Author: Chris Snelgrove Published
although Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The show features many talented actors playing familiar series characters like Pike, Kirk, and Spock, but there are also quite a few fresh characters. That includes Christina Chong, whose character “La’an”—a stern security chief who’s learning to show his softer side—often manages to steal every scene she’s in.
Recently, she discussed her hopes for an official Star Trek and Doctor Who crossover, but her ambitious plans would kill both series faster than you can say “bow ties are cool.”
Play two roles at once, man.
At a recent Chicagoland event, the actor discussed her bold idea for a crossover, which dates back to doctor who Episode “Good Men Go to War.” In that episode, she played a 52nd-century soldier, and Chong told the panel she would have loved a story that officially made her a reality. doctor who character and her strange new world The character is the same person. She admits she’s not sure how exactly this works, but she likes suggestions from fans that maybe the characters are augmented twins who were separated at birth.
While Chong’s idea is particularly crazy, the concept of a Star Trek and Doctor Who crossover is nothing new. We are very close to achieving a crossover between the two doctor who and Star Trek: Enterprisebut once these plans come to nothing enterprise Stopped abruptly. Since then, there have been a number of interesting (albeit non-canonical) crossover comics, most recently the strange new world Featuring a background cameo from the TARDIS and Carol Kane’s character describing a previous run around with a guy who sounded terrible a lot of Just like a doctor.
As such, an official on-screen crossover might feel completely inevitable, especially for fans of both series. Unfortunately, Christina Chong’s idea will have to wait, maybe even a long time. That’s because both Star Trek and Doctor Who are in a very precarious position right now and can’t rock the boat with a timely crossover that would split their respective fan bases down the middle.
Why this crossover can’t happen now
Let’s start with Star Trek, which Paramount’s new leadership plans to relaunch with a new movie that won’t (for better or worse) be tied to any of the previous shows or movies in the series. It looks like they wanted to reboot the series for a third time to create something more in line with the company’s new direction. Notably, the studio recently fired its awards team, signaling a desire to stop chasing Oscars and Emmys and instead create safe, middle-of-the-road content that will attract as many Paramount+ subscribers as possible.
cross between strange new world and doctor who would upend that vision in a profound way, adding an unprecedented cameo at a time when executives wanted to play it safe with Star Trek. Plus, Doctor Who is a very funny series, which means the crossover will be designed to be an irreverent comedy. This may annoy the growing number of fans strange new worldSeason three focused on over-the-top comedy (including an episode in which Spock explained fart jokes to fellow Vulcans) rather than anything more serious.
death of a doctor
Another reason why this crossover would be a disaster is doctor who It’s actually going to be a heavy weight around Star Trek’s neck. Recently, the highly anticipated Disney+ era doctor who After the end of the second season, with the departure of the protagonist Ncuti Gatwa, the recent partnership with the BBC was completely dissolved. A million more people tuned in to watch the Jodie Whittaker era than the Gatwa era, and Disney failed to renew Doctor Who amid reports that ratings were plummeting and a backlash against the show’s so-called “woke” storytelling.
I’m a huge fan of both series, and I would personally like to eventually see some sort of crossover between Star Trek and Doctor Who. But even if Christina Chong’s idea isn’t crazy (would anyone? real Want to see an atheistic, peace-loving character from the 23rd century transformed into a religious soldier? ), Star Trek’s leadership was hesitant to make any major changes, and Doctor Who was dead with no regeneration to save it. A crossover would most likely kill both franchises, so they need to remain separate until executives have the heart (or better yet, the two hearts) to make this in-universe team-up finally happen.
