have taken it.

Commodore Geordi La Forge

Commodore Geordi La Forge

Played by: LeVar Burton

The former Chief Engineer of the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E under Picard, and the best friend of the late Commander Data, who has since risen the ranks in Starfleet and had a family of his own, in addition to tending the Fleet Museum.

For tropes relating to his prior appearances, see the ''TNG'' character page.

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• All There in the Manual: Supplemental material for Picard verified that he was the one who oversaw the construction of the evacuation fleet on Mars prior to the Zhat Vash's terrorist attack. Evidently, he either escaped unscathed or was off-planet when the assault occurred, unlike over 95,000 others who lost their lives.
• Anger Born of Worry: When his old Captain stops by to ask for his help, he's seen talking frustratedly with Picard for having "roped in" the other former Enterprise officers to help him on a highly dangerous mission (to say nothing of his daughter Sidney).
• The Bus Came Back: He makes his return for the first time since Star Trek: Nemesis in Season 3's episode "Bounty".
• Deadpan Snarker: True to form, he still has his dry wit about him. He's a bit stunned, yet not very surprised, that Picard had talked Riker and Worf into helping him on another mission, let alone his own daughter.
• Electronic Eyes: He has more advanced models of these to help him see.
• The Engineer: His previous position on both the Enterprise-D and E was the Chief Engineer, which made him ideal to become Curator of the Fleet Museum. His skills never dulled for an instant, as he not only helps his daughters to install a 23rd century cloaking device from a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey onto the Titan-A, but he reveals to his teammates he'd been restoring the Enterprise-D for the last 20 years practically by himself.
• Family Man: He's had two daughters since the audience has last seen him. One of them, Sidney, serves on the Titan.
• Foreshadowing: Alandra suggests that he loan out a project in "Hangar Bay 12" to give to Picard, but he immediately shoots down that idea. It turns out that inside that hangar was the restored Enterprise-D, which he had been repairing since her crash on Veridian III for over 20 years, only busting the old girl out of storage when the situation called for it. If anything, his snide remark towards the Enterprise-E being unusable because of Worf implies he would have preferred not to put the D at risk given how long he'd been working towards repairing her.
• Four-Star Badass: The lowest form of flag officer, but a flag officer nonetheless. He is a badass commodore come Picard season 3.
• Heroic BSoD: He admits to Daystrom M-5-10 during Lore's rampage that Data's death in Nemesis broke him in a desparate attempt to get his old friend to take control of the android.
• Hypocrite: He gives Worf a lot of grief for whatever happened to the Enterprise-E, but it was because of him letting his visor get hacked that the D got destroyed in the first place. At least he rectified that mistake by rebuilding her.
• Ignored Expert: Despite the fact he was the Chief Engineer of two of Starfleet's major flagships, the closet expert to all things related to Soong-type androids that anyone could find, and the caretaker of every historical ship Starfleet had preserved at the Fleet Museum, Geordi is ignored when he suggests that integrating all of their ships is a terrible idea. The Borg using said system to take control of the whole fleet and nearly annihilate Earth only proves him right.
• Manly Facial Hair: With both a well-trimmed beard and a pretty high rank in Starfleet, Geordi is the walking definition of this trope.
• Papa Wolf: Both of his daughters may be in Starfleet, but he will not take their safety lightly. He refuses to help Picard on the grounds that it's too risky for his family, though he's convinced otherwise.
• Properly Paranoid: Geordi was against Starfleet using an integrated system with all their ships, as it didn't take a genius-level engineer to know that someone could take control of the entire fleet and use it against them. He was also against the idea of the entirety of said fleet being gathered at Earth for Frontier Day. Alas, Starfleet didn't listen...and then they nearly got wiped out by The Borg precisely because they ignored Geordi's warnings. It proves handy when he has his old crew borrow the Enterprise-D from the Fleet Museum, as it was the only operational ship there not tied to the Fleet Network.
• Rank Up: Last seen as a Commander, he's since risen to the rank of Commodore.
• Refusal of the Call: When Picard shows up to the Fleet Museum, Geordi does not want to help him, let alone on a very dangerous mission that puts both of his daughters in danger. Sidney talks him into changing his mind (well, that and she stole the cloaking device off the HMS Bounty, forcing him to tag along anyway).
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Though he's known as a Nice Guy overall, Geordi bitterly tries to turn Picard away when the Titan-A shows up at the Fleet Museum needing his help. It's justified, however, as Geordi is in full-on Papa Wolf mode and not wanting whatever crazy mission Picard is on to put both of his daughters at risk.
• The Unreveal: We never get to see who his wife is—the likeliest guess being Dr. Leah Brahms, seeing as "All Good Things" revealed he also had a daughter named Sydney with her, although there's been no confirmation on the matter.

Captain William Riker

Captain William Riker

^{Click here to see him in the Season One finale}

Played by: Jonathan Frakes

Picard's first officer for fifteen years on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D and E. Later captain of the U.S.S. Titan. Previously retired to the planet Nepenthe with his wife Deanna Troi-Riker before both reactivated their commissions as Starfleet officers.

• The Next Generation
• Lower Decks

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• 10-Minute Retirement: Unsubtly informs Jean-Luc that he is still on "active reserve" with Starfleet and could return to duty at his leisure. Picard politely dissuades him from doing so purely on his behalf. He comes out of retirement anyway in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", leading the Federation fleet against the Romulan armada.
• Badass in Distress: He's kidnapped in "The Bounty", but refuses to give up Picard, even with his wife as a fellow prisoner.
• Big Damn Heroes: He comes out of retirement and assumes acting command of the U.S.S. Zheng He to lead a Federation armada to Coppelius to rescue Picard and the synths from the Romulans.
• Call to Agriculture: After retiring from Starfleet, he and Deanna have taken to growing their own food, rather than replicating it.
• Character Development: During the old TNG days, Riker was very much a highly skilled officer, but one who was far more willing to take risks and play loose with the rules. However, since becoming a father and losing his son to a disease that could have been treated with technology that was banned at the time, he's become a lot more cautious under pressure, fearful of not making it home to his family. When he's placed in charge of the Titan-A after Captain Shaw is incapacitated, Riker refuses to engage the Shrike despite Picard telling him it's their only chance, arguing that they have 500 lives to protect. In fact, when Picard does subtly accuse Riker of letting his fears keep them from standing a chance, he does not react pleasantly to it. Later, he admits to Picard that his old commander was right: losing his son made him a Nihilist, and it was putting a strain on his marriage with Deanna as a result. Trusting in his friends and engaging in a very risky ploy reinvigorates his old spirit.
• Dads Can't Cook: Played with. He's seen making handmade pizza, but he does burn the tomatoes. The rest of the pizza must be okay, though, because he serves it at dinner.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, his mother passed away at an early age, and he and his father were estranged for many years. During his younger years, he helped to cover up an incident on the Pegasus during an illegal testing of an experimental cloaking device that got the rest of the crew killed. More recently, his son died of a rare silicon-based virus that could have been treated had the Federation not banned synthetic lifeforms following the Mars attacks, which put a strain on his marriage to Deanna Troi.
• He's Back!: After facing his darkest hour, far away from his wife and daughter and in bad standing with both of them because of his nihilistic attitude, Riker gets his swagger back, then tosses an asteroid at the Shrike while riding an energy wave out of the nebula.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He still has this dynamic with Picard after all these years. Though he does give the Admiral a bit of a dressing down when he brings Soji to their house and more-or-less tells him that Picard doesn't always know what's best, he still offers his unconditional support and even leads an entire fleet of Starfleet vessels into rescuing the entire planet of androids. That said, Season 3 starts to show cracks forming between the two men. Though Riker agrees to help Picard track down Beverly, when the Titan is at the mercy of the Shrike, he and Picard start butting heads over what to do—Riker wants to run despite impossible odds, Picard wants to fight despite equally impossible odds. When a saboteur takes out the Titan's warp core, Riker finally gives into Picard's suggestion to fight—and the Shrike turns their own torpedoes agains them and sends the ship plummeting to her doom. Riker then rather calmly orders Picard off the bridge for his grave miscalculation. Only minutes later, he does admit to Picard that he was right, and that he should have listened. Despite his reservations, he does agree to go along with a very insane plan Picard, Beverly, and Jack cooked up to save them, rekindling his old fire.
• Never My Fault: When the Titan is hit by her own photon torpedos and sent plummeting to their doom, Riker angrily orders Picard off the bridge for getting the ship and her crew killed—ignoring the fact that he hesitated to follow Picard's suggestion to try to cripple the Shrike until the last minute, and did so too late to keep the Shrike from being able to mount a counter offensive. He later subverts it next episode when he comes to Jean-Luc and admits he was wrong to hesitate.
• Noodle Incident: In Season 3, he willingly joins Picard on a mission because he's having some family troubles at home, but it's not revealed what happened as of yet. Unfortunately for him, he quickly regrets it when the mission goes sideways and then some. It's later revealed that he and Deanna were having a marital spat because the death of Thad affected him so greatly, he became a Nihilist, and him leaving was because he thought it would help clear the air.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His son, Thad, died of a rare silicon-based virus. And he will not take you using his son's death and accusing him of cowardice over it lightly. Not even if it's coming from Picard. It turns out it hits more deeper than that, as losing Thad made him believe in the worst.
• Properly Paranoid: His and Deanna's house on Nepenthe is outfitted with (presumably) military-grade shielding and sensors capable of detecting approaching cloaked ships. Given the kind of life he and his wife have lived over the past 30 years and the enemies each of them have made, such precautions are entirely justified.
• Real Men Cook: He's the cook in his family; Deanna tends to their gardens while Kestra hunts for game meat in the nearby forest. His handmade pizza includes the tomatoes grown by his wife and the bunnicorn (which he prepares as a sausage) was provided by their daughter.
• Retired Badass: After 30 years of adventures on two Enterprises and the Titan, Riker has retired from Starfleet and leads a peaceful life raising a family. But those same keen instincts that helped him rise to the captain's chair are not the slightest bit dulled with age.
• Sherlock Scan: He deduces Soji's identity and that of her pursuers from Picard's comments, Deanna's assessment, and his own observations of Soji.
• Tranquil Fury: He calmly but harshly orders Picard off the bridge for his suggestion backfiring and sending the Titan plummeting to her doom.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Downplayed in Season 1. He does chastise his old commander a little bit when Picard brings Soji to the Riker residence, telling Jean-Luc that he shouldn't have tried to keep everyone away and that he doesn't always know better, but when Picard tries to explain his reasoning, Riker just lets it go.
  • Played Straight in Season 3, where he and Picard get into an argument about how to handle the Shrike, and Jean-Luc keeps pressuring him to fight back. It keeps getting worse when Picard implies that Riker is scared given the loss he's experienced, but outright implodes when Riker finally does go with Picard's suggestion, only for the Titan to be taken out and sent plummeting to her doom. He walks it back next episode, admitting Picard was right.
• You Are in Command Now: He's temporarily made captain of the Titan-A after Captain Shaw is placed out of action.

