10 Star Trek Characters Who MUST Return

10. Garak

If put aside for a moment the sheer fanboy element of this entry, there is a very real reason that Garak needs to return to Star Trek. He is one of the strongest characters in terms of intrigue and development, while also now serving as a representative of the Cardassian Union in the years after the Dominion War.

Star Trek: Picard has shown the audience an Alpha Quadrant that is more isolationist, with a Starfleet that was initially much more insular. That, ironically, sounds very like the Cardassian Empire of the 2360s and 70s. The close of the war sees Garak return home. As he is apparently the last surviving member of the Obsidian Order, and the government had been smashed with the removal of Dominion troops, he is now the most qualified man to lead Cardassia.

This may be a far cry from the tailor who struck up a conversation with Dr Bashir over lunch. However, time and time again, Andrew Robinson played the character to such perfection that it would be a crime to never see him again - particularly when so much of the expanded media has focused on him.