WARNING: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 6 – "The Bounty".Star Trek: The Next Generation's Professor James Moriarty actor, Daniel Davis has hinted that the villain could return after his recent appearance in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Davis played a holographic version of Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis in two classic episodes of TNG, which was created to outwit Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner). Picard season 3, episode 6 reveals that Data has been resurrected as a secure A.I. designed to protect the secrets of Daystrom Station, and he generates a Moriarty hologram to confront intruders Captain William Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Captain Worf (Michael Dorn), and Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd).
In an exclusive Daniel Davis interview with Screen Rant, the actor has hinted that this may not be the last that viewers will see of Moriarty in the Star Trek universe. With so many Star Trek shows taking place in the time period after Moriarty's genesis in the holodeck of the USS Enterprise-D, there's great potential for the character to return. Here's what Daniel Davis had to say about the prospect of reprising the role of Moriarty:
"As far as Moriarty is concerned, I spoke to one of the producers when I was in Los Angeles shooting this episode, and she said to me, "Well, you know, Moriarty is one of those characters who can pop up just about anywhere in the Star Trek universe." Because there are other Star Trek shows now [like] Discovery, and Strange New Worlds. Even my dear friend Kate Mulgrew is voicing Janeway in the cartoon. So maybe Moriarty will show up. He may not be done yet. We don't know. But fingers crossed."
