Examples of Role Reprise where the actor returned to voice the role in Star Trek: Lower Decks - these include any cases where the role was originated in a different medium (e.g. video games or live action).
There is a minimum time gap for most examples. To qualify for the trope, the gap between appearances (based on release date) should be 5 years or more.
For the purpose of this trope, variants such as Alternate Universe and Alternate Continuity versions are treated as the same character.
- In "Veritas", John de Lancie reprises his role as Q for the first time since "Q2".
- In "We'll Always Have Tom Paris", Robert Duncan McNeill appears as Tom Paris, having last appeared on screen in "Endgame" 20 years earlier. In Season 4, he also reprises his first Trek role as Nick Locarno, an incredibly rare SECOND reprisal, for the first time since "The First Duty" 31 years earlier.
- "I, Excretus" has Alice Krige make a brief cameo as the voice of the Borg Queen, a character she last played in "Endgame" 20 years earlier.
- "First First Contact" sees the return of Lycia Naff as Sonya Gomez for the first time since "Samaritan Snare" 32 years earlier, a franchise record.
- James Cromwell reprises his role as Zephram Cochrane in "Grounded" for the first time since "Broken Bow" 21 years earlier.
- In “The Least Dangerous Game”, J.G. Hertzler appears as a hologram of Martok, the first time he’s reprised the role on-screen since "What You Leave Behind" 23 years earlier.
- In “Mining the Mind’s Mines”, Susan Gibney voices a hologram of Dr. Leah Brahms, having last played the character in "Galaxy’s Child" 31 years earlier.
- Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman appear as Kira Nerys and Quark respectively in “Hear All, Trust Nothing”, marking their first on-screen appearances since "What You Leave Behind" 23 years earlier.
- George Takei returns as Hikaru Sulu (or possibly just a hallucination or hologram) in "Crisis Point II: Paradoxus" for the first time since "Flashback", 26 years earlier.
- Max Grodénchik and Chase Masterson return as Rom and Leeta for the first time on-screen since "The Dogs Of War", 24 years earlier.
- Shannon Fill makes a cameo appearance as Sito Jaxa during a flashback in "Old Friends, New Planets", having last played the character in the original "Lower Decks", a twenty-eight year gap. Notably, she had stopped acting all together shortly after that previous appearance and came out of retirement to reprise her role.
