Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Reveals Riker and Troi Named Their Child After a Next Generation Character ✖ Star Trek: Picard caught up with Jean-Luc Picard's former shipmates, William Riker and Deanna Troi, in the episode "Nepenthe." The story revealed that Riker and Troi had two children but lost their eldest, their son Thad, to an illness that required treatment with banned synthetic technology. Thad was a creative boy fascinated by linguistics. He came up with an entire fantasy world to match a language he had developed. In a Star Trek: Picard's first season showrunner Michael Chabon rev...