In some news that’s sure to come as a blow to many genre fans, Brint Spiner has had to exit Supergirl.

It was only last month that Spiner – best known as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation – joined the show as the vice president of the United States, and now he’s had to leave the series over scheduling conflicts. But fear not, for another genre fave has already been brought in as a replacement.

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, TRON and Babylon 5’s Bruce Boxleitner will replace Spiner as Vice President Baker – a character currently pegged as “an unlikely leader who will nonetheless step up in a big way when his country needs him.”

The current blurb on Supergirl’s upcoming fourth season reads:

Season 3 saw Supergirl stop Reign and the other Worldkillers’ threat to humanity and our planet, and in the process, Kara was shocked to find her mother Alura alive and living in a salvaged Argo City that survived the destruction of Krypton. Reconnecting with her past caused Kara to realize that her true home is now here on Earth, where big changes are taking place for her and all of her friends in National City – and also, it appears, for a doppelganger in Russia!

Supergirl returns to screens October 14th.