10 Star Trek Characters Who MUST Return (2025)

8. Sela

Well, let's not break with tradition. This dastardly half-Romulan has appeared on every version of this list since this list was sent back in time to 2021 to ensure its own existence. We've said it four times before. Sela MUST return to Star Trek.

Save for a hologram, Denise Crosby was conspicuously absent in Star Trek: Picard's third season. Sela, also Crosby's idea, has been missing since 1991 and/or 2368. With no more Star Trek: Lower Decks (that we know of), and more Star Trek: Prodigy looking unlikely, Star Trek: Legacy now seems like the best chance for the character's return. Revenge is a dish best served in the still slowly cooling wake of a supernova.

Let's not count Sela out for time travel either! That is how she came to be. There are other ways to get to the 32nd century, too, such as cryogenics. That has bad guy and gal already written all over it. Paul Giamatti will be playing the season one foe for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Villainy loves company. Perhaps Sela can be the accomplice, if not the mastermind!