Butting heads or shaking hands?

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

DS9's Nana Visitor Pitches An Explosive Star Trek Crossover With Captain Sisko

Is DS9 big enough for these two Star Trek icons?

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...to bring into the show… I would love to work with Kate Mulgrew. She has the whole Captain command aura and presence about her, and that would be a real upheaval to the show. How would that work out? I see sparks all over the place, and with Captain Sisko. Not sure they’d get along. Those are two alphas. I think that would be really interesting.

So which two Trek characters would you like to have seen meet up? Would they argue or cooperate?

 

[FredH]

Although they actually co-starred together on Deep Space Nine, I always thought it would have been interesting to have Kira and Worf double-teaming, which to my recollection they never did. (Feel free to correct me, but there’s no particular Kira/Worf dynamic established, and I’d have liked to see how one played out — not romantically or anything, but given their respective but differing martial backgrounds.)

 

[fireproof78]

Ezri Dax and B'elanna Torres.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Same show, different universes -- Chief Miles O'Brien and Captain "Smiley" O'Brien. You can never have too much Colm Meaney.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

DS9 writers loved pairing Garak with main characters, forcing them to question and defend their values. The meeting that should take place on screen: Garak and Picard.

 

[Greg Cox]

DS9 writers loved pairing Garak with main characters, forcing them to question and defend their values. The meeting that should take place on screen: Garak and Picard.

See a recent TNG novel, Pliable Truths by Dayton Ward, which features just this.

Indeed, Picard and Garak are both on the cover.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Pliable-Truths/Dayton-Ward/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation/9781668046418

 

[Owain Taggart]

Maybe more of an unlikely pairing, but Data and Odo. Data has liked roleplaying as Sherlock Holmes, therefore it would be fun to see them as a detective duo.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Add Picard to that mix. Imagine Dixon Hill, Sherlock Holmes, and Mike Hammer all working together as a team.

 

[tim0122]

Scotty meeting O'Brien. They would have the ultimate engineering geek out.

Odo meeting Adam from Way to Eden. Odo would've locked him up for life within five seconds.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Add Picard to that mix. Imagine Dixon Hill, Sherlock Holmes, and Mike Hammer all working together as a team.

I was thinking more on-station investigations rather than holodeck scenarios.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Well, applying their respective mindsets/investigating styles to a real investigation.

 

[Oddish]

Data and Harry Kim, commiserating about getting screwed out of well-deserved promotions.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

McCoy and Dax

 

[Greg Cox]

Picard and Gary Seven, since they have diametrically different views regarding the Prime Directive.

Picard: "We must not interfere with the natural development of less advanced species."

Seven: "That's kinda my job description."

 

[Turtletrekker]

Scotty meeting O'Brien. They would have the ultimate engineering geek out.

Technically, even though Colm Meaney wasn't in Relics, dialogue indicates that it was O'Brien that beamed Scotty and Geordi off of the Jenolin, and they were both in the lineup together being dressed down by Kirk in Trials and Tribblations, with only Chekov standing between them.

ETA: I just realized that that means even though Colm Meaney never shared any scenes with James Doohan, O'Brien and Scotty were in the same room together on two separate occasions. Huh. There's a fun piece of Star Trek trivia for you.

 

[Turtletrekker]

McCoy and Dax

"He had the hands of a surgeon."

 

[Oddish]

"He had the hands of a surgeon."

Given that she still remembers him 100+ years and four host changes later, it's a safe assumption that he made... quite an impression.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

"He had the hands of a surgeon."

TV-MA?

 

[Oddish]

That wasn't even DS9's raciest bit. I distinctly remember Odo's security report in "Crossfire", concerning two station residents with a really... tempestuous relationship.

 

[Greg Cox]

"He had the hands of a surgeon."

There's almost certainly many steamy fanfics about that encounter!