One actor you wish would do Trek
I know it’s been done to death all over the internet but not here yet! If you could choose any actor or actress to be in Star Trek who would you choose? I recently saw that Nic Cage said he was a Trekkie and I’d absolutely love it if he played an insane alien villain of some sort for an episode or two. Get him in star trek legacy as a crazy ferenghi or something.
Second this. She's always great.
He was in Lower Decks. Played an evil computer, Agimus.
Only a matter of time before he gets to Prodigy/SNW.
Lee Pace and Oscar Isaac. I'm picturing them in movies rather than series.
Keith David
Claudia Black
Jerry O'Connell needs to jump out of a portal, run past the screen and jump into another one. A confused moment later Michael Shanks and Ben Browder jump out the first portal and chase after O'Connell. Shortly after that Admiral Archer does the same thing only he gives them all the Vulcan salute before following the chase.
Nothing is said after, it just happens.
I know I've seen him in a million and one things both before and since, but to me he will always be the voice of Goliath.
Considering the rest of the cast of Gargoyles was a Star Trek reunion, it seems only fitting that he be in the franchise somewhere.
Or, hear me out, a Tellarite
And make him a major supporting character, Tellarites have had very little of their culture explored and I'd love to see how Jack would handle it
Paul Rudd, just because of how challenging it would be to put his face into Trek without being immensely distracting to the story.
Miley Cyrus would make a good Orion. Fight me.
Okay - some weirder takes here but hear me out. I’d love to see a science-vessel focused on anomaly of the week style episodic writing, with moral and ethical quandaries and personal growth and a search for “the meaning of it all” trumping action, adventure, and universe saving.
Accordingly, I’d want that science vessel to be home to a delightfully nerdy crew of pedants, malcontents and misfits, all seeking something outside of the boring federation life or more militaristic vessels.
The list of people that would be amazing to Star or guest:
Neil Patrick Harris as captain Felicia day as chief science officer. Aubrey Plaza on tactical, way too smart and capable for her own good (and sardonic style) William Jackson Harper (Chidi from The Good Place) as first officer Warwick Davis as chief engineer, with awesome fully custom/adaptive AR controls and a combo of old-man wit and crazy ideas that gets them in and out of jams
With guest turns from David Hyde Pierce (Niles from Frazier), Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Donald Glover, etc
Just go full nerd with it like discovery tried to, but without the constant intrigue and epic action. Let them be a family growing together and finding a place where they belong, puzzling through each new chapter together. TNG but for 2023 instead of 1988.
I like the idea of a show or even a few one-shots on more science-focused ship.
(This was ostensibly Discovery’s remit in season one, but the plot went quickly in other directions.)
One gets the sense that CBS/Paramount has given direction to avoid too much scientific focus outside of Prodigy, and especially technobabble, but it’s one of the very 90s era Star Trek things that I would like to see one of the new live action shows embrace.
An alternative would be a Starfleet Core of Engineers show focused on a specialized engineering ship along the line of the Relaunch Litverse series of stories/novellas/books. Those dealt with technological problem-solving in response to anomalies and disasters.
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