10 Star Trek Characters Who MUST Return (2025)

2. Voyager Cameo(s)

Since Endgame in 2001, all but two of Star Trek: Voyager's main cast have re-appeared in the franchise in some capacity, or capacities. 2025 also marks the 30th anniversary of Caretaker, first broadcast on 16 January 1995. 

At San Diego Comic-Con last year, news broke that Robert Picardo would be reprising his role of The Doctor in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as a series regular. The OG EMH's live-action comeback about 800 years or so in the future is exciting enough. The opportunity for a Voyager cameo or two along with him is too good to miss!

If he can make it to the 32nd century, so can hologram Janeway of Star Trek: Prodigy. The flesh and blood version of Janeway (and Seven of Nine, moreover) has already been to the 29th century. What's another couple for a quick visit?

After all those years, The Doctor must still be longing for his first crew, his first friends, his first family. Perhaps, in Starfleet Academy, we might see more of his holo-images — he was quite a shutterbug — or catch a glimpse at his memories as he daydreams again.