10 Star Trek Characters With Wasted Potential
2. Elnor
"Please, my friends. Choose to live."
Elnor, or 'Space Legolas' as fans lovingly came to call him, was arguably one of the best parts of seasons one and two of Star Trek: Picard. The character was only a small child when it was learnt that the Romulan sun was about to go supernova, making him a refugee. Thanks to Picard, he was resettled on the planet Vashti under the care of a group of kick-ass warrior nuns called the Qowat Milat. Although he could never be fully part of their order, to say he learnt some skills from them would be an understatement. Let's be absolutely candid: Elnor is a sword-wielding, head-chopping, scene-stealing, bloody badass!
Picard went incommunicado for a few years after the synth attack on Mars (complicated times!), but the pair eventually reunited and Elnor pledged himself (as a 'qalankhkai' – try saying that three times fast – or 'freeblade') to Jean-Luc's latest cause.
The real issue came with how the character fared in season two of Picard. In the very first episode, The Star Gazer, it was revealed that Elnor had joined Starfleet Academy, making him the first fully Romulan Romulan to do so. Not long thereafter, when he, Seven, Picard, Raffi, Rios, and Jurati were transported to an alternate timeline that made the Mirror Universe look warm and cuddly by comparison, Elnor was shot by Seven's "idiot [parallel] husband" and died of his injuries.
Aside from in a few of Raffi's grief-induced hallucinations, and as an Emergency Combat Hologram (ECH) created in his image, we unfortunately saw very little of Elnor throughout season two before his miraculous (but very welcome) resurrection in the finale Farewell.
It has been confirmed for a while now that Evan Evagora, who played Elnor, will NOT be returning for Picard season three so we don't know when, or even if, we will be seeing this fan-favourite, and thoroughly underused, character again.
Suffice it to say – we want more Elnor!