Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Raffi Musiker

3. Family Matters In The Final Frontier

Raffi's journey on-screen is one of harrowing loneliness that Star Trek rarely dived into. While many of the other series focused on their Starfleet characters' challenges and growth, most of them were shown with a fairly steady foundation. The same could not be said for Raffi.

In the years that followed the Mars attack, her family broke apart. The show doesn't deny that it was Raffi's obsession, combined with her addictions, that was responsible for this. Her marriage broke apart and her relationship with her son Gabriel grew stale.

The vindication that Raffi receives takes time, as does the path to reconciliation with her family. Although she is proven correct about the reasons behind the Synth attack, it takes a further two years before she, Jae Hwang and Gabriel can truly head toward putting the past behind them. Through Raffi, a difficult, often painful family journey offers viewers a realistic portrayal of trauma. 

It may take a little nudge from the Son of Mogh to get the family speaking again, but there is no question that Raffi has earned every part of the forgiveness she seeks from her family by the closing scenes of The Last Generation. Where, then, does that leave her going forward?