Captain Tuvok

Captain Tuvok

Played by: Tim Russ

The Vulcan former tactical officer and security chief of the U.S.S. Voyager. In the two decades since Janeway and her crew made it home from the Delta Quadrant, Tuvok remained with Starfleet and has risen to the rank of Captain.

For tropes relating to his prior appearances in Star Trek: Voyager, please see its character page.

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• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It's left unclear when specifically Tuvok was replaced by a rogue Changeling. It's implied to be at least several months, if his comment about not speaking with Janeway for some time was truthful — which makes sense as, given their longtime friendship, Janeway could spot any inconsistencies. However, he also fails the second Trust Password with Seven, but knew at least enough basic knowledge to pass the first. This suggests that Tuvok's impersonation and replacement may have been rushed, once the Changelings realized that Seven and the Titan were now involved against them — and thus Seven would inevitably seek out her old crew for help.
  • His replacement also makes one wonder what happened to the rest of the Voyager crew. While Chakotay's fate hasn't been disclosed due to Prodigy still running, Harry Kim, Tom Paris, B'elanna Torres, Naomi Wildman, and any other minor crew members from that ship have not been mentioned. Geordi implies they did try contacting at least one of them, only to get the same results, so it's difficult to say if the Changelings got to them. And the one crew member the Changelings can't replace so easily, The Doctor, was likely shut down in the synthoid ban and may or may not have been reactivated.
• Bluff the Imposter: Seven tests to see if Tuvok is a Changeling by talking about their old games of kal-toh, which he says that she won a couple of times. Just to be safe, she tells him that they can meet on Aklion VII (which is significant since Vulcans would never go there after the anti-kolinahr demonstrations), where she had her neural patterns stabilized. Tuvok agrees, but fails to mention that he already helped her do that back on Voyager, exposing him as a Changeling.
• The Bus Came Back: The real Tuvok, not the Changeling one, reappears in Picard's finale, 22 long years after his last appearance in Voyager's finale "Endgame".
• The Cameo: Appears early in the seventh season episode "Dominion" when Seven approached her old crewmate for help. Alas, it's a Changeling masquerading as the Vulcan. He does come back in "The Last Generation", where it's shown Starfleet was able to recover him.
• Character Aged with the Actor: Zig-Zagged. Throughout Voyager Tuvok barely ages at all, due to being a Vulcan, from 2293 all the way to 2378. In Picard, due to Tim Russ in his mid-60s, Tuvok ages drastically for a Vulcan and looks exactly like his actor.
• Friend on the Force: Seven approaches him in the hopes he can serve this role and give them intel on Riker's whereabouts after being captured at Daystrom. Alas, of course, he turns out to be a false friend.
• Rank Up: Tuvok has gone from a lieutenant commander to a captain in the decades since Voyager returned home to the Alpha Quadrant. Lower Decks had previously briefly depicted him as a full commander in the 2380s.
• Sanity Strengthening: Whatever mental condition Tuvok suffered in the Bad Future of Voyager's finale, "Endgame", and was beginning to exhibit in the "present day" of that episode, it is long gone and Tuvok remains in Starfleet service. It's a logical outcome, as Tuvok mentioned at the time that a Vulcan technique via mind-meld with a compatible individual would cure or resolve his illness.
• Younger Than They Look: Well, rather "used to be older than he looked". Tuvok is roughly 140 years old; but for real-life reasons (being played by Tim Russ who is in his mid-to-late 60s) has aged quite drastically for a Vulcan since the final episode of Voyager, despite barely aging at all between 2293 and 2378.

Captain Va'kel Shon

Va'kel Shon

The commanding officer of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-F and the first Andorian to command the prestigious name of the Federation's flagship, who's turned over command of his vessel temporarily to Admiral Shelby for his ship's final shakedown run.

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• Breaking Old Trends: He's the only fully-alien being besides Worf to be the commanding officer of the Enterprise, after all previous commanders were either human (Archer, April, Pike, Kirk, Deckard, Harriman, Garret, and Picard,) half-human (Spock), or an augmented human liberated from the Borg Collective (his successor, Seven of Nine).
• Canon Immigrant: Like his ship, he was brought over from Star Trek Online.
• The Captain: His role on the Enterprise-F, though he's the last one to take command of the ship prior to her decommissioning.
• Hero of Another Story: Any of the character's exploits in his command of the flagship occurred entirely offscreen.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: He doesn't actually appear or is mentioned on Picard, with his existence being confirmed via Terry Matalas, and no effort is taken to mention where he is or what he's doing when Shelby takes command of his ship.
• Uncertain Doom: He wasn't commanding the Enterprise-F on Frontier Day when it was hijacked by The Borg, so where was he? Was he on the F when the drones took it over and killed the non-assimilated crew? Was he on Earth Spacedock watching the festivities and was killed when the station went down? Nothing is said of his fate, though seeing as Seven of Nine got command of the Enterprise-G per the late Captain Shaw's recommendation, it doesn't bode well for the Andorian.

Commander Deanna Troi-Riker

Deanna Troi-Riker

Played by: Marina Sirtis

The former ship's councilor under Picard on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D and E. Previously retired to the planet Nepenthe with her husband William T. Riker before both reactivated their commissions.

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• A Day in the Limelight: "Nepenthe" is largely focused on her and Riker.
• Hyper-Awareness: She deduces immediately that Soji isn't human because her empathic senses can't read Soji at all.
  Troi: She appears fully human. Her face, her voice, her body language, all express clear emotion. The poor thing is clearly traumatized.
  Riker: But?
  Troi: I can't read her. I sense nothing.
• I Have Your Wife: On the receiving end of this trope in the third season, when she is captured by Vadic's and her Changeling crew in a bid to force Riker's cooperation.
• Not So Above It All: She's not too happy with the resurrected Data taking up two hours of her time discussing his newfound emotions, and is trying to find a vacation destination during their sessions. When he leaves and her husband comes in asking if he's "still bat-shit crazy", she starts chuckling as she tries getting Will to knock it off.
• Older and Wiser: She admits to Picard she's not as brave as she once was, but Picard replies that just means she's wiser now.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Her son, Thad, died of a rare silicon-based virus. Said virus was treatable, but Starfleet banned the only means of providing it at the time because of the synthoid attack on Mars.
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Now that they're all older and also civilians, Deanna has no compunctions about laying into Picard over his rough verbal handling of Soji in her emotionally compromised state.

Lieutenant Icheb

Lieutenant Icheb

Played by: Casey King

A former Borg drone liberated by the crew of Voyager, who has since joined Starfleet and now serves as a science officer aboard the U.S.S. Coleman.

For tropes relating to his prior appearances in Star Trek: Voyager, please see its character page.

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• Back for the Dead: Makes his only appearance in the opening flashback of "Stardust City Rag", where he is given a Mercy Kill by Seven after she finds him dying of injuries from having his remaining Borg implants forcibly harvested without anaesthetic by unscrupulous black market Borg part dealers.
• Cynicism Catalyst: He is killed simply to fuel Seven's revenge against Bjayzl.
• Eye Scream: Has his ocular implant forcibly ripped out without anesthetics.
• Sacrificial Lion: He was an important recurring character in the last two seasons of Voyager, but he's sacrificed in a gruesome Organ Theft to illustrate to viewers how much Darker and Edgier this series is compared to the previous ones.

Ensign Alandra La Forge

Ensign Alandra La Forge

Played by: Mica Burton

The daughter of Geordi La Forge and sister of Sydney, who serves with their father at the Fleet Museum on Athan Prime.

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• Daddy's Girl: She's an engineer, like her father, and she apparently helped him restore the Enterprise-D.
• Ensign Newbie: Like her sister, she is still an ensign and likely a recent graduate of Starfleet Academy.
• Like Father, Like Son: Partly gender-flipped. Unlike her sister, she became an engineer like their father Geordi, verging on Generation Xerox.
• Military Brat: She comes from a lengthy line of Starfleet officers. Besides her father, her grandparents were both Starfleet officers.

U.S.S. Defiant NX- 74205

U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205

Formerly the Defiant class U.S.S. Sao Paulo, NCC-75633, this vessel was assigned to Deep Space Nine following the destruction of the prototype of her class, the U.S.S. Defiant, which was designed by then-Commander Benjamin Sisko as an anti-Borg weapon following the destructive battle of Wolf 359. Having been given Starfleet's permission to rechristen the Sao Paulo to the Defiant, it was used in the final weeks of the Dominion War under the original ship's crew. Following the battle of Gamma Serpentis, in which the Defiant was one of several ships that was heavily damaged following a viral takeover by the Living Construct, the ship was later restored and retired to the Fleet Museum, where she remains as a tribute to her designer, the Emissary of Bajor and the hero of the Alpha Quadrant.

For tropes relating to its prior appearances, see here.

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• Famed In-Story: Jack immediately recognizes her when Seven pulls up the Defiant on the Titan's view screen.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When the Fleet Museum is shown in full, there is a Defiant class vessel seen on display, but it's too far away to identify. As Seven starts pulling up live images of the Museum's collection, a D Major chord swells up in the long, drawn out manner of the original Deep Space Nine opening before it reveals that it's not just any Defiant; it's the Defiant.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: She's the third Defiant in Starfleet, and the second in the NX-74205 registry line, though she notably lacks an A.
• Made of Iron: During her last appearance on Prodigy, she took several rounds of fire from virally-infected Starfleet vessels, and unlike her predecessor, managed to make it to posterity. Tough little ship, indeed.
• Retired Badass: She didn't see as much combat like her predecessor, but she's the legendary Defiant—a veteran of the Dominion War—now enjoying the quiet life as a museum display.
• Scars Are Forever: Averted. Like with the Enterprise-A, the Defiant has been completely restored, scrubbing any trace of the damage she sustained at Gamma Serpentis.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like the Enterprise-A, she's not the original ship of her class, but Jack still holds her as the one and only Defiant because the original got taken out by the Breen before the Dominion War ended.

