10 Star Trek Characters That Just VANISHED

Across the sixty year history of Star Trek, there have been hundreds of characters who have arrived, disappeared, reappeared, and seared their place in the universe’s story. Many of them have stuck around for years at a time, like the crew of the Original Series, or Worf. Seriously, Worf is just everywhere in this franchise. 

Hey, what’s that behind you? 

I’m kidding - it’s Worf. 

There are however those characters who may be here for some time but then, like Keyzer Söze himself, vanish into a puff of smoke. Some may have received a bit of an explanation in the years that have passed, while others were simply gone baby. Gone. 

This list will include those examples of people who have never been heard from again, or people whose absences were never truly explained. There will be humans, there will be Romulans, there may even be a love interest or two - who’s to say, really, when there are so many faces on the missing posters in Star Trek? 

Get the police ready for the door to door checks as we go through our list of the great unknown.

Yes, yes, we know. It’s a TrekCulture list, therefore it must have an entry on Sela. However, there’s a simple reason why she keeps popping up here - her story is incomplete, and the opportunity to explore more of the half-human, half-Romulan Commander is rapidly passing us by. Unification part two saw Sela’s plan to invade Vulcan thwarted by Ambassador Spock, Lt. Commander Data, and Captain Picard. Let us not forget - this was done with the full knowledge of the then-praetor Neral. It seems highly unlikely that her career survived that setback.

Inter Arma Enim Silent Legis established that Neral was still in charge of the Romulan Senate (this would not last), which means a scapegoat almost definitely took the blame for the invasion plot. It takes little reasoning to imagine this was Sela herself. 

What happened to her? Was she executed? Was she sent to a Romulan penal colony to toil alongside some Remans? Romulans don’t have a reputation as the most forgiving of people, so barring execution, there was still little chance at a career bounce back for her. 

Star Trek Online has suggested that she was at least partly responsible for the supernova that destroyed much of the Romulan Star Empire. That being the case, is Sela still out there? Does she still hold a grudge against Spock, Data, and Picard? Technically, all three have died since she last saw them - would that settle the debt, were she to return? Can she return? We need to know.