Bringing up the question of equal treatment of the sexes when it comes to death and resurrection is fair, but I think the greater percentage of male characters returning from the dead is a function of Trek having had more male characters die than female characters. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Yar, Jadzia, and Janeway. And, arguably, Yar and Jadzia have been been undermined by "partial" resurrections, introductions of new characters to whom the audience has the same or similar attachments -- Yar may be dead, but Denise Crosby came back as Sela multiple times; Jadzia may be gone, but Ezri, Dax's new host showed up immediately thereafter.
I think that maintaining verisimilitude by not bringing any more dead characters back is more important, and that gender equality should be pursued by how the fiction depicts the characters who are alive.
You are not even close, and counting a new character as an old one just because she is played by the same actress is misleading.
It's also more than Kirk or Trip ever got canonically.
The numbers are 6 male deaths
?
Are we going by canon or are we including non-canonical death stories? If we're going by canon, I count 4: Kirk, Spock, Data, and Trip. (This is ignoring one-time-only "minor" deaths, like O'Brien or Janeway dying and being replaced by time travel shennanigans in "Visionary" and "Year of Hell," respectively.)
or 20% of the male main characters have died. All have been returned to a living state in one media form or another, including Data who is alive and well in the comics.
If you're going to hold Data's resurrection in the
Countdown miniseries which is not in continuity with the "Destinyverse" novels, then you should
credit Pocket Books for featuring Janeway still being alive and having never died at all in the
Online-verse book
The Needs of the Many.
ETA: Seriously, which continuities are you counting and not counting? Because I'm aware of at least two continuities in which Janeway is alive and well and only one in which she's dead. End ETA.
All got to return as themselves not as some reoccurring Romulan villain.
Actually, there's a strong argument to be made that B-4 at the end of NEM was the same situation as Sela: A separate but nearly identical character played by the same actor, intended as an emotional surrogate for the "lost" character.
Four females have died or 25% of the female main characters,
This is a strong argument that canonical
Star Trek failed at gender parity in its casting, with which I would agree.
It doesn't matter how many more men die than women when they all get to come back
Actually, Scotty died just last year in the novel
Indistinguishable From Magic, and I damn well hope
he stays dead, too. And similarly, I'm glad that the "Destinyverse" novels have kept Data dead and not allowed him to come back via B-4 the way the
Countdown comic did -- and that they've also gotten rid of B-4 was anything more than an incredibly minor character. The "Destinyverse" novels have kept both Scotty and Data dead, so you should factor that into your equation.
but none of the females are allowed to.
"Allowed?" What? There's a good chance Janeway
is coming back. When you say "allowed," are you referring to my personal opinion that Janeway shouldn't coming back?
'Cos if you are, let's specify: I'm just some dude on the Internet. I don't get to decide who's "allowed" to come back or not. I
do think that Janeway should stay dead in the "Destinyverse" novels. I also think that Kirk should stay dead, and Scotty should stay dead, and Data should stay dead, and Duffy should stay dead, and Zelik Leybenzon should stay dead, and Jaza Najem should stay dead. And I think that at this point, it's ridiculous to see Sulu, Chekov, and McCoy still running around, that they ought to kick the bucket at some point.