U.S.S. Enterprise NX- 01

U.S.S. Enterprise NX-01

The very first vessel constructed for Starfleet in 2151, this Warp-5 capable ship was famously commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer for a decade, proving instrumental towards the establishment of what would become the United Federation of Planets. After undergoing a major refit sometime after 2155, the ship was formally retired in 2161 to celebrate the founding of the Federation, and placed on display at Athan Prime in what would become the Fleet Museum. As the oldest vessel on display there, she's inspired countless other ships to continue her legacy, and remains a fan-favorite for any officer visiting.

For tropes relating to its prior appearances, see the Enterprise character page.

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• Arc Symbol: Season 3 is set around the 250th anniversary of her first voyage, with her current successor, the Enterprise-F, set to be retired after a final flight during the Frontier Day festivities. The Borg and the rouge Changelings attempt to ruin the festivities by hijacking all of Starfleet and destroying Earth as revenge for their numerous defeats, but are thwarted by the NX-01's fellow display and another successor of hers, the Enterprise-D. With The Next Generation having saved the day celebrating the first, the former's ship is returned to the museum to join the latter's in posterity.
• Famed In-Story:
  • Because of her adventures under Captain Archer, Starfleet holds her and her voyages in high regard. Picard Season 3 makes her first voyage's 250th anniversary essential to the plot, as Starfleet is hosting a Frontier Day Celebration in her honor, which the Changelings and the Borg are planning to use to wipe them out of existence.
  • On Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, the NX-01 is still shown to be a fan favorite amongst officers like La'an Noonien Singh and Becket Mariner, with the former expressing admiration for the ship's grapplers and the latter having paid attention to the lecture about putting pieces of each previous vessel in legacy ships.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Although she's been confirmed to be at the Fleet Museum since her show's finale, she's not quite as easy to spot since she's in her refit appearance from a planned, but never implement Season 5. She's right behind Kronos One from The Undiscovered Country in "The Bounty", and can be seen again when the Enterprise-D clears Hangar Bay 12 in "Vox".
• Hero of Another Story: There's six years of story between Season 4 of Enterprise and her last voyage in 2161 that have yet to be told.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: She's the sixth vessel in Earth history to bear the name Enterprise, but she's the first in Starfleet overall to have it. Every ship that's followed her since has always carried her name (but not her registry), and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds revealed that there's a small piece of her on her Constitution class successor.
• Made of Explodium: According to Strange New Worlds, her hull is made of horonium, which was so notoriously difficult to refine due to its high instability that it was phased out in favor of sturdier materials.
• Retcon: "These Are The Voyages" ended with her being presented in her original appearance. At the Fleet Museum, she's in a refit configuration that was supposed to be her look for a never made Season 5, suggesting that episode either didn't happen, or it played out entirely different than what Riker saw on the holodeck.
• Retired Badass: The first holder to the Enterprise name in Starfleet is currently resting at the Fleet Museum.
• Rule of Symbolism: When the D departs the Fleet Museum, the NX-01 can be seen berthed above, wishing her successor good luck in stopping the Borg from destroying Starfleet, 250 years to the day she first launched.
• Took a Level in Badass: She was equipped with a new secondary hull and additional plating sometime after her main series ended, making her an even more impressive vessel than she already was.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A

The third vessel in Starfleet and the second in the Federation to bear the name Enterprise, this Constitution II class vessel, believed to be the former U.S.S. Yorktown, was made to be the first Legacy Vessel in Starfleet after Captain James T. Kirk and his crew saved Earth from the "Whale Probe" in 2286. Used as a replacement for the original Constitution class ship destroyed the previous year, the A only lasted a total of seven years in service compared to her predecessor's 40. Nevertheless, her actions in stopping the mad Vulcan Sybok and his quest to find "God" and her efforts to thwart a conspiracy to undermine the Khitomer Accords earned her a place at the Fleet Museum when she was retired.

For tropes relating to its prior appearances, see The Voyage Home character page.

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• Book Ends: In her first appearance, she was shown at Earth Spacedock. Now, she's retired to that same Spacedock, which itself is now the Fleet Museum's main hub.
• Famed In-Story: She's the personal favorite ship of Jack Crusher, due to her "clean, perfectly retro lines".
• Irony: She was framed from attacking Kronos One when it was really Chang. Now, she and Kronos One are on display at the Fleet Museum.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: She's the second ship in The Federation, and the third in Starfleet, to be called Enterprise. She's also the first in the Starfleet tradition of suffixing the registry number of the first Federation Starfleet ship to bear the name with a letter.
• Retired Badass: The hero of Khitomer is now enjoying a peaceful retirement at the Fleet Museum.
• Scars Are Forever: Averted. The damage Chang and his forces inflicted on her were long since removed, and she looks pristine as ever.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She's called "Kirk's Enterprise" by Jack, even though she's not the 1701 from TOS. Given that the original ship was blown sky high over the Genesis Planet, she and the New Jersey are the closest displays at the Fleet Museum to the real deal.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D

One of the inaugural six Galaxy-class cruisers, the Enterprise-D was the Federation flagship during the 2360s and the then heir to the Enterprise lineage. Launching under the command of Jean-Luc Picard, the Enterprise spent seven-plus years in service to the Federation and Starfleet.

Intended to have an operational lifetime of a full century, the Enterprise-D was suddenly and unexpectedly lost in 2371 during the Battle of Veridian III, where the stardrive section was destroyed by a warp core breach and the saucer section subsequently crash-landed on the planet. With the ship deemed lost, Picard and his command crew were subsequently reassigned to the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E in 2372.

However, the Enterprise-D wreckage was subsequently salvaged from Veridian III by Starfleet, as the neighboring Veridian IV is home to a pre-warp civilization and the Prime Directive mandated the removal of any and all alien technology to avoid potentially contaminating the civilization. As the Fleet Museum's curator, Geordi has spent the last twenty years quietly rebuilding and refurbishing the 1701-D in Hangar 12, leading to her being unexpectedly returned to service by her old crew when the active fleet is compromised by the Borg.

For tropes relating to its prior appearances, see the ''TNG'' character page.

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• Acrofatic: She may be "The Fat One", but with Data piloting her, she's as fast and maneuverable as any other ship in Starfleet.
• Alien Non-Interference Clause: Cited by Geordi as to why Starfleet had to retrieve the Enterprise-D saucer from Veridian III despite deeming the ship unsalvageable. There's a pre-warp civilization on Veridian IV, and per the Prime Directive, Starfleet couldn't leave it behind because it would contaminate that civilization's development the moment they achieved spaceflight and made it to Veridian III. With the ship's remains back in space, and with his broad salvage authorities over ships in mothballs for his job as Fleet Museum Curator, Commodore Geordi LaForge naturally seized the chance to restore his old ship.
• Avengers Assemble: The Enterprise-D/E command crew completes their reassembly with the final "member" of their old team: the 1701-D herself.
• Back for the Finale:
  • The Enterprise-D returns thirty years after its last appearance in Generations (discounting flashbacks and alternate versions). Geordi has spent the last twenty years rebuilding her from the damaged saucer and parts scavenged from other decommissioned Galaxy-class vessels.
  • The Enterprise-D Computer — the voice of all the 24th-century-era technology — also "returns", via archival audio of the late Majel Barrett.
• Back from the Dead: Thanks to Geordi, the old gal has been restored to her former glory, complete with a new Stardrive section taken from another Galaxy class ship, after she crashed on Veridian III.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: Geordi breaks out the refurbished Enterprise-D from the Fleet Museum, as they need an older vessel that predates the new Fleet Network and thus can't be hijacked by the Borg (apparently thanks to Worf, they can't use the E, and none of the other ships there are capable of handling the entire Federation Fleet in a fight, not even Defiant or Voyager). After The Borg are destroyed, she's retired back to the museum.
• Cool Chair: Upon seeing the restored 1701-D bridge, Data is delighted to be reunited with his old Ops chair even giving it a fond hello.
• Cool Old Lady: Of the non-AI variety. Given that she only has the original command crew (seven people in all) operating her, the ship's main computer is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in regard to ship functions and doesn't miss a single beat.
  Captain William Riker: I miss that voice.
• Cool Ship: As cool as ever. Nearly 40 years old, yet she still more than holds her own and packs one hell of a wallop despite—at one point—only having four people aboard to run her. In the hands of her original crew, the Galaxy-class ship practically dances her way through a Borg cube.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The stardrive section of the "Enterprise-D" still bears the markings of the U.S.S. Syracuse, confirming Geordi's story about the ship still being a work-in-progress restoration job. There's also the port nacelle cover not looking fully-installed, as Geordi mentioned it was being "a nightmare" to fix.
• Informed Flaw: It's mentioned she's not up to full strength since Geordi hasn't finished fixing her, yet she easily demolishes a single Borg Cube. It's justified that Data was flying her, Beverly's aim had gotten much better, and the Cube was only 36% functional to begin with. Oh and the Borg were not expecting anyone to be crazy enough to pilot her into the Cube itself!
• In-Series Nickname: The attendees at Ten Forward where they're selling models of the D call her "The Fat One". Riker and Picard aren't amused.
• Putting the Band Back Together: The TNG reunion is complete, as Geordi "recruits" the final "member" of their old team: the 1701-D herself.
• Legacy Character: She's the fifth ship in Starfleet and the sixth in The Federation to bear the name Enterprise, and only one of five ships to the name to survive into posterity, the others being the NX-01, the A, the decommissioned F, and the newly rechristened G. And unlike Kirk's Enterprise, which wound up being blown to kingdom come over the Genesis Planet, and the Enterprise-C, which was destroyed at Narendra III, the D returned to glory to save The Federation one last time before being retired to a life of posterity at the Fleet Museum.
• Legendary in the Sequel: By the time of even Deep Space Nine and later Picard, the Enterprise-D has solidified its reputation as a legendary vessel. Even before it's unveiled it is repeatedly seen on plaques at Starfleet Academy or decorating Starfleet HQ as a hologram - even at a time where Picard himself had somewhat fallen from grace, the Enterprise-D clearly remained beloved by Starfleet. It seems that Vice Admiral Nakamura's prediction in TNG's season 2 did come true:
  "For five hundred years, every ship that has borne the name of the Enterprise has become a legend. This one is no different."
• Lightning Bruiser: When Data takes the ship into the Borg Mega-Cube's structure, he exerts his superior cognitive analysis and response time and flies her like he stole her; she's destined for a museum if she survives this, so there's no worry about curtailing spaceframe lifespan with such hard maneuvering. Along the way, Beverly on Tactical station happily carves up the Cube from the inside. Even the Borg are caught by surprise.
• Rebuilt Set: The Enterprise-D bridge has been rebuilt for the final two episodes, as has the turbolift set. The rebuilt set is also its original TNG Season Three classic configuration, rather than the refit bridge set we last saw in Generations.
• Scars Are Forever: Played with as, Geordi's work not yet being totally complete, she initially retains scorch marks and other cosmetic damage to the Saucer's hull plating from the crash on Veridian III all those years ago, as well as slight discoloration from the heat of reentry which is notable when compared to the notably more pristine and properly colored Drive section (which came from various other ships of the line which presumably did not go through a horrific crash). In the epilogue though, when she's finally added to the museum proper she looks completely pristine again and the Saucer and Drive sections match as Geordi has completed the refurbishment.
• Theseus' Ship Paradox: It's likely that parts from a number of decommissioned Galaxy-class ships went into restoring her; the stardrive section was cannibalized wholesale from the U.S.S. Syracuse since the Enterprise's original was destroyed by a warp core breach detonation. Now... the parts are all the Enterprise.
• Where It All Began: To fight the Borg once last time, Picard and his command crew finally return to where their story — and the entire 24th Century era of the franchise — began over thirty years earlier: the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E

