Star Trek Crossovers With Other Franchises

[The Overlord]

There have been crossovers with Star Trek and other franchises in the past (mainly in comic books).

What were the best crossovers? What were the worst crossovers? What crossovers would you like to see in the future?

It seems like there have been quite a few crossovers between Star Trek and super heroes in the past (Green Lantern, X-Men, etc) and I'm not sure I like these very much. I like super hero comics and I think there is a lot of overlap between super hero fans and Star Trek fans, but these seem like 2 great things that just don't go together. Super heroes are far more fantastical and over the top then Star Trek, Star Trek often seems a bit more grounded then a lot of the super heroes that they end up crossing over with, I mean the science of something like Green Lantern doesn't make sense, it as well be magic. Green Lantern can be a lot of fun and exciting, but it doesn't mix well with Star Trek.

The crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek seem like a better fit, they seem like franchises that are more in the same wheel house, then Star Trek and Marvel or DC.

I think the crossover everyone wants to see, is Star Trek and Star Wars, that would be a real crowd pleaser and I think it could work well.

 

[Phoenix219]

Thats rather ironic, considering that GL was inspired partially by Lensmen, which was hard sci fi at the time, if I have my trivia correct....

So Trek doesn't have any godlike alien magic powers? Is a GL ring that different then Trelane's mirror?

I don't think anyone actually wants to see Trek vs Wars. It would be trollbait of the highest order.

Every time I watch Dark Matter, I wonder if the underbelly of the Federation is anything like that... Not too many current sci fi shows could crossover with Trek, though...

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yeah, just imagine if Green Lantern, say, created a giant green hand to hold the Enterprise...how silly would that be?

 

[USS Triumphant]

The very best had to be the Webster / TNG crossover.

I have had all sorts of random ideas for crossovers. A few:

1. It turns out that Dr. Soong's work was based on older research from an obscure American contract firm called the Knight Foundation - which in turn was based on alien technology brought along when the survivors of 12 long lost Preserver human colonies arrived on Earth in 1980. Now Data and his self-described "uncles" KITT and KARR must work together to stop an invasion of Borgified Cylons on space motorcycles.

2. A-Plot: Gayle Gergich and all of the beautiful long-lived progeny from her union with the human man she fell in love with have lived on Earth in secret since the late 20th century. They've been hidden in plain sight thanks to a secret directive put in place by President Nope and followed by her successors ever since. But events on her homeworld mean that now she and her children must travel there aboard the Enterprise - and someone doesn't want her to make it there alive. B-Plot: Geordi, Wesley, Data, and Barclay discover as an aside to learning about Gergich that President Nope's husband was best known for inventing a game called Cones of Dunshire - which they decide to play a game of the 7th edition of, on the holodeck.

3. After an accident near Utopia Planetia with an experiment designed to enhance the ship's engines, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise find themselves in a strange parallel universe, limping along with a very damaged dilithium crystal that could go at any second. They manage to make it to the nearest source of dilithium - the parallel Earth - but aren't prepared at all for the madness that ensues when they install the crystal they recover from the surface. Guest-starring Steven Universe, Connie, and the Crystal Gems.

 

[Phoenix219]

Never seen Steven Universe or Parks and Rec, so most of these go right over my head, but the Knight Rider one was spot on. I'm guessing that is a touch of Battlestar at the end?

I think Heroes or Fringe would make for fun crossover partners, not just with the subject matter but the actors involved. I would have loved to have seen Galaxy Quest with Shatner playing Shatner, too.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I'm guessing that is a touch of Battlestar at the end?

Yes. Specifically, the bad touch that was Galactica 1980.

 

[Phoenix219]

Yes. Specifically, the bad touch that was Galactica 1980.

I have both classic series downloaded, but I haven't started either one yet. 1980 is that bad? I read that the original gimmick was to have been a time travel show, but it was retooled at network insistance. The time travel gimmick was saved and later became Quantum Leap.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I blissfully don't remember much about it save that even as a child I thought it was hideously stupid, and that it seemed like an attempt to turn BSG into something that could compete or play off of the popularity of C.H.i.P.s. rather than showing the actual world-shaking events that would occur if both cousins of humanity AND their spacefaring nemeses arrived at Earth. To be fair, BSG started to kind of come off of the rails during the last part of its own run, so I guess it isn't surprising that the sequel was bent.

I've never heard that about Quantum Leap, but if true, that's scary, because QL was actually a quality show most of the time. And obviously, there's an easy Sam Beckett / Jonathan Archer, Temporal Cold War / Evil Leaper crossover almost begging to be done, there, as well.

 

[The Old Mixer]

1980 is that bad?

No, it was far worse.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I think I've posted this before in a similar thread. Voyager finds a strange ring shaped device in the Delta Quadrant (hint: it's a Stargate). They used it to send the crew home to the gate that was in Antarctica. Because in the version I'm imagining, the one in Egypt was not left on Earth. Or they could rotate crew back and forth from the Alpha Quadrant. Otherwise they would have to self destruct the ship so it wouldn't fall into the hands of just anyone. The ship it's self wouldn't fit through the gate.

