15 Star Trek Deaths That Didn't Last

12. Jean-Luc Picard- Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek Generations Kirk Death William Shatner
CBS

Oh, Jean-Luc. What have you become?

In a literal sense, an android. One of the numerous but possibly most serious accusations laid at the return of Jean-Luc Picard was that his death in the series finale was utterly ruined by the choice to transfer his essence into a golem.

Picard's irumodic syndrome had been mentioned before in All Good Things... with the new adventures of Jean-Luc acknowledging it almost from the first episode. Yet what fans might have expected - to see this develop over the next few seasons in the background - was all played out in season one.

The finale provided a great Star Trek moment in the meeting of Picard and Data one final time but left a bitter taste for many with the subsequent activation of robo-Picard. Now not only his heart is artificial and fans have been left to wonder if Jean-Luc is really Jean-Luc after the bold plot twist.

Also worth a mention is Q's intervention in Tapestry in which Picard is killed on an away mission and given the chance to alter his own past and avoid that heart replacement. After an Ebeneezer Scrooge "look what you could have won" view, Picard decides to stay the man he was and awakens in sickbay, most likely saved by Q.

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