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A weird idea about Star Trek canon

Well, Team Knight Rider had the character Jackson Roykirk from TOS "The Changeling" in an episode -- so Trek and Team Knight Rider are in the same universe already! :bolian:
 
Oh, and Webster met Worf and beamed aboard the E-D, so Webster and Trek are also in the same universe.

I also like to think of T.J. Hooker as the daydreams of a desk-bound, recently promoted Admiral Kirk.
 
There is a ton of cross-over fiction at fanfiction.net. At the United Trek website one of the authors, Gibraltar, actually worked The Master into a story in his USS Gibraltar series quite efficiently and with out turning it into a farce. It's been done over and over. One of the best cross-overs I've ever read was a Transformers/ST story on the fan fic thread. I believe it is also posted at United Trek. Absolutely brilliant and plausible tale. And I am not even a Transformers fan. It blew that Planet X dreck out of the water.

here's a link to Star Trek:Babylon 5
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=65877

and another to Stargate:First Contact
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=49483

both are clever re-writings of the two concepts that the author blends into a wholly new story.
 
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Some other franchise being retroactively inserted into Trek Canon is a horrible idea. However, I wouldn't mind seeing a Trek/DW crossover. The best way to make it happen is for the TARDIS to get pulled off course and carried over to Trek's dimension. How the Doctor got there and why is something I'll leave to the screenwritier's imagination.

Also, I'd prefer that the Doctor encounter Picard's crew. I don't know why, I just instinctively feel that they would work well together.
There is a ton of Star Trek/Who crossover fanfic. Most of what I've read is actually not too bad. I've had my own crossover brewing in my mind for awhile. In one of the time travel-themed Trek novels (Ishmael, I think), one of the Starfleet characters makes reference to an elusive race of time-traveling aliens from the "constellation of Kasterborous." That is where the Doctor has always said Gallifrey is located.

I know. I want an actual canon crossover between these two. It doesn't have to be a whole series. A film with theatrical release or a serial on the Doctor Who TV Show would be fine with me.

Patrick Stewart is on record as a DW fan so, it might be possible to get him to do this project. Just imagine Patrick Stewart and David Tennant in the same film. There would be enough geeky awesomeness with a British flavor to make one's head explode.

You know, speaking of Alien, I think it would be absolutely fascinating to see how Kirk or Picard and their crews would deal with it if a landing party/away team beamed down to a planet and encountered one of the xenomorphs.

Of course, I suppose one phaser set to disintegrate could solve the whole problem, but what unique dynamics would we see? Would Spock object to killing this lifeform that they don't understand? Would Troi be able to sense something from it to give us a better idea of its motivations? How would the alien cope with a Klingon?

Interesting possibilities...

That would make for a cool story... especially if the landing party was stuck on the planet for some reason and unable to escape.
 
Besides, it wouldn't work according to Quantum Leap canon. Sam could only leap into people who existed within his own lifetime. That's why he never leaped into some medieval crusader or into the far future.

Sam can leap beyond his own lifetime, forward or backward, provided it's into the life (NOT the body - Sam keeps his own body when leaping) of a blood relative. That's how he ended up in the Civil War in that one episode, because I believe the 'leapee' was Sam's great grandfather.

As for the future:
In one of the alternate endings for the final episode, Sam DOES leap into the future. Of course by then, the rules of leaping have apparently changed anyway.
 
Besides, it wouldn't work according to Quantum Leap canon. Sam could only leap into people who existed within his own lifetime. That's why he never leaped into some medieval crusader or into the far future.

Sam can leap beyond his own lifetime, forward or backward, provided it's into the life (NOT the body - Sam keeps his own body when leaping) of a blood relative. That's how he ended up in the Civil War in that one episode, because I believe the 'leapee' was Sam's great grandfather.

As for the future:
In one of the alternate endings for the final episode, Sam DOES leap into the future. Of course by then, the rules of leaping have apparently changed anyway.
I always believed this limitation was due to budget restraints as it made no real sense otherwise.
 
Although The Doctor And The Enterprise simply set both shows in parallel realities, with some major differences between them. For example:

The Doctor points out that in his universe, Vulcan was wiped out in civil war. Conversely, Spock observes that Gallifrey does not even exist in *his* universe because its star went supernova and destroyed every planet in the system.

And other supposed links, such as TKR/Trek, Webster/Trek, etc. don't actually have to exist. John Munch shows up in about seven or eight different TV series, but some of those cannot exist together (such as X-Files supposedly sharing a universe with Law & Order/Homicide:Life on the Street. This can't happen, since in an early H:LOTS episode, X-Files is mentioned as a fictional show).
 
We could always go for a Star Trek Stargate crossover. I would love to see a fight between a Klingon and a Jaffa. Better yet, a Klingon possessed by a Goa'uld. The potential is awe-inspiringly awesome.
 
