10 Star Trek Characters Worthy Of A Resurrection
Who are the people that have yet to have their own Easter Sunday in Star Trek?
Death is meaningless when there's a good story to be told. Time after time, Star Trek has offed a character, only to bring them back again when the time calls for it. The biggest example has to be Spock. News of his death was leaked before the release of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, so the buzz around it was so great - that Star Trek III: The Search For Spock followed quickly after.
Since then, we've had androids finding new bodies, doctors riding the mycelial network, and clones, clones, clones! It seems that reading your own death scene in the script may simply be the first thing you film that week. No holiday time for you, young whipper snapper!
That then leads to the question - well, who are the characters who haven't come back to life, and why the heck haven't they? Adding to that is the fact that there are some truly fantastic stories that abruptly ended, before the finish line, leaving some audiences rather dissatisfied. There is probably enough material for several of these lists, so let's start with the ten we believe require an immediate infusion of Khan's super-blood.
10. Cal Hudson
Calvin Hudson, played by the late Bernie Casey, was a fascinating character introduced in Deep Space Nine's The Maquis. He was like Ben Sisko in many ways - both had graduated from the Academy together, both had been mentored by Curzon Dax, and both had lost their wives. Hudson's assignment to the Demilitarized Zone exposed him to the abuse the colonists received at the hands of the Cardassians, convincing him to join the Maquis.
Michael Pillar actually saved Hudson from dying. As the script was being worked out, Ira Stephen Behr originally concluded the episodes with Hudson's death, but this was vetoed, not least on the strength of Casey's performance. When interviewed at the time about his involvement, Casey was enthusiastic about the role, even suggesting he would be delighted to appear on Star Trek: Voyager in some capacity.
Instead, Hudson was given an ignoble, off-screen death, dying in a skirmish with Cardassians. This has never felt like a fitting ending for a character who, there but for the grace of the Station, could well have been our hero character throughout. Hudson's return - exactly as he was at the time of his death - would also serve to reintroduce the Maquis to Star Trek, so to have that viewpoint on the admittedly darker Federation of the future would be quite a mirror to hold to it.