Launched in 2372 as one of the inaugural vessels of the Sovereign class to replace the seemingly-destroyed Enterprise-D, the vessel served as The Federation's flagship under Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the original crew of the D until 2379, when Commander William Riker accepted a promotion to Captain of the U.S.S. Titan, and Commander Data was killed stopping the mad Praetor Shinzon from destroying Earth. In 2381, Picard was promoted to Admiral to head the evacuation efforts of Romulus, Geordi LaForge was promoted to Commodore of the Fleet Museum, and Doctor Beverly Crusher abruptly left Starfleet without warning, leaving Worf to helm the vessel as her Captain and the only one of the original crew left. He would step down in 2385 following an incident on Krillar Prime, and the ship was taken out of service by 2386 following a final "classified" mission, being replaced by the Enterprise-F shortly thereafter.

For tropes retaining to her original appearance, see here.

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• All There in the Manual: Picard's prequel novel reveals that Starfleet Command refused to let Picard retain command of the E when promoted to Admiral because they didn't want him to use a ship with the most infamous name amongst the Romulans during a time where they were trying to help them save their species, and command was subsequently handed over to Worf. All that's spoken about her fate in an Instagram post is that Worf stepped down in 2385 following an incident on Krillar Prime, and the ship was subsequently removed from service the next year following a "classified" mission. The show would later reveal that Worf's old crewmates hold him responsible for what happened (though he insists it's not his fault).
• The Ghost: By the time the first season starts, no mention is made to her whereabouts despite it being Picard's most recent command at the time, aside from the Verity he used during the Romulan evacuation efforts, and not even once does he consider trying to get back in command of her (not that Starfleet was willing to let him). Season 3 then reveals she was never around to begin with, as something happened to her in between Nemesis and Picard that took her out of the action.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: She was the sixth vessel in The Federation, and the seventh in Starfleet, to bear the prestigious name Enterprise. Like all the ships who’ve bore the name, she was a formidable fighter in her own right.
• Made of Iron: On her last appearance on Star Trek: Prodigy, she was severely damaged by the Living Construct's virus turning all the Starfleet ships against one another, but she was able to be put back into service for another two years. It wouldn't be the first time, as she survived having the Scimitar ram into her hull and was able to be repaired without much trouble.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever happened to her that Worf was involved in, nothing is ever explained, but it had to be bad enough that none want to talk about it.
• Superior Successor: As noted by Worf, the E had a far better cache of weapons and armaments, making her far more ideal for combat. The only problem is, she can't be used, and he had something to do with it.
• Uncertain Doom: Last seen in action, briefly, in Star Trek: Prodigy, she never appeared in the series, as something happened to her that rendered her unusable (which, according to Geordi, is Worf's fault), and Starfleet has marked her final journey "classified". It's not clear if she was destroyed, disabled, abandoned, retired, or simply decommissioned, though she's notably absent from the lineup at the Fleet Museum. According to Terry Matalas, he left the E's fate open-ended so someone else could tell the story.

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-F

Launched in 2386 after the classified final mission and immediate retirement of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E, the Enterprise-F is Starfleet's current flagship and latest heir to the Enterprise lineage. After 15 years of service at the head of the Federation armada, the Odyssey-class vessel is scheduled to be retired soon after completing a final ceremonial flyby of Earth for the Frontier Day 2401 celebrations.

For this special final mission, the Enterprise-F has been been temporarily placed under the command of Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: According to the supplemental material from STO, she was built in 2409, but an Instagram post for Picard detailing the Enterprise lineage revealed she was brought online in 2386.
• Adaptation Name Change: In Star Trek Online, she was an Odyssey class vessel. Raffi's search files reveal she's an Enterprise class ship in the official canon. Later Subverted, as "Vox" calls her an Odyssey.
• Age Lift: She was brand new in her debut media, but canon officially puts her at 15 years old and on the verge of retirement.
• All There in the Manual: According to an Instagram post for the show, the F was put into service in 2386 and had numerous different captains commanding her, but she's being decommissioned because a rescue mission to save Railian refugees on Fenton IV (a mission since named "The Monfette Gambit") caused a critical compromise to her systems.
• Badass in Distress: She's taken over by a horde of Borg-assimilated Starfleet Officers, leaving Earth at her and the rest of the fleet's mercy.
• Canon Immigrant: She was brought in as one of the many ships from Star Trek Online. According to showrunner Terry Matalas, the Enterprise-F's normal commanding officer is a prime timeline version of the Androian Va'Kel Shon, her captain from Online, making him the second non-human captain of a starship Enterprise after Worf (third counting Spock, who is half-human).
• Cool Ship: She doesn't get a chance to show off much given she's about to be retired, but damn if she doesn't look gorgeous. And, as The Borg demonstrated, heavily armed to the teeth...
• Dynamic Entry: She first shows up in person coming out of Earth Spacedock, surrounded by fireworks as she leads the entire fleet for maneuvers. Kirk would be proud of such a flashy display.
• Early-Bird Cameo: An Odyssey-class vessel, the U.S.S. Verity NCC-97000, was featured in the Picard tie-in comic prequel long before the F showed up in Season 3. The Verity was shown to be Picard's first post-Enterprise-E command after being promoted to admiral.
• Hero of Another Story: All of her 15 years worth of adventures under Captain Va'kel Shon occurred entirely off screen, where she boldly went in search of new life and new civilizations, and what great feats she accomplished like her predecessors.
• Legacy Character: She's the eighth vessel in Starfleet and the seventh in The Federation to bear the name Enterprise, having taken over from the Sovereign class Enterprise-E the same year the ship was taken out of service, two years after the latter had yet another brush with destruction. Still the E's disposition has yet to be disclosed, with its final mission currently marked as "Classified" (apparently Worf did something to her, which he takes no responsibility for). She's given an early decommissioning at the end of the series and replaced with the Enterprise-G, continuing the lineage that Star Trek: Enterprise has shown there will eventually be an Enterprise-J within the next 100 years, and Discovery has also indicated the Enterprise line is still around by the time of the 32nd century.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After the F is phased out in 2402 in favor of the G, no mention is made to her final disposition other than "retired".

U.S.S. Excelsior NCC- 2000

U.S.S. Excelsior NCC-2000

The prototype of what would become one of Starfleet's most prominent workhorses throughout the 24th Century, the "Great Experiment" NX-2000 (later rechristened to NCC-2000) was launched in 2285 to begin replacing the aging Constitution class vessels. Initial impressions of the vessel weren't all that great; she failed to catch the fleeing Enterprise thanks to being sabotaged by Captain Montgomery Scott, was disabled by the Whale Probe in 2286 before she could respond to the crisis at hand, and her experimental transwarp drive failed to yield any results and was removed. Nevertheless, she was able to obtain the legacy she deserved when Captain Hikaru Sulu was finally given command of the vessel in 2287. Under his command, the ship was able to help forge peace with the Klingon Empire during the Khitomer crisis, and managed to serve for an impressive 35 years before Sulu retired from Starfleet in 2320. In his honor, the ship was preserved at the Fleet Museum, left as forever a testament to her Captain.

For tropes relating to her original appearance, see here.

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• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The placard at Starfleet Academy in Season 2 details her retirement to the Fleet Museum. As for the Excelsior herself, she's parked in the ring right next to Voyager.
• Irony: On her immediate left is the Voyager, whose Chief of Security was then Lieutenant Tuvok. Tuvok also had the distinction of serving on Excelsior when he first joined Starfleet. Later in "Vox", its successor Excelsior-II gets destroyed by the Hikaru Sulu during the Borg's attack on Frontier Day.
• Outliving One's Offspring: A ship example. While it's not clear what happened to her 24th century successor from TNG, the Excelsior-II that bore her name was destroyed on Frontier Day when it tried escaping from the Borg's control and was promptly destroyed (ironically, by the Hikaru Sulu).

U.S.S. New Jersey NCC- 1975

U.S.S. New Jersey NCC-1975

The sole surviving Constitution class vessel to remain in its 2260s era configuration, it's currently on display at the Fleet Museum as a testament to the perseverance and reputation of the iconic class.

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• Art Evolution: Unlike on Star Trek: Discovery or its spinoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which chose to update the Constitution class via the original Enterprise with a new design, the New Jersey is a complete recreation of a TOS era Constitution, albeit rendered in more modern CGI. There's also a greater number of windows on the secondary hull compared to the Enterprise.
  • It's also something a strange Discontinuity Nod because the SNW-style version of the Constitution-class is seen earlier in Picard's first season representing the Enterprise NCC-1701 at Starfleet Headquarters. Picard doesn't pick sides on which version is the "correct" one, in-universe, and showrunner Terry Matalas has said that the New Jersey looks like a TOS Constituion-class simply because he likes TOS Constitution-class, nothing more, nothing less.
• Hero of Another Story: The audience has no idea about the exploits that earned her the prestige of being retired to the Fleet Museum.
• Named After Somebody Famous: She was named and registered after showrunner Terry Matalas, who was born in New Jersey in 1975.
• Remember the New Guy?: Downplayed. "Relics" already mentioned the Fleet Museum had a 2260s era Constitution, but Picard reveals it's a new member of the class not mentioned before, rather than one of the 12 contemporaries of the original Enterprise that managed to survive.
• Unseen No More: After Picard mentioned that there was a Constitution at the Fleet Museum in a TOS configuration on TNG, we finally see her in Picard.