Oh, and Webster met Worf and beamed aboard the E-D, so Webster and Trek are also in the same universe.

I also like to think of T.J. Hooker as the daydreams of a desk-bound, recently promoted Admiral Kirk.
Then how do you account for Denny Crane in Boston Legal? :wtf:

Some other franchise being retroactively inserted into Trek Canon is a horrible idea. However, I wouldn't mind seeing a Trek/DW crossover. The best way to make it happen is for the TARDIS to get pulled off course and carried over to Trek's dimension. How the Doctor got there and why is something I'll leave to the screenwritier's imagination.

Also, I'd prefer that the Doctor encounter Picard's crew. I don't know why, I just instinctively feel that they would work well together.
There is a ton of Star Trek/Who crossover fanfic. Most of what I've read is actually not too bad. I've had my own crossover brewing in my mind for awhile. In one of the time travel-themed Trek novels (Ishmael, I think), one of the Starfleet characters makes reference to an elusive race of time-traveling aliens from the "constellation of Kasterborous." That is where the Doctor has always said Gallifrey is located.
I know. I want an actual canon crossover between these two. It doesn't have to be a whole series. A film with theatrical release or a serial on the Doctor Who TV Show would be fine with me.

Patrick Stewart is on record as a DW fan so, it might be possible to get him to do this project. Just imagine Patrick Stewart and David Tennant in the same film. There would be enough geeky awesomeness with a British flavor to make one's head explode.
:angryrazz:

Nope. Gotta be Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann, or Christopher Eccleston. And yes, I am aware that Tom Baker is elderly and grey-haired now, and much heavier than he used to be. Doesn't matter. They aged him in the Season 18 story "The Leisure Hive" and turned him into a cactus in "Meglos." Him looking like the character he plays in Monarch of the Glen wouldn't be a problem at all, if the storyline came up with a plausible reason.

One of the problems with a DW crossover is that it has been established several times that Star Trek is a TV show in the DW universe:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek
Actually, DOCTOR WHO is a TV show in the DW universe! :lol: If you look carefully in one particular scene in the Sylvester McCoy Dalek story, where the Doctor and Ace go back to 1963, there is a quick bit where the very first Who story, "An Unearthly Child", is introduced on TV... :p
 
Besides, it wouldn't work according to Quantum Leap canon. Sam could only leap into people who existed within his own lifetime. That's why he never leaped into some medieval crusader or into the far future.

Sam can leap beyond his own lifetime, forward or backward, provided it's into the life (NOT the body - Sam keeps his own body when leaping) of a blood relative. That's how he ended up in the Civil War in that one episode, because I believe the 'leapee' was Sam's great grandfather.

As for the future:
In one of the alternate endings for the final episode, Sam DOES leap into the future. Of course by then, the rules of leaping have apparently changed anyway.
I always believed this limitation was due to budget restraints as it made no real sense otherwise.

Ok, now someone correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't Sam still leap into the bodies of several star trek characters, as through thier own time travel they lived during sam's lifetime? Even if the travel was limited to those experiences, shouldn't it be possible, or would the fact that they were from another time mess wih it?

I assume the answer involves technobabble:lol:

As for the restriction to Sam's own lifetime, I think there were reasons beyond budget, although that is a big one. Nostalgia was a big selling point for the show, so they wanted to keep it to recent American history that the audience would have lived through or at least be very familiar with.
 
If you look at a lot of the little sight gags through 24th-Century Trek, it's already happened.

Like the ship in Up The Long Ladder having been "on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan" when it disappeared.
 
We could always go for a Star Trek Stargate crossover. I would love to see a fight between a Klingon and a Jaffa. Better yet, a Klingon possessed by a Goa'uld. The potential is awe-inspiringly awesome.
If you look back to my first post I included a link to Stargate: First Contact, which is the movie First Contact blended with the movie Stargate.
 
And other supposed links, such as TKR/Trek, Webster/Trek, etc. don't actually have to exist. John Munch shows up in about seven or eight different TV series, but some of those cannot exist together (such as X-Files supposedly sharing a universe with Law & Order/Homicide:Life on the Street. This can't happen, since in an early H:LOTS episode, X-Files is mentioned as a fictional show).

Well, in Millennium in one episode we so Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny filming an X-Files episode once. Yet later on in The X-Files we find Millennium's Frank Black in somewhat of a belated closure of the Millennium series.

So that's not specifically a limitation of it happen, you'll just have to forget the inconvenient contradiction.
 
In the TV series "Cybill", we saw Cybill Shepherd's character dressed as a lizard alien, playing opposite a very sleazy Jonathan Frakes as Riker ("Starting on the Wrong Foot"). Frakes' wife, Genie Francis would not have approved.

Might have been a Mirror Universe Frakes, since we never saw the full TNG episode they were working on.
 
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