 

[Phoenix219]

Both Larson and the network felt the show needed some major change of focus to re-launch it as a spin-off, and Larson and Donald P. Bellisario decided to set the new series five years after "The Hand of God", the final episode of the original series. This would allow them to weed out many supporting characters who were now considered superfluous - Colonel Tigh, Athena, Cassiopeia, Boxey, etc. - which would bring down production costs. The only major characters to return from the original series would be Commander Adama, Colonel Boomer (replacing Tigh), Apollo, Starbuck and Count Baltar. Baltar was to have somehow made atonement for betraying the Colonies to the Cylons, and was now the President of the Council of Twelve.

Upon discovering a 'present day' Earth completely unable to defend itself from the Cylons, Adama decided to just head off into deep space to lead the Cylons away from the planet, but Baltar suggested using time travel technology to alter Earth's history so its technology would develop more rapidly up to a Colonial level. The Council votes this suggestion down, so Baltar steals a ship capable of time travel and heads into Earth's past to carry out his plan anyway. After some deliberation, Starbuck and Apollo are sent after him to bring him back or at least undo his changes to history. Episodes would feature a new "Time Mission" every week, generally with Apollo at some different time in the past, and Starbuck flying back and forth between "Now" and "Then" to give information and support to Apollo. ABC approved this pitch, and gave the go-ahead to develop a pilot for the series.

However, Dirk Benedict (Starbuck in the original series) was apparently unavailable at the time of filming. Richard Hatch (Apollo in the original series) apparently was sent a script for Galactica 1980, but turned it down since he wasn't sure what his part in the series would be now that all the characters had changed.[1] It was then decided the series would take place thirty years after the end of the original series, and that Boxey would be renamed Troy and take Apollo's role, while a character named Lt. Dillon would take over the Starbuck part. President Baltar was written out entirely, and Commander Xavier or Doctor Xavier was created to take up his role as the resident bad guy. The premise of setting the series thirty years after the original series created a plot hole in that the original series ended with a video transmission being picked up by the Galactica from the Apollo moon landing, meaning that the original series would have to have taken place sometime after 1969 by Earth's calendar. A thirty-year journey would mean that the Colonial Fleet could not have possibly reached Earth until the turn of the 21st Century rather than in 1980.

After the pilot was completed, the network was unhappy with the time travel aspects of the story, which was intended to be an ongoing premise in each episode as the Colonials chased Xavier through different periods in Earth's history. They agreed to pick up the series only if the time travel element was dropped. Larson and Bellisario reluctantly agreed, and the series instead became focused on Troy's and Dillon's attempts to protect some colonial children on Earth. Bellisario later re-tooled the original time travel concept and re-used it as the basis of the considerably more successful Quantum Leap.

 

[Greg Cox]

I enjoyed the STAR TREK/PLANET OF THE APES crossover, which gets bonus points for its inspired title:

"The Primate Directive."

As for hypothetical crossovers, maybe STAR TREK meets LOGAN'S RUN?

Kirk and his landing party end up trapped on an alternate Earth where Sandmen hunt Runners who have passed their age limit . ...

 

[RandyS]

I've always wanted to see (or read) a crossover where the Enterprise (Kirk) is heading for R&R at a starbase and finds itself at Babylon 5 instead. For the rest of the story Kirk and Sheridan have to figure out which crew crossed to whose universe (simple enough since the Enterprise is mobile and B5 is not, plus, all they'd have to do is call Earth and if Clark answers, they know it's Kirk and Spock in the wrong universe), and how to get them back.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Info about QL/Galactica 1980

Thank goodness - the original premise sounds like a MESS. I'm much happier to be sharing my timeline with QL.

 

[Phoenix219]

Thank goodness - the original premise sounds like a MESS. I'm much happier to be sharing my timeline with QL.

It seems like they had the basics down way back then, though... an evil leaper who's wrongs they had to set right; a guy on time traveling missions, with his partner going back and forth from the future with info.... its an interesting what if, anyways.

 

[Astra]

I liked the recent two-part comic where TOS and the Kelvin timeline crossed over. There was a bit of mix and matching and it was great fun:

Part 1: http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2016/07/connection-part-1-preview.html

Part 2: http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2016/08/comic-previews-connection-part-2-and.html

 

[Ethros]

Part 2: http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2016/08/comic-previews-connection-part-2-and.html

That wraparound cover of all the six casts is excellent, haven't seen that before.

Could nuBSG take place in the Trek timeline anyway?
Spoiler for the nuBSG finale

Spoiler

Seen as it was all 150,000 years ago anyway. I suppose they never ran into any aliens but who's to say they weren't around. And Starfleet just never figured out Jump technology