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Brian Brophy didn’t return?

Great Brophy interview! Talks about his early life, family and being a teacher, being neurodivergent, Star Trek (TNG and Picard), and a long discussion of the Shawshank Redemption.

https://www.stitcher.com/show/monday-morning-critic
Ep 272 "The Shawshank Redemption" - Dec 24, 2021
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He went to high school in Bozeman Montana, the future site of First Contact!
 
Brophy is an expert at taking things apart, but not so good at putting them back together afterward.

That would be funny, Maddox gets permission to disassemble Data, but when he puts Data back together there are some leftover screws and Isolinear chips.

Maddox just tries to shove them under a couch cusshion when Picard and Riker walk in...
 
Brian Brophy didn't return?

Unfortunately Modman did - he is far away from ever reaching Brophy's standing, though.
 
Talk on the Dark Web is Brian Brophy took personal leave from CalTech to combat Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine. He should be parachuting in over Kurakhove in the Donbas any minute now.
 
I kept waiting for Brophy to casually walk out of the anomaly in the season 2 finale, and hearing some ignorant ensign on the Stargazer ask, "Where's his starship?!" And Picard answering, "What does Brian Brophy need with a starship?!"
 
Does anybody know why Brian Brophy did not return in Star Trek Picard when the character of Bruce Maddox returned? Was the original actor not available?

Do you think that the portrayal of Bruce Maddox in Star Trek: Picard was consistent to that of what had been established about the character in his original Star Trek: The Next Generation appearance?

Why did they decide to kill off the Maddox character so quickly?

The only other character that I can think of in Picard that was recast is Icheb? Does anybody know why this character was also recast and killed off so quickly in such a brutal way? This character was originally played by Manu Intiraymi. Icheb was like a son to Seven of Nine.

Thank you for any assistance that you can provide me in this matter, I am trying to keep my job. I hear that there could be…

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