For many years, death in “Star Trek” was a permanent event.
To cite a notable example: when Captain Kirk’s brother Sam (William Shatner) was killed in the episode “Operation — Annihilate!”, he was dead forever.
There wasn’t a storyline later in the series wherein Sam was cloned or resurrected somehow. In 2023, the tune on death has changed, and multiple characters have now died and returned.
Naturally, “Star Trek III: The Seach for Spock” surrounded the resurrection of the title character (Leonard Nimoy).
Every Trekkie can tell you the saga of the death of Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) and her subsequent return in the form of her half-Romulan daughter Sela. Neelix (Ethan Phillips) was killed and brought back via Borg technology in the “Star Trek: Voyager” episode “Mortal Coil,” and Dr.
Culber (Wilson Cruz) was salvaged from a mushroom dimension.
More recently, In “Star Trek: Picard,” Data (Brent Spiner), who…
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