Agreed. It's just a lazy writing trick to stick one set of characters in a cupboard until you need them to prop up the plot. Star Trek: Generations did the same with Kirk.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