U.S.S. Voyager NCC- 74656

U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656

The most famous name of the Intrepid class vessels, the original Voyager was launched from Deep Space Nine in 2372 under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway to hunt down Maquis rebels hiding out in the Badlands. Unexpectedly thrust into the Delta Quadrant by a being known as "The Caretaker", at the expense of much of her crew, Voyager would soon find itself stranded in this uncharted region of space for seven years as the integrated Starfleet and Maquis members tried to find a way to get home faster. Thanks to the unexpected aid of a future version of Janeway from an alternate timeline, the ship not only managed to cripple (if not destroy) the Borg collective, but return home. While Janeway went on to become one of Starfleet's most prominent admirals, the Voyager underwent a full restoration before being escorted by the crew of the Cerritos to Earth before being retired to the Fleet Museum, honored as the ship that went the furthest out into the stars.

For tropes relating to her original appernace, see here.

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• Cool Ship: Jack describes her as "a beauty", and she doesn't disappoint as Seven reveals what Voyager did.
• Found Family: Seven describes Voyager as having given her a new family upon her liberation from the Borg Collective. With Janeway, Tuvok, The Doctor, B'Elanna, and Tom Paris having moved on to other Starfleet postings, Neelix still in the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay (as of now) still missing in an alternate future timeline, and Harry Kim's fate undisclosed, Seven is still trying to find another family on a starship.
• In Spite of a Nail: In the future version of "Endgame", she was retired upon returning home. This still happened, but she wound up at the Fleet Museum instead of San Fransisco Bay. Lower Decks shows she did briefly reside at the Presidio in San Francisco, however, before eventually heading to Athan Prime.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: A Voyager-A and Voyager-B have thus far followed her legacy, which will continue into the 32nd century with a J holding the mantle.
• Made of Iron: She took a great deal of punishment during the Delta Quadrant voyage, but she came home intact. Even her brief visit to Earth only required a little cleanup before she got there, in spite of the Cerritos crew's antics.
• Retired Badass: After charting the Delta Quadrant, she's now letting other vessels carry on her legacy while she stands alongside other legends at the Fleet Museum.

Starfleet Intelligence

Captain Worf

Captain Worf

"I have learned of late that one must access calm as much as fire."

Played by: Michael Dorn

"I am Worf, son of Mogh, House of Martok; son of Sergei, House of Rozhenko; bane to the Duras Family; slayer of Gowron. I have made some chamomile tea. Do you take sugar?"

The Enterprise-D's Chief of Security, a former Strategic Operations Officer on Deep Space Nine, the first Klingon to join Starfleet, and the second Captain of the Enterprise-E, Worf has since joined Starfleet Intelligence, but turned to a life of pacifism. He now acts as Raffi's handler, seeing much of his old self in his charge.

For tropes relating to his prior appearances, see the TNG and DS9 character pages.

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• Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe, he makes one of these when volunteering to join Riker and Picard on the Borg cube.
  Worf: "And I will make it a threesome."
  Riker: "Do you even hear yourself?"
• All There in the Manual: According to Picard's prequel novel, Worf was made Captain of the Enterprise-E on Picard's recommendation when he was promoted to the Admiralty, against then-Captain Clancy's objections regarding the reprimand he received during the Dominion War. Another Instagram post detailing the Enterprise lineage revealed Worf stepped down in 2385 after an incident on Krillar Prime.
• Badass Beard: Worf still has his, but interestingly it's also changed in the interim since Nemesis (and not just the hair color). It's now gone from the traditional Klingon-style beard Worf sported during TNG and DS9 to a more human-style goatee. Given Worf's post-Nemesis Character Development has seen him finally embrace and balance his human heritage, his new beard style could arguably be a symbol of that self-improvement.
• Baritone of Strength: Michael Dorn still sounds as imposing as the Klingon as he did many years ago.
• Being Good Sucks: Implied. While he's rightfully hailed as one of the Klingon Empire's greatest warriors, and one of Starfleet's finest officers (including the Captain of the Enterprise), Worf mentions to Raffi he has sacrificed a great deal (which includes being estranged from his own son for so many years, losing both of his lovers, being dishonored twice, and having lost his birth family).
• The Bus Came Back: He returns for the first time since Star Trek: Nemesis in Season 3.
• Call-Back: Worf's overly long title refers to his many deeds across his appearances: his acceptance into the House of Martok when the now-Chancellor of the Empire welcomed him in for helping to regain his warrior's spirit, him being adopted by human parents when his family was killed at Khitomer, him slaying Duras for killing K'Ehleyr and subsequently stopping the Duras Sisters and their nephew from seizing control of the Empire, and him killing Gowron for his actions hindering the Starfleet-Klingon-Romulan Alliance during the height of the Dominion War.
• The Captain: He has this as part of his rank, and was captain of the Enterprise-E following Picard's promotion until 2385.
• Character Development:
  • Since his last appearance, Worf has gone from a Blood Knight all too eager for a fight, to a Klingon who now practices pacifism. Riker's a bit disappointed that his old friend won't bite back at his teasing when he actually gets to work with him again.
  • Another subtle example on Worf's part, but his long title makes mention of his human parents, as well as his Klingon family, revealing that he's come to embrace all sides of his life rather than just his Klingon heritage.
• The Comically Serious: One thing that hasn't changed about him is his very deadpan sense of humor. When Raffi makes fun of him wearing full Klingon gear in public, he mentions that it's actually casual for them. She snarks back that it's probably for the Tuesday beheading. Once they capture their quarry, he responds that beheadings are actually on Wednesdays.
• Cool Old Guy: Worf may be older, but age hasn't slowed him down as a warrior one bit, and he's capable of throwing down with any threat that comes his way.
• Costume Evolution: Worf's switched back to Operations from his last appearance in Command colors, though he's still shown with a rank of Captain.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Worf is one of the few survivors of the Khitomer Massacre, having been raised by humans. As a child, he accidentally killed a boy during a soccer match, causing him to develop a sour disposition. Though he was the first Klingon in Starfleet, he faced a lot of opposition from both within the group and his own people. He was forcibly dishonored to keep the Empire from falling apart, losing his mate to the man responsible and being estranged from his son for many years. Despite finding camaraderie amongst the crew of the Enterprise-D, the apparent loss of the ship shakes him so badly that he nearly quits Starfleet, and soon is dishonored again for opposing Chancellor Gowron. He does find happiness again in the form of Jadzia Dax, and soon gains a brother in Martok, but the onslaught of the Dominion War puts him on the front lines of great loss, which eventually includes his wife. Even when the war ends, and he's eventually granted the captaincy of the Enterprise-E, Worf is so haunted by what happened that he spent much of his time hunting Dominion imposters, until he accidentally kills an innocent woman, and steps down from his command following an incident at Krillar Prime. He is then forced to temper himself into a pacifist, trying to find peace within despite his very traumatic life.
• Foil: Worf is very much like his old Captain in many respects, as both were men of honor devoted to Starfleet and served as Captains of the Enterprise, and both have suffered through the loss of loved ones. However, when both wound up in a position where they decided to leave Starfleet, Picard did so at disgust with the organization, and wasn't able to find the means to let go of his past until decades later. Worf, meanwhile, stayed at Sisko's urging, and continued to remain with the group while honing his temper to become a warrior at peace with himself.
• Foreshadowing: His role as Raffi's handler was hinted at in her conversations over the secure channel with him, as his replies came off in a very Worf-like manner more befitting of a Klingon Warrior than a Starfleet officer.
• Friend on the Force: He mentions that, amongst the Great Link, he has an old friend of great honor, that being his old Deep Space Nine comrade Odo.
• I Hate Past Me: When interrogating a prisoner, Worf notes to him that the easily-angered Raffi reminds him too much of how he used to be.
• The Handler: Revealed to be Raffi's in "Disenage".
• He Who Fights Monsters: He describes himself as having become that in a deleted scene, as he was hunting for Changelings after the war and got an innocent woman killed.
• Irony:
  • Worf, who embodied the Proud Warrior Race Guy for all his appearances, is now a pacifist.
  • Similarly, when he joined the cast of Deep Space Nine, he was in deep mourning over the destruction of the Enterprise-D. Then he sees her fully rebuilt...and all he can do is complain that he would have preferred to use the Enterprise-E (and that what happened to her was not his fault).
  • Likewise, when he's reprimanded during the Dominion War, Sisko warns him he may not be able to get a command. Except Worf did get a command of his own: the Enterprise.
• It Has Been an Honor: When it seems like the Borg Cube is going to blow up with him, Riker, Picard, and Jack on it, Worf notes that it was indeed a good day to die. Luckily, Deanna has other ideas.
• Leitmotif: Just as in the TNG films, Jerry Goldsmith's "Klingon Theme" once again serves as Worf's personal musical leitmotif.
• Martial Pacifist: He may have a pacifist mindset, but he will take heads to protect his charges.
• My Greatest Failure: He describes in a deleted scene how him killing an innocent woman during his hunt for Changelings greatly haunted him, and led him to develop his current mindset.
• Never My Fault: Whatever happened with the Enterprise-E, Worf claims he isn't responsible.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Geordi makes mention that the Enterprise-E is unusable, with Worf claiming he wasn't at fault. What exactly happened to the ship, and what role he played in it, isn't revealed.^note Terry Matalas confirmed he deliberately left it open ended so someone else could tell the story. Previously, he had implied in a Tweet that the E had been through too much to keep operating as the flagship, though the exact circumstances are still unclear.
  • In a deleted scene, Worf describes how he was hunting Changelings after the Dominion War and accidentally killed an innocent woman. While he doesn't go into detail, he admits this incident is what drove him towards his pacifistic mindset.
  • Then there's an incident at Krillar Prime that led him to stepping down as Captain of the Enterprise.
• Not So Above It All: When he and Riker are fighting the Borg drones, Riker complains why he's using a sword even though he had a phaser hidden in its hilt the entire time. Worf's response?
  Worf: "Swords are fun".
• Odd Friendship: He gradually forms one with Raffi, whose own passion for the job isn't all that dissimilar to how Worf used to be back in the day. He even implies he leaked out her service record to the public so her family can learn of the person she really is.
• Off with His Head!: When he rescues Raffi from Sneed, he kills the Ferengi gangster and a few of his men this way.
• Older and Wiser: Having been a veteran of several wars, including the Dominion War, Worf had found that his anger was his own worst enemy, and spent many a years working on himself. He even Lampshades that he's much wiser than he used to be.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten:
  • According to the Picard prequel novel, Captain Clancy objected to him being promoted to the captain of the Enterprise-E because of the reprimand he got during the Dominion War (which Sisko did warn him could cost him the chance of getting a captaincy). Picard stood up for Worf, noting that most officers in his position would have done the same thing.
  • Something occurred with the Enterprise-E that Geordi isn't letting Worf off the hook for. Worf maintains that it wasn't his fault.
• Rank Up: Picard's prequel novel revealed that he was made the first officer of the Enterprise-E after Data's death, but became her captain when Picard was promoted to admiral in 2381. Worf later stepped down in 2385, according to the show's Instagram tie-in posts. Worf was then shown in uniform at the end of "Surrender" with four pips — a clip briefly shown in some trailers for the season — denoting a captain's rank and indicting that his commission was reactivated much like Riker's (or simply remained active while he was assigned to Starfleet Intelligence).
• Rule of Symbolism: Discussed In-Universe in the show's prequel novel. Picard successfully argues for Worf's promotion to commander of the Enterprise by pointing out that the Klingons were once the Federation's greatest enemy; by promoting Worf—the first Klingon in Starfleet—to the head of the group's flagship, it would signal to the Romulans that they have moved on from past conflicts and make them more at ease towards helping them evacuate their homeworld.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Once a big-named stickler for regulations, Worf leaks out Raffi's service record so her estranged son and husband can both know what a true hero she really is.
• Senior Sleep-Cycle: Once the Borg are dealt with, he sits in the left chair on the Enterprise-D's bridge...and falls asleep. Data and Geordi chuckle at their comrade.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: According to Picard Showrunner Terry Matalas, Worf remains haunted by his experiences during the Dominion War. His mission in Season 3? Preventing another one.
• Shoot the Dog: When he gets word from Odo that a splinter faction of Changelings have broken off from the Great Link to finally destroy Starfleet for good, he forbids Raffi from investigating their initial attack on a Starfleet Training Base, despite the fact it cost 117 lives. As harsh as it was, Worf reveals that he couldn't tip off the other Changelings into revealing that their own attack Starfleet again, lest it lead into another Dominion War.
• This Is Gonna Suck: As soon as Picard pulls out the cards for a poker game, Worf knows he's going to lose. He folds pretty quickly into the game, much to his frustration.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: His official title is "Worf, son of Mogh, House of Martok; son of Sergey, House of Rozhenko; bane of the Duras family; slayer of Gowron". Another was probably added on in the aftermath of the Borg’s final defeat “Savior of the Empire” by the end of the series.
• Undying Loyalty: He is proudly one to the House of Martok, and to his old comrades on the Enterprise.
• We Want Our Grumpy Klingon Back: Riker's a bit bummed that Worf has mellowed out so much since they last saw each other, and wonders what the hell happened to him that made him like this, especially after Riker pokes fun at his reaction to Section 31’s “attack” tribble.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Nothing is mentioned of Worf's son, Alexander, who was last seen in service to the Klingon Empire, nor does he bring up the whereabouts of his old Deep Space Nine comrades besides a implied mention of Odo.
• The Worf Effect: Ironic as it may be seeing as the Trope Namer was on the receiving end of it for many years, he dispatches the entirety of Sneed's crew with ease when they have Raffi at their mercy. The closest he gets to fulfilling this trope in the straightest fashion are against two Borg Drones in "The Last Generation", and even then, it was only because he is put a massive disadvantage by being outnumbered and outgunned for when he was fighting just one-on-one, Worf was inflicting an earnest Curb-Stomp Battle in spite of his age.

