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Spoilers Alison Pill……..

I mean, this season has been one for the books for all the wrong reasons, but Allison Pill was one of it's few highlights. If Cabrera also goes, that leaves the B team of the B team. No thanks.
 
The weird thing about the Picard cast is, they were never supposed to be a crew in the first place. It was retired old Jean Luc and a bunch of mercs and weirdos he assembled for season one. Getting them all together again at the start of season two was enough of a stretch.

And season 3 looks like a full-on TNG reunion anyway, so if they stayed they'd get the TOS Uhura treatment.
 
I kinda wish they’d turn their stories into an audio play or some such. I like the idea of new stories voiced by so many Trek actors, but I can’t bear the gameplay.
Like Big Finish has done for Doctor Who. The potential for something similar for Star Trek is off the charts, but as I understand it the recent Raffi-Seven audio adventure was a first for the franchise. It's surprising it hasn't been done before.
 
Like Big Finish has done for Doctor Who. The potential for something similar for Star Trek is off the charts, but as I understand it the recent Raffi-Seven audio adventure was a first for the franchise. It's surprising it hasn't been done before.

As a fan of Big Finish, I completely agree! And, if I remember correctly, Nicholas Briggs said at the last Big Finish Day that they would absolutely love to get the license to do Star Trek audios. So, fingers crossed!
 
This is a bitter Pill to swallow. Agnes Jurati was insanely entertaining this season, and the most alive member of the cast. By that I mean she was given power to reach all four quadrants of her internal galaxy. No disrespect to the other players intended. I want to make that clear.
 
I just noticed a 2021 movie called All My Puny Sorrows that Allison is in. Might be worth a look to see her as a different character.
 
We can still have hologram Rios
Can we, though? Because I strongly suspect that La Sirena is also gone, due to timey-wimey. Alt!Sirena made the journey to the past, where she was appropriated by Borgati as the start of her Cooperative. And if Agnes as a result disappeared from the main timeline, and Rios disappeared also having stayed in the past...that suggests that La Sirena would also have disappeared. Which means the holos are gone too. Having decided to write Rios out, the show really did go scorched earth on him!
 
I am not done as a viewer with either Jurati or Rios, however PIC's writing team has decided on the matter. I would hope for follow-up stories in other series, also.
 
Can we, though? Because I strongly suspect that La Sirena is also gone, due to timey-wimey. Alt!Sirena made the journey to the past, where she was appropriated by Borgati as the start of her Cooperative. And if Agnes as a result disappeared from the main timeline, and Rios disappeared also having stayed in the past...that suggests that La Sirena would also have disappeared. Which means the holos are gone too. Having decided to write Rios out, the show really did go scorched earth on him!
Oh, duh. Well, I think Chris Rios is done, then. Santiago is in demand, so I am happy for his career. I honestly think that we're going to have someone come back to the story with the good Borg. But unfortunately I think they'll resolve it in Discovery. Like having poor Queen Aggie be hanging out for another 700 years alone.
For her sake I'd hope that instead they let Allison have her own TV special, like a two-hour movie, that focuses on the guardians at the gate.
 
If Santiago Cabrera also exits, that leaves Michelle Hurd, Isa Briones, and Evan Evagora carrying the standard of newly-introduced leads for the final season. And that's assuming Soji even factors in at all. (My guess is she'll have a subplot in one episode.)

Raffi and Elnor sticking around aboard their starship makes sense.

I'm still bitter that we got zero resolution with Narek. I get it, people didn't like the "incest twins," but damn. They literally cut out the scene where he's arrested.
Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, and Santiago Cabrera have all confirmed that they are not in season 3, as has Allison Pill. Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd have confirmed that they are. It appears Seven and Raffi will be the only ones to remain.

And let's be honest here. That makes sense. We know that season 3 is to be a full-on TNG reunion, one last adventure for that cast. It would be difficult, at best, to combine that with an entirely different cast from seasons 1 and 2. And in a more practical sense, I doubt the budget could support that.

Of course, there could be some surprises. But if season 3 is about the old TNG crew, I suspect they won't be sharing the spotlight with a lot of "the new guys."
 
Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, and Santiago Cabrera have all confirmed that they are not in season 3, as has Allison Pill. Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd have confirmed that they are. It appears Seven and Raffi will be the only ones to remain.

It's extremely disappointing that Elnor and Sojii won't be part of the S3 cast. I was really hoping to see the TNG crew, particularly Geordi, meet Data's daughter. And I think Worf and Elnor would have been a really interesting pair!
 
It's extremely disappointing that Elnor and Sojii won't be part of the S3 cast. I was really hoping to see the TNG crew, particularly Geordi, meet Data's daughter. And I think Worf and Elnor would have been a really interesting pair!

Agreed on all counts. Dropping Soji especially feels like a miss. At least Elnor got a bit of...well, maybe not character development, but at least attention in S2. He mattered to the narrative on some level. Soji just got ejected. Letting her at least meet Data's closest friend would be something.
 
I really liked S2 for the most part, but not developing Soji is an absolute crime.

ETA: As I'm thinking about it, I think it bothers me so much because the structure of S1 was as much about Soji as about Jean-Luc. In a very real sense, PIC S1 is built around the relationship between Jean-Luc and Soji, their building trust and establishing an ersatz grandfather/granddaughter relationship. Not having Soji right there with Jean-Luc all throughout S2 was a major mistake. End edit.

The good news is that the door is still open for Soji to return at some point in a future 25th Century spinoff.
 
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