Details of unpublished DS9/Doctor Who crossover

[DS9forever]

Pitched to IDW by writer Tony Lee, entitled Domination.

[https://www.facebook.com/mrtonylee/posts/10152862440578870]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/12/tony-lees-pitch-for-a-doctor-whodeep-space-9-crossover/

 

[Markonian]

Why, oh why couldn't they produce that? Can't get enough of good Trek crossovers at the moment.

 

[Leto_II]

OH F**KING DAMMIT, this would've been freaking awesome. My past-self especially would've killed to have something like this back when DS9 was still on the air.

 

[Sci]

OH F**KING DAMMIT, this would've been freaking awesome. My past-self especially would've killed to have something like this back when DS9 was still on the air.

That would have been quite the accomplishment, since the Eleventh Doctor and Clara weren't created until 11 and 13 years after DS9 went off the air, respectively...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Why, oh why couldn't they produce that? Can't get enough of good Trek crossovers at the moment.

So we now know of four unused Star Trek/Doctor Who ideas from IDW:

• John Byrne's third Doctor/Gary Seven story
• Paul Cornell's second Doctor/original series story
• Tony Lee's eleventh Doctor/Deep Space Nine story
• The Tiptons' story (which they announced at NYCC 2012 and, based on concept art, was probably eleventh Doctor/original series)

I live in the hope that someday we'll get the Star Trek/Doctor Who story we deserve.

 

[Idran]

Going outside IDW, don't forget that live-action crossover Davies tried to get going with Enterprise back during its run.

 

[Disco]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Going outside IDW, don't forget that live-action crossover Davies tried to get going with Enterprise back during its run.

Sometimes I can almost imagine Eccleston and Bakula chewing the scenery together.

 

[Idran]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

You've missed the Legion of Superheroes/Star Trek, Planet of the Apes/Star Trek, and Green Lantern/Star Trek crossovers that either have been or will be put out, I take it?

 

[Disco]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

You've missed the Legion of Superheroes/Star Trek, Planet of the Apes/Star Trek, and Green Lantern/Star Trek crossovers that either have been or will be put out, I take it?

Wow.

 

[zarkon]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

Good thing there totally wasn't an eight issue doctor who - st:tng/tos crossover two years ago then

 

[Leto_II]

OH F**KING DAMMIT, this would've been freaking awesome. My past-self especially would've killed to have something like this back when DS9 was still on the air.

That would have been quite the accomplishment, since the Eleventh Doctor and Clara weren't created until 11 and 13 years after DS9 went off the air, respectively...

I know, I just meant more in terms of a Doctor Who/DS9 crossover in general there, not the specific Doctor and Companion. The overall plot would've been interesting, no matter which Doctor was used (the direct tie-in to Assimilation² notwithstanding).

 

[Idran]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

You've missed the Legion of Superheroes/Star Trek, Planet of the Apes/Star Trek, and Green Lantern/Star Trek crossovers that either have been or will be put out, I take it?

Wow.

Even better: the recent Planet of the Apes one that just wrapped up was called The Primate Directive.

Depending on your outlook, that title should either help redeem it in your eyes or make it even worse.

But yeah, here are the others:

* LoSH
* Green Lantern (coming out this July)
* The Doctor Who crossover zarkon mentioned that I'd forgotten about; a Borg/Cybermen teamup.

 

[Stevil2001]

Well, this probably would have been better than Assimilation; it sounds like stuff might have actually happened.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Hmm. I rather enjoyed a certain Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover.

And I seem to recall that in some Diane Duane novel, there was a cameo appearance by what appeared to be an old Dr. Who video.

Now, of course, if somebody else known only as "The Doctor" were to display a large "H" on his forehead, to indicate that he's a hologram, then we'd have a crossover with yet another franchise.

 

[Skellington]

The X-Men Star Trek crossover was bad enough. A Star Trek Doctor Who crossover would have been wrong.

Good thing there totally wasn't an eight issue doctor who - st:tng/tos crossover two years ago then

- or a Trek Through Time.

https://vimeo.com/71223114

 

[Allyn Gibson]

And I seem to recall that in some Diane Duane novel, there was a cameo appearance by what appeared to be an old Dr. Who video.

My Enemy, My Ally.

 

[trampledamage]

I remember that scene!

 

[Christopher]

Cute, but a little too cluttered, what with Section 31 and Archer's Enterprise showing up on top of everything else. And teaming up the Sontarans and the Jem'Hadar is a bit too much like teaming up the Cybermen and the Borg -- putting together the two enemy races that have the most in common. Wouldn't it be more interesting to put together a Who race and a Trek race that would contrast sharply with each other?

Even better: the recent Planet of the Apes one that just wrapped up was called The Primate Directive.

Depending on your outlook, that title should either help redeem it in your eyes or make it even worse.

Given its plot (the Klingons providing arms to one side in a local conflict), I still say it should've been called A Primate Little War.

And I seem to recall that in some Diane Duane novel, there was a cameo appearance by what appeared to be an old Dr. Who video.

Yes -- Uhura and Lt. Freeman were converting a Tom Baker episode to 3D for holoprojection. Which is not only so wrong -- colorization and pan-and-scan are bad enough -- but the scene described in the book (the Fourth Doctor stepping out of the TARDIS and asking "Pardon me, but is this Heathrow?") doesn't actually exist. When I started watching Doctor Who and recognized the character depicted in that novel scene, I paid close attention, waiting for when that scene finally showed up in the series, and it never did.

 

[DS9forever]

Section 31 makes sense to me. I think having the story set during the Dominion War would be problematic as the wormhole was closed by the Prophets after "Sacrifice of Angels" and they continued to stop ships from entering (mentioned in "The Reckoning").