Brent Spiner appeared in 177 episodes of “Subsequent Technology,” absent solely from “Household” (October 1, 1990). Spiner greater than made up for his absence, nevertheless, by taking part in Knowledge’s evil twin Lore in 4 episodes, and Knowledge’s aged creator Dr. Noonien Soong in a single. He performed 4 completely different Outdated West characters in “A Fistful of Datas” (November 7, 1992), and an android prototype named B-4 in “Star Trek: Nemesis.”
Spiner would go on to play ancestors and descendants of Soong all through “Star Trek,” together with Arik Soong in three episodes of “Enterprise,” Adam Soong in 5 episodes of “Picard,” and Altan Soong in two further episodes of “Picard.” Knowledge type of returned for the third season of “Picard” as nicely, though it was extra an amalgam character of all of the androids he had performed earlier than. That new Knowledge, truly named Daystrom Android M-5-10, appeared in 5 episodes.
Marina Sirtis performed Counselor Troi in 174 episodes of the present, absent from 4 episodes within the first season. The writers defined that the character was normally attending psychology lectures. Troi was, nevertheless, in three episodes of “Star Trek: Voyager,” nonetheless serving as a helper to the neurotic Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz). She additionally appeared in “These Are the Voyages,” in addition to seven episodes of “Picard,” an episode of “Decrease Decks,” and a “Very Quick Trek.”
LeVar Burton was in 176 episodes of the collection, and solely went on to look in 5 episodes of “Picard.” He additionally had a cameo within the “Star Trek: Voyager” episode “Timeless” (November 18, 1998). Burton additionally directed many “Star Trek” episodes, together with two of “Subsequent Technology,” 10 of “Deep House 9,” eight of “Voyager,” and 9 of “Enterprise.”
As talked about, Gates McFadden was fired for the second season of the collection (a producer hated her for some purpose), however she got here again in season three. As such, she was solely in 152 episodes of the collection. She did, nevertheless, return for 10 episodes of “Picard,” and three episodes of the animated collection “Star Trek: Prodigy.” She additionally directed one episode of “Subsequent Technology.”
Wil Wheaton, in the meantime, left the collection early on, and solely appeared in 68 episodes. He was additionally within the film “Nemesis,” two episodes of “Picard,” and eight episodes of “Prodigy.”