13 Years Ago, The Walking Dead Brought Back a Fan-Favorite Character and Gave Him The Show’s Most Unique Weapon
TV shows have a habit of dropping characters like a hot potato. There are many reasons a character can disappear from a series, such as the actor landing another gig or the writers running out of ideas for them. However, no matter the explanation, it’s not fair to the audience, who spend their time and energy investing in someone who doesn’t get a fair shake in the end.
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The Walking Dead typically just kills someone it no longer sees in its future, such as Sasha Williams, who is a mainstay in Rick Grimes’ group until she decides to pick a fight with Negan that ends with her turning into a walker and having to be put down by her friends. But she’s not the only one to suffer this fate. In fact, one character finds themselves in a similar situation after
One of The Walking Dead’s Best Characters Gets an Extended Vacation
Rick can’t catch a break after waking up from his coma in
The situation doesn’t sit right with Daryl, but everyone else moves on, since Merle wasn’t exactly a nice person. The group makes it to a farm in Season 2 and lives there until a herd overruns it. Andrea isn’t able to regroup with her friends and finds herself surviving alongside Michonne Hawthorne at the start of Season 3. The world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, though, and Andrea and Michonne soon find themselves captured by a group of people from a place called Woodbury. Leading the charge is none other than Merle, who isn’t sporting a bandage on his injured arm but a bayonet prosthetic.
Merle Dixon’s Return Sets Up The Walking Dead‘s Most Emotional Moment
Bringing Merle back into the fold complicates matters greatly for The Walking Dead. When Rick and his crew initially learn where Andrea is and what’s going on at Woodbury, they want to do what they do best: fight. However, Daryl wants to hear his brother out, especially because he feels like he failed them. Of course, Woodbury’s leader, The Governor, has his own plans, wanting to wipe out anyone who’s a threat to his community. Merle siezes the opportunity and plays nice with Rick, hoping to get a second chance on the side he thinks will eventually win the war.
Down the line, the Governor and Rick cut a deal that everyone believes will end the fighting and allow both communities to live in peace. However, Merle doesn’t buy it, so he goes to kill the Governor and his men. While he gets a few good licks in, Merle dies near the end of Season 3 and turns into a walker. The usually stoic Daryl breaks down when he has to put his brother down because, despite all his flaws, he still loves him. Despite being a show full of death, Merle’s end is easily one of
Scott Bakula Star Trek Bombshell: One Of Archer’s Kids Links To T’Pol
Star Trek: United is conceived as a political thriller and family drama about President Jonathan Archer trying to save the United Federation of Planets from collapse. A spinoff of
Since August, when word that Michael Sussman and Scott Bakula are developing a comeback vehicle for President Archer,
While Michael Sussman hopes to include guest spots for Star Trek: Enterprise's popular characters and actors if Star Trek: United gets a green light from Paramount Skydance, the series wouldn't be an NX-01 reunion and would hinge on President Archer and his brood.
Sussman has teased dollops of information about Star Trek: United's Archer family, and his latest is one of the most fascinating, as Mike reveals President Archer has an adopted child who pays off Jonathan's decades-long friendship with T'Pol.
One Of President Archer’s Children In Star Trek: United Is Vulcan
Mike Sussman: He started out eager, impatient, distrustful of the Vulcans — but by the end of the series, he’d learned humility, empathy, and the weight of leadership. Thirty or so years later, that’s only deepened. He’ll have come far in his relationship with the Vulcans, largely thanks to T’Pol. The lessons Archer learned from her will resonate in his relationships with one of his adult kids, a Vulcan that he and his wife adopted many years earlier.
There's a lot to unpack there. According to Mike Sussman, Archer and his wife adopted a Vulcan child "many years earlier," i.e. before the late 22nd century time frame of
It's unclear whether Jonathan Archer and his mystery wife adopted a male or female Vulcan. Further, it's also unknown who Archer's wife is, or whether President Archer is still married during the events of
President Archer’s 4 Children In Star Trek: United Explained
Star Trek: United is an Archer family affair, and Michael Sussman has revealed that Jonathan's four adult children are scattered throughout the galaxy, working in various careers.
One of Archer's sons serves in Starfleet, but uses his mother's surname, Hernandez, instead of his famous father's. Michael Sussman confirmed this is the son of Jonathan Archer and Erika Hernandez (Ada Maris), the Captain of the NX-02 Columbia, who was Jonathan's former flame introduced in
However, Sussman is keeping it a secret whether Archer and Hernandez ever married, if Erika was Jonathan's wife when they adopted a Vulcan child, or if Hernandez is the mother of Archer's two other children.
Another of Archer's brood works in Federation Intelligence, and perhaps helps clue in their father on the threat to the Federation's future in Star Trek: United. A third Archer child works in diplomacy, while the fourth Archer scion remains a mystery.
A Vulcan Child Completes Archer’s Star Trek Evolution
As Michael Sussman explained to SciFiPulse, Jonathan Archer's relationship with T'Pol, and the greater morphing of how he feels about Vulcans in general, are key to his adopting a Vulcan child in Star Trek: United.
When Star Trek: Enterprise began, Captain Archer was deeply resentful of the Vulcans for holding humans back from jumping headlong into space exploration. Archer also initially distrusted T'Pol when she was placed aboard Enterprise as his Science Officer and First Officer.
As Star Trek: Enterprise continued, T'Pol gained Captain Archer's respect, loyalty, and trust, which is mutual. Archer and T'Pol also uncovered the rot and corruption inside the Vulcan High Command, which was being manipulated by undercover agents of the Romulan Star Empire.
A Romulan named Talok (Todd Stashwick) was one of the operatives posing as a Vulcan. Stashwick went on to play Captain Liam Shaw in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
Everything Jonathan Archer learned about Vulcans in Star Trek: Enterprise, along with his own evolution as a leader and a statesman, factors into how and why President Archer raised a Vulcan as one of his children in Star Trek: United.
