Usually children in these kinds of shows.. and the characters they play play.. can be a little much. I really liked this kid. she had so much personality, so much eagerness. The little girl holds the screen every time the camera is pointing at her.
Kestra
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Lulu Wilson was only about 13 when that ep was recorded (14 now). She has a fairly long history as an actor and is very busy, it is easy to see why. Her chemistry with Isa Briones was natural and magnetic, a highlight of an already excellent episode.
I wonder how Will and Deanna would react if Kestra enlisted in Starfleet...
I hope they don't rapid-age Kestra like they did with Naomi Wildman.
She seems like an imaginative person who enjoys adventure. So, limiting to things we know are options, that probably means:
1. Starfleet
2. A field researcher for one of the Institutes ("this belongs in a museum"
)
3. An author
4. A criminal, but probably more like Vash than Harry Mudd.
1. Starfleet
2. A field researcher for one of the Institutes ("this belongs in a museum"
)3. An author
4. A criminal, but probably more like Vash than Harry Mudd.
I'd vote for a Starfleet academy in a few years with her as the lead.. I'd watch that!
She was likeable. But looked nothing like either of her parents!
Maybe she was adopted? Maybe both of their kids were: there's no telling what effect the events of "The Child" had on Deanna's ability to have more kids later.
Or maybe she was genetically engineered. We know that it's illegal to make genetically enhanced children, but I don't know that it has been clearly stated that it isn't allowed to make genetic selections for your children that do not result in a superior being. I'd think hair color and pattern, eye color, and skin color, would probably all be safely on the table, with maybe some counseling required to make sure that the parents aren't making selections based on some sort of supremacist nonsense.
They hired a good actor, which is much better than hiring a "mini me"
The blond hair likely came from recessive genes inherited from some of Deanna's and Will's grandparents (though have we ever seen Riker's mother? She might have had blond hair)
Or they pulled a reversal on an old joke, and that's really O'Brien's kid. 
I doubt Kestra was genetically engineered. The Rikers don't strike me as the type who would do that.
Me, either, under most circumstances, but perhaps it was "encouraged" by the fact that they needed a little bit of genetic engineering anyway in order to get the Betazoid half of Deanna to jive with the rest?
But okay: The theory about her really being O'Brien's kid it is, then.
Wait till she meets the sentient Bunnicorn at ops .
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