Commander Ro Laren

Commander Ro Laren

Played by: Michelle Forbes

Another veteran of the Enterprise-D. While initially clashing with Picard and his command crew, a mutual respect gradually developed between the captain and the rebellious officer. However, despite her loyalty, Ro ultimately betrayed Picard during a mission to infiltrate the Maquis. Having survived the Dominion's later purge of the Maquis, Ro did time in prison and has now rejoined Starfleet as an intelligence operative.

For tropes related to her prior appearances, see here.

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• Back for the Dead: Ro returns after her last appearance in TNG: "Preemptive Strike", twenty-nine years ago. Sadly, she doesn't survive "Imposter"... maybe, as Word of God stated she was supposed to be revealed to have survived in an unfilmed scene for the finale, which leaves her canonical fate uncertain.
• Calling the Old Man Out: She is not actually his daughter, but the acrimony between Picard and Laren is way too similar to a broken bond between a daughter and father. Her reunion with her former captain is icy and bitter for both of them, as she blasts Picard's flaws and her own old resentments.
• Death by Irony: Ro survived the Dominion's purge of the Maquis, only to still end up getting killed by the Dominion (albeit rogue Founders) decades later. Adding to the irony, Ro — a Starfleet officer who infiltrated the Maquis and ended up defecting — is killed by another Renegade Splinter Faction that's infiltrated Starfleet.
• First-Name Basis: After reconciling with Picard, she began calling him Jean-Luc.
• The Handler: Is revealed to be Worf's superior at Starfleet Intelligence.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Rather than attempt to save herself and potentially fail, Ro rams her shuttle into the Intrepid's nacelle, with both it and the bomb ensuring that the Intrepid won't be pursing the Titan-A anytime soon.
• Never My Fault: Ro still feels that she made the right choice defecting to the Maquis thirty years ago — though deep down, and despite her anger and resentments towards Picard, she does still regret betraying him.
• Properly Paranoid: Ro has taken multiple precautions to protect herself from the Changeling infiltration, such as traveling by shuttlecraft to avoid a transporter "accident". Unfortunately for her, it's ultimately not paranoid enough and the Changelings still take her out, though not before she can pull a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Rank Up: After returning to Starfleet, She had to start over, but she eventually she ended up advancing to the rank of commander.
• Recruiting the Criminal: Having survived the Dominion's purge of the Maquis, Ro did time in a Federation prison before being recruited by Starfleet Intelligence. It's justified, as Ro was a graduate of Advanced Tactical Training. Combine that with skills she picked up while with the Maquis, and she's still a valuable asset for tradecraft operations.
• Redemption Equals Death: While Ro still firmly believes that her decision to join the Maquis was the right one, she does reconcile with Picard. Just before her death, he tells her he finally sees that she never betrayed him as a person or her belief in doing the right thing. Her final act is to save his life and everyone else on the Titan-A.
• Sole Survivor: She was one of the few Maquis members in the Alpha Quadrant that managed to avoid being executed by the Dominion, excluding the ex-Maquis that were stuck with Voyager's crew in the Delta Quadrant.
• Uncertain Doom: Her transmission to the Titan cuts out before the bomb on her shuttle explodes leaving just enough time for her to maybe have found a way to get away before the shuttle strikes the Intrepid's warp nacelle. Word of God statements from Terry Matalas imply Ro might not be as dead as everyone thinks she is.

Daystrom Station

Professor James Moriarty

Professor James Moriarty

"Greetings, old friends."

Played by: Daniel Davis

A holographic incarnation of Sherlock Holmes' archnemesis who gained sentience and then wanted a way to live beyond the restraints of a holodeck by any means necessary. Moriarty is a construct of M-5-10's conscience being acted out in an effort to protect the station as well as connect with any visitor

For tropes related to his prior appearances, see here.

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• The Bus Came Back: He was last seen in the Season 6 TNG episode "Ship In A Bottle", tricked into thinking he'd escaped the holodeck like he'd wanted, when he was secretly sent into another holographic program. However, it actually turns out to be a subversion, as this is another incarnation of Moriarty rather than the original self-aware hologram from TNG.
• Character Aged with the Actor: Similarly to John de Lancie during the previous Season, Daniel Davis is now in his late 70s. So, like Q, the Moriarty hologram now physically appears at that same age, rather than in his forties as he did during TNG. This may be justified in-universe due to the original holodeck programming persisting and Moriarty still experiencing the passage of time even while outwardly deactivated.
• Demoted to Extra: Moriarty is demoted from Villain of the Week for two episodes of The Next Generation to only appearing in about 2 scenes here, acting as security to the Daystrom Station.
• Flat Character: As Riker notes, this isn't the self-aware hologram they encountered on the Enterprise-D, but rather a more basic security measure that only captures the hostility of the original Moriarty program.
• Graceful Loser: Once Riker solves the music puzzle, Moriarty genuinely remarks "Marvelous" and then deactivates.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: His sneering opinion of the (from his perspective) now-elderly Riker and Worf.
  Moriarty: What solvable puzzles you all are. Your unguarded expressions, your physical scars. My, how time has spun you all apart. Such pathetic old warriors!
• Terms of Endangerment: Upon being reactivated, he expresses his delight at being reunited with his "old friends" from the Enterprise-D ... by leveling and cocking a loaded pistol at them.
• Virtual Danger Denial: Much to their shock, Moriarty's holographic pistol fires real bullets at Riker, Worf, and Raffi.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: With the reveal that Daystrom Moriarty is not the same self-aware Hologram from TNG, it leaves open the question of what's become of the original Professor's Tech Cube since "Ship in a Bottle". It's possible Daystrom does have the Cube (and if so, that it would probably be in the Institute's Evil AI Vault back on Earth). The most likely explanation is that when Geordi retrieved the Enterprise-D saucer section to rebuild the entire ship, he found Moriarty's program in there.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Lt. Commander Data

"Survival...it's human nature, pal."

Played by: Brent Spiner

"Greetings, U.S.S. Titan. This is your friendly positronic pissed-off security system back on-line. Unwanted guests and monologuing protoplasms, I am initiating an immediate shift change."

