10 Star Trek Characters That Just VANISHED

Kestra Riker, named for her aunt who died as a child, lived on Nepenthe with her parents, Will and Deanna. She was a confident, outspoken young woman, one with boundless imagination and energy. She is directly responsible for helping Soji, who had recently discovered her android status, understand herself better, while also helping to find Soji and Picard a destination when it came to the former’s planet. 

Simply put, she was a damn good kid. 

While the Riker-Trois weren’t the main focus of Star Trek: Picard, the third season sees both Will and Deanna return to the show. They both enjoy plenty of screen time but their young daughter is nowhere to be found. Her absence was semi-explained with her attending the Academy, though she was also nowhere to be seen, nor apparently thought of, during the Borg plot of Frontier Day, 2401. 

Starfleet’s younger officers and cadets, all of those under 26 that is, who had passed through a transporter had effectively been quietly assimilated and, if Kendra was indeed at the Academy, that probably put her in the crosshairs there too. 

Showrunner Terry Malalas has jokingly suggested that she, and Elnor, were on Earth, leading the ground war against the Borg. This would probably suit her well, as her forestry skills would surely aid her in evading capture. However, while her parents were busy trying to save Jack Crusher, Alandra and Sidney La Forge, they never seemed to spare a thought for their own daughter. 

Perhaps they were simply so confident in her skills, they knew that they had nothing to worry about. There are worse things to be fair.