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.
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.
Aubrey plaza, warrick Davies and Donald Glover are my favourite of your picks!
I LOVE the idea of William Jackson Harper as a First Officer. I want to see what he does with a confident character.
Shohreh Aghdashloo, the actress of Chrisjen Avasarala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2znSxzcLvvM
She was in Star Trek Beyond though.
She played a good admiral, I’d love to see her back.
And if Tom Paris needs sage advice from his grand mother, we shall get her, even if we have to pull her from a different universe!
I completely missed that
I don’t think I could pick a single actor, but having anyone from the SG1 series would have a very high chance of making me literally scream in excitement haha.
PAGING MICHAEL SHANKS
PAGING MICHAEL SHANKS
I could also see Lucy Liu as a no nonsense Captain.
I’ve just been rewatching Elementary and I think she’d be fantastic.
I want Brendon Frazier as a chief O’Brien style character. One that’s been through war and head seen things… Things in the transporter room… Yeah …
I never knew I wanted to see this.
David Tennant would make a great anything, but it’d be especially cool to see him as a villain again.
Perhaps as an even more sinister than usual member of the Tal Shiar.
Jeffrey Coombs hasn’t been in Lower Decks, Prodigy or SNW yet. He needs to get on that!
I want to see him play a Q. Squeeze all of the smarm of Brunt and all of the smug power-tripping of Weyoun into one character.
Conversely, imagine a Q with the energy of Herbert West.
Keith David. He was great in the outer limits and men at work, and i always wanted to see him captain a starfleet ship.
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.
I would love to see/have seen Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick get a scene together.
Me too, loved them as prof x and magneto (even if the films were a bit…) so it would be nice to see them together again
Christopher Judge
Indeed.
You get an updoot! And YOU get an updoot!
…as the ship’s counselor.
Hah! Searching images with text is nearly impossible, but I did see a Martok image about doing battle against depression.
CCH Pounder. She’s amazing in everything! I’d love to see Avery Brooks come back.
+1 for Avery Brooks! I so would love to see him back.
Second this. She’s always great.
Or maybe Glenn Howerton, if she’s not available.
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.
I second and third Nic Cage.
He would make a great Klingon!
Seth Meyers as a lower decker, in a “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” series of unfortunate events. Opposite Fred Armisen, who tells him “I told you so!” repeatedly.
Michael Ironside in his younger days. I would have loved to see him as a Trek captain in the style of his Starship Troopers character, ie a grizzled, take-no-prisoners leader, but would do anything for his people. Sort of a Lorca kind of captain, but Michael Ironside.
I could see him playing Jellico in another timeline.