The final project of Dr. Altan Soong before his death; he's actually the amalgamation of the personalities and memories of Data, Lore, Lal, B-4, and Altan Soong mixed into an android with an aged appearance, kept hidden from the public following Starfleet's lifting of the synthoid ban.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: Is the Bigger Fish in question to Vadic's faction of Changelings as, once he is able to resolve the memory partition between Data and Lore and takes control of the Titan back from them, he absolutely wipes the floor with all of the Changelings invading the ship in just a couple of minutes.
• Back from the Dead: A twofer:
  • Lore was deactivated and dismantled by Data over 30 years before the events of Picard. Now, thanks to a small piece of him existing inside M-5-10, he's back to menace his late brother's friends and former shipmates all over again.
  • Data himself is another piece of M-5-10, effectively resurrecting him as well.
• Batman Gambit: When the firewall partioning Data and Lore is removed, Data suspects Lore won't actually erase him—rather, he'll keep all of Data's memories as battle trophies for his own amusement. Data goes along with it and leaves Lore open to "becoming" Data, allowing him to take over his brother.
• The Bus Came Back: Sort of. Lore (or at least a piece of his personality) returns 30 years after his final appearance in "Descent" (and discounting a "cameo" of sorts on Lower Decks).
• Character Aged with the Actor: An interesting contrast with Data's posthumous appearances back in Season One. Unlike Data (where makeup and effects tried to match his TNG Movie-era appearance), M-5-10, like Spiner, now physically appears in his mid-70s. To justify this change, it's revealed that Altan Soong built the android to look more human, and closer to how he was when he died.
• Deadpan Snarker: Data gets to put some of Lore's patented snark and dark humour to use as the Changeling/Borg crisis escalates without seemingly any hope for survival.
  Geordi: Hopefully we have enough juce to get us there.
  Data: What makes you think there hasn't already been destroyed?
  Geordi: Data, could you try being a little more positive?
  Data: ...I hope we die quickly!
• Exact Words: Geordi fears Lore would beat Data and wipe him away for good because Data's programmed not to take a life. Data does beat Lore, but not by taking his life; rather he makes it so Lore "becomes" him.
• Enemy Mine: Played With. Lore only lets Vadic's agents out of the Titan-A's traps so he can spite his old foes, not because he actually wants to team up with them.
• Faux Affably Evil: As shown in "Dominion", Lore is still a smooth-talker to the old Enterprise crew, but he has no lost love for them and will happily destroy them.
• Fusion Dance: In "Surrender" Lore succeeds dominating and subsuming Data — only for Data's memories, which Lore gleefully took as trophies, to effectively overwrite him and make him Data. However, elements of Lore (thankfully not the maniacal ones) merged into Data's personality in the process. For instance: he does have a bit of a sardonic sadistic streak towards his enemies like Lore (as evidenced in his relishing "The Reason You Suck" Speech when purging the Titan of its boarders), but unlike Lore, not everyone is his enemy and he does this act in defense of his friends.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: After absorbing Lore's memories, Data gains the ability to speak with contractions, something he was previously unable to do, and also obviously lie as part of a light jest.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Lore wastes no time in mocking Picard and Geordi for getting old. Of course, now that he actually looks old, he's become one to talk.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Geordi pleads with Data to fight against Lore's control before the villainous android gets everyone on the Titan-A killed. Lore thinks it's a cute, but futile attempt, but Data is able to wrestle control away long enough to keep Jack and Sydney from getting captured.
• Insistent Terminology: Despite being aware of the passage of time and Picard's promotion, Data never once refers to Picard as "Admiral", only "Captain". Likewise, he continues to refer to Riker as "Commander", despite his promotion to captain, and to Troi as "Counselor" despite her being officially retired from both Starfleet and the psychiatric practice.
• Killed Off for Real: Lore is finally "destroyed" for good when Data tricks him into absorbing his memories, effectively turning Lore into Data.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: The memory engram of his cat Spot is the final piece Data surrenders to Lore, and which enables Data to subsume Lore from within. He later confides to Deanna that the sight of an ensign feeding their pet cat on the Titan drove him to tears as he thought about Spot.
• Last of His Kind: A variation. While Altan Soong has since created a new generation of Soong-type androids, the deaths of Data and B-4 mean that Lore (or at least what's left of him) is now the last of the original androids personally constructed by Noonien Soong prior to his death — or at least he is assuming Juliana Soong has finally passed away in the interim since TNG. At the same time, it's intended to be the start of a new breed of androids, as a mix of all three previous Soong type models mixed with the good doctor.
• The Lost Lenore: One of Data's most precious memories is the holographic emitter of the final message of Lieutenant Tasha Yar, who died in 2364 ("Yesterday's Enterprise" notwithstanding).
• Mind Hive: Altan died before he could integrate all of the personalities into one cohesive whole, so instead the various fragments of personality are at war with each other for control. By "Dominion", it's shown that only Lore and Data are the dominant two, as B-4 and Altan's personalities are little more than memories. By "Surrender", Data emerges the winner, but he's become a much different person on account of absorbing all four personalities into one.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Complicated, if arguable example. Season Three's big selling point, of course, is the reunion of the entire TNG Cast for the first time since Nemesis. However, Brent Spiner had retired from playing Data after his character's sendoff in the Season One finale. M-5-10 is thus a workaround to bring Spiner back (while playing into the final Season's theme of legacy and without having to contrive another long-lost Soong relative), while still "technically" playing all four Soongs (Data, Lore, B-4, and Altan) at once.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • In "Dominion", the Titan-A's plan to capture Vadic and her crew would have worked had Lore not taken control of M-5-10 and decided to screw with his old foes just to spit in their faces.
  • Flipped around in "Surrender", where Data's eventual reemergence enables him to take complete control of the ship away from Vadic.
• The Worf Effect: In "Surrender", once Data gains control of the Titan-A, he's able to flush out the entire Changeling boarding party in seconds, even killing off Vadic for good.
• Younger Than They Look: ZigZagged: he is a newly built android with a deliberately aged appearance but with the minds of beings who have already been around for awhile. Whether this trope is played straight or subverted depends upon whether the "Data" who emerges is considered the old Data or a new being given his mind merging with aspects of Lore and other androids.

Civilians

"Number One"

Number One

Played by: De Niro

Picard's pet pitbull at his vineyard in France.

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• Absent Animal Companion: He only appears in the series premiere and is never seen again.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Picard says that he can trust Dahj because his dog would have warned him otherwise.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Carries on Picard's nickname for William Riker from TNG (and his other executive officers).

Dr. Bruce Maddox

Doctor Bruce Maddox

Played by: John Ales

A renowned cyberneticist and former Starfleet officer who worked in the Cybernetics Division of the Daystrom Institute. He previously appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a scientist initially interested in dissecting the android Lieutenant Commander Data in order to manufacture more synthetic lifeforms like him, but later befriended him.

Sometime after the Federation's ban on artificial lifeforms following the synths' attack on Mars, he vanished from the Daystrom Institute. His disappearance was part of the impetus for Picard's quest.

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• The Atoner: He developed the androids Dahj and Soji Asha to help the late Data fulfill his dream of having a daughter.
• Back for the Dead: He dies shortly after being rescued by Picard and co. at the end of his sole appearance in "Stardust City Rag", but not before passing on vital information about Dahj and Soji Asha to Picard.
• Break the Haughty: His haughtiness was mostly broken in “The Measure of a Man” but by the time he appeared in this series it was completely gone.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Compared to his clean-shaven appearance as a Starfleet scientist holding the rank of Commander in TNG's "The Measure Of A Man", the now-civilian Doctor Maddox sports a scruffy beard, indicative of his depression and fugitive status following the Federation's ban on his life's work into research on synthetic lifeforms.
• May–December Romance: He was already a senior enough officer to be consulted when Data first joined Starfleet, around 60 years before the events of the show, making him at least old enough to be Dr. Jurati's grandfather at the time of their liaison.
• Trauma Conga Line: Was exposed as a Fantastic Racist in court, causing him to have a Heel Realization. He befriended Data, only to have him die. His life’s work was outlawed. He was hunted by the Zhat Vash. Finally, he’s killed by his former lover.

Kestra Troi-Riker

Kestra Troi-Riker

Played by: Lulu Wilson

The teenaged daughter of Deanna Troi and William Riker, who lives with her parents on the planet Nepenthe.

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• Big Brother Worship: She continues to use her big brother's invented languages, even though he is dead and she has no one to speak them to (until Soji learns it).
• Constantly Curious: She continuously asks Soji questions about her android abilities, much to Soji's annoyance.
• Dead Guy Junior: She's named for her maternal aunt, who drowned when she was about her age.
• Freaky Is Cool: In a galaxy where synthetic life is feared and hated, Kestra thinks that Soji is one of the coolest people she's ever met.
• Funny Background Event: At the dinner table, over pizza, the adults are all stumped about the location of the planet with two red moons that Soji identifies from her dream as her homeworld. Kestra appears to be "playing" on her 24th century version of a smartphone, uninvolved in the conversation, hiding the phone below the table like a typical kid. Then she surprises everyone with the location of the planet, which she determined using her social media contacts.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Certainly seems to fit both descriptions.
• Innocently Insensitive: When she asks who Soji's father is and Picard mentions Data, Kestra immediately puts two and two together and asks Soji if she's an android. Soji doesn't react well, although it's clear that Kestra is asking out of a genuine sense of curiosity, rather than out of fear or malice.
• Pacifist: She identifies herself as a pacifist to reassure Soji that she won't shoot her, although bunnicorns aren't part of Kestra's "no kill" rule.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: She's first seen hunting with a bow, wearing (in-universe fantasy) tribal paint.
• Tomboy: She likes to pretend that she's one of the "Wild Girls of the Woods" when she's in the forest near her house, and she hunts bunnicorns with her bow and arrows (which are real, as she explains to Soji). Because her homeworld Nepenthe is named after a drug of forgetfulness in Greek mythology, she can be compared to Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Hunting is generally perceived to be a "masculine" activity.
• Uncertain Doom: Word of God says she was attending first year classes at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco during the Frontier Day attack on the Federation by the Borg. It is entierly possible she might have been among the assimilated members of Starfleet's under-25 cohort and unwittingly participated in the attack on her elders. Whether she was assimilated or not, if she surived the Frontier Day massacre, she most likely has some serious trauma over its events, like everyone else, no doubt.
• Uneven Hybrid: She's three-quarters human, one-quarter Betazoid.

Altan Inigo Soong

Altan Inigo Soong

Played by: Brent Spiner

The son of Dr. Noonian Soong and self-professed Mad Scientist, who helped Maddox continue his own father's work after the Federation instituted a ban on synthetic lifeforms. After the death of his physical body, he lives on as one of the fragmentary personalities controlling Daystrom Android M-5-10.

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• A.I.-cronym: Bit of a reverse example, but his initials very pointedly spell out A. I. Soong.
  • After uploading his conciousness into M-5-10 alongside Data, Lore, and Lal, he later becomes an AI for real.
• Brain Uploading: Before he died, he uploaded his mind into Daystrom Android M-5-10 along with the personalities of Data, Lore, B4, and Data's daughter Lal. While the process wasn't what Soong considered "complete", his mind is shown to be intact within M-5-10 and is able to assert control over the android for brief periods.
• Bus Crash: He does not appear in Season 2 and the suplimentary materials for Season 3 reveal that he died shortly after Picard and La Sirena's crew left his synth compound at Coppelius. All of his research materials, including Lore's body, have been bequeathed to the Daystrom Institute posthumously.
• Category Traitor: Despite being a fully biological life form himself, he's perfectly willing to support Sutra in calling in the Synthetic Alliance to exterminate all other biological life in the galaxy in order to protect the synths.
• Generation Xerox: Once again, a Soong family member is played by Brent Spiner. Moreover, Altan's extreme protectiveness of his creations mirror that of his ancestor Arik.
• Heel–Face Turn: As soon as he discovers from Saga's memories that Sutra was the one who actually murdered her, and then used this pretext to manipulate the other synths into supporting the calling of the Synthetic Alliance, he immediately helps the crew of the La Sirena by disabling/killing Sutra during an intermission in the beacon activation ceremony, and giving Elnor, Rios and Raffi the signal to attempt to destroy the beacon itself.
• Like Father, Like Son: He looks a lot like his father and is continuing his father's work in synthetic life-forms.
• Parental Substitute: He sees himself as the father of his android creations, whom he calls "my children."
• Remember the New Guy?: There was no prior indication that Noonian Soong has a biological son.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: He becomes one of the few people to successfully break a Patrick Stewart Speech from the man himself, by tearing into Picard on his failure to sway Starfleet on both the Romulan evacuation and the synth ban after the attack on Mars, when the latter tries to convince the synths to let him be their voice with the Federation.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Resembles not only his father Noonien Soong, but also his ancestors Arik and Adam Soong.
  • And since Soong made Data in his own image, Altan notes that he's what Data would look like "if he got old and soft."
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He seems to harbour some bitterness towards his father because he tells Picard that while Noonian had him, he made Data "and he never let me forget it."

Guinan

Guinan

Played by: Whoopi Goldberg (25th century), Ito Aghayere (2024)

A mysterious El-Aurian bartender and an old friend of Picard's, who used to run "Ten Forward" on the Enterprise-D. Now, she runs a new Ten Forward in Los Angeles.

For tropes relating to her original appearance, see this page.

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• Broken Pedestal: Her younger self decides to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here and leave Earth in the 21st century when she sees how rampantly racist, violent, and selfish they've become.
• The Bus Came Back: She returns after her last on-screen appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis, 31 canonical years prior.
• Foil: To Q, like before. Both are Older and Wiser and come back into Picard's life in Season 2, but she's there to be his moral support, while he's there to instill yet another "test" for humanity. Moreover, her aging up comes from wanting others to be comfortable, while Q does it to mess with his much older foe.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Because the events of "Time's Arrow" from TNG never occurred in the altered reality, Guinan fails to recognize Picard when he arrives at 10 Forward in 2024, even though he still has his memories intact of the encounter.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: She still has this dynamic with Picard, who she happily greets when he comes to visit her bar in LA. When she notices that her old friend seems reluctant to talk about the incident that stunted his desire to have a personal relationship, she happily drops the subject.
• Older and Wiser: Downplayed. She only looks slightly older since her last appearance, and she's just as wise as she always was, but she has gotten older to make humans feel more comfortable around her.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Invoked. She can age if she chooses, and does so to make her patrons not so frightened as seeing her stay young.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In 2024, she decides to cut and run and leave Earth to its fate when humanity's failings grow worse by the day. Picard is able to convince her to stay just a bit longer for the moment.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Ito Aghayere plays a younger Guinan in 2024 instead of Whoopi Goldberg.

Maurice Picard

Maurice Picard

Played by: Clive Church, James Callis

The late father of Jean-Luc Picard.

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• Abusive Parents: Subverted. While Jean-Luc recalls Maurice being very mistreating of his wife, it turns out that she had a severe mental illness that he was struggling to deal with, and kept his son back out of fear for his own safety. All of Picard's recollections were little more than a Self-Serving Memory.
• Bait-and-Switch: His initial appearance in Picard's mind has him bear a striking resemblance to Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, complete with the same uniform and badge. However, it was Maurice the entire time.
• Fake Shemp: Up until Episode 7 of Season 2, Maurice's appearances in Picard have him being played by someone who clearly isn't James Callis.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He didn't want Jean-Luc to go up into space and join Starfleet, wanting Picard to tend to the estate. Picard refused, and the two were on bitter terms before Maurice died. It left Picard with regrets of how things turned out, and, as later revealed, a very different view of the man than who he really was.
• Parents as People: The man struggled with a wife with severe bipolar disorder who was inadvertently hurting her son, and wound up alienating said son in an attempt to keep him safe.
• Posthumous Character: He had died long before Picard became captain of the Enterprise, so his only appearance here is as an illusion and a memory in Picard's mind.
• Technophobia: Picard once mentioned on TNG that he was a very staunch traditionalist, and fought with Yvette over getting a replicator. It's best evident in Picard's mind that there's very little tech in the house, in stark contrast to how he's running things in the present, though the fact that Picard held a very different view of his father compared to how he actually was has put that into question. "Hide and Seek" shows he's using a datapad, suggesting Picard may have been remembering wrong.

Yvette Picard

Yvette Picard

Played by: Madeline Wise

The late mother of Jean-Luc Picard.

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• Abusive Parents: Of the accidental kind. She didn't know it, but she was hurting her son during one of her episodes, leading her husband to lock her in a room in the chateau to keep their son safe.
• Driven to Suicide: She hanged herself after suffering a severe episode of bipolar disorder when Jean-Luc was a boy.
• Freudian Excuse: She's the reason her son had become so stoic and closed off to everyone for many years, as her condition caused her to be locked up during an episode, and when the young and confused Picard unlocked the door for her, she hung herself in the middle of the night. The poor lad was so heartbroken and confused, he denied himself the chance to be loved for so long.
• Posthumous Character: She had passed away many years ago.
• Retcon: "Where No One Has Gone Before" implied that Yvette survived to old age, and that Picard still had fond memories of their encounters in her later years. Picard revealed that she had killed herself in her younger age, and that Picard would often imagine his mother as having lived that long to suppress the memory of that traumatic experience.
• Self-Serving Memory: On her son's part, at least. While he remembered his mother as a kind and gentle woman, she was suffering from severe bipolar disorder that she refused to treat, and hurt her son inadvertently on more than one occasion. She herself also saw Maurice as mistreating her, when he was trying desperately to help her. Later, when it's revealed she committed suicide, Picard would often imagine her as an old woman, as he did in the TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before".
• Unwanted Healing: In the future era of the 24th century, where there's undoubtedly a treatment, if not a cure, for her condition, she refuses any and all attempts at it in spite of her hurting her son.

President Anton Chekov

President Anton Chekov

Voiced by: Walter Koenig

The President of the United Federation of Planets and the son of original Enterprise officer Pavel Chekov.

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• Brief Accent Imitation: While normally speaking with only a very slight accent, he copies his father's thicker accent when quoting him.
• Call-Back: His "do not approach Earth" speech at the beginning of "The Last Generation" is curbed almost word-for-word from the speech given by the Federation President at the start of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in regard to the Whale Probe crisis.
• Cool Old Guy: If he’s the same age as his actor, he’s in his eighties, and shows great courage under fire.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Shares a name with famed Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Given how much of a fanboy his father was of all things Russian, it was likely more intentional in-universe than in the real-world (see Tuckerization below).
• Nerves of Steel: Despite being in the thick of the Borg's assault with Starfleet's own vessels, he remains calm and stays on Spacedock long enough to warn the people of Earth of what's happening.
• Tuckerization: Named partly after Anton Yelchin, who starred as Pavel Chekov in the Kelvin Timeline Trek films before his tragic passing in 2016, marking this the second time Yelchin had been memorialized in the series (the other being the U.S.S. Yelchin in Discovery).
• Uncertain Doom: He manages to finish his speech then cuts the transmission midway his aide telling him to get to an escape pod. There's no indication he was able to get back to Earth before Spacedock fell, and therefore, survived.

Federation News Network

Richter

Richter

Played by: Merrin Dungey

A reporter for the Federation News Network, who interviews Picard on the anniversary of the Romulan supernova.

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• All There in the Script: Her name comes from the closed captioning, and isn't spoken aloud.
• Fantastic Racism: She seems to have a grudge against Romulans, "the Federation's oldest enemy." Picard calls her out on it.
  Picard: The Federation understood there were millions of lives at stake.
  Richter: Romulan lives.
  Picard: No. Lives.
• Immoral Journalist: She goes back on her word not to bring up Picard's retirement from Starfleet, has an obvious bias against Romulans and synths, and interrupts Picard in the middle of responses to steer the conversation toward her intended topic.
• Meaningful Name: "Richter" is the German word for "judge." Her role is harshly criticizing Picard for his sympathy towards the Romulans and the anger at the Federation pulling back from the evacuation.

Allies

Odo

Odo

The former chief of security of Terok Nor for many years prior to The Federation recommissioning it as Deep Space Nine, this shapeshifting lawman spent many a years wondering where he came from before learning that his people were a race of xenophobic conquerors who sought to impose "order". Having played a crucial role in getting them to stand down following years of devastating conflict, he is secretly working behind the scenes to prevent another one, as a rogue faction of Changelings seeks to destroy Starfleet from within.

For tropes relating to his prior appearance, see here.

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• Friend on the Force: He's the friend to his old comrade from the station, Worf.
• The Ghost: He unfortunately doesn't make an appearance in the series due to René Auberjonois's passing, but he is implied to be the one who warned Worf of what the rogue Changelings were attempting.
• Happy Ending Override: He arguably has it worse than Seven of Nine does during this show. DS9 concluded with hopes of Odo leading his people to shed their warmongering xenophobic ways. Instead, we discover that a Renegade Splinter Faction arose due to Odo telling them that Section 31 infected them with the mutagenic virus with the Federation seemingly thinking nothing of it. That said, the fact that there are Changelings in the 32nd century interacting with "Solids" implies he'll eventually succeed.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While his intentions were well-meant, Odo's delivering of the cure that saved the Changelings from the plague they were infected with by Section 31 also brought the knowledge to the Great Link that Starfleet was responsible for the virus and withheld the cure. This radicalized some of the more unforgiving members—specifically those whom Section 31 had experimented on—to forge an Enemy Mine situation with the Borg to wipe Starfleet off the map for good.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Odo's delivering of the cure to the Great Link may have ended the Dominion War, but it drove the more angry members of the Changelings into the arms of the Borg when they learned Starfleet withheld the cure from them.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Because René Auberjonois passed away in 2019, Odo's role in the series is a mention of his actions offscreen in warning Starfleet of the coming danger.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite not appearing in the series, Odo's warning to Starfleet about the rogue Changelings attempting to wipe out their old enemy results in the reunion of the Enterprise-D/E crew, the annihilation of the Borg Collective, and the sparing of Starfleet from total destruction, along with a permanent end to the Dominion War.

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