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<\/p>\nThis week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/i>, “The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail,” had a special guest star.<\/p>\n
No, not Paul Wesley as James Tiberius Kirk.<\/p>\n
The special guest star was the TARDIS from Doctor Who<\/i>!<\/p>\n
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It appeared in some FX shots. I circled it in the screencap image above. Maybe at some point, maybe in a Doctor Who<\/i> novel by Una McCormack, we’ll get the Doctor’s side of this adventure.<\/p>\n
Star Trek<\/i> and Doctor Who<\/i> have crossed paths a number of times, from the crew watching Tom Baker episodes in Diane Duane’s My Enemy, My Ally<\/i> and Worf’s appearance in a Doctor Who Magazine<\/i> comic strip in the 90s to an unfortunately dire crossover comic<\/a> published by IDW (though it did produce a lovely lunchbox, which I have) and a recent video game, not to mention gobs and gobs of fanfic, some of which I’ve read<\/a>.<\/p>\n Star Trek<\/i> has been referred to a couple of times on Doctor Who<\/i> over the past twenty years, and I think this is the first time Star Trek<\/i> returned the favor.<\/p>\n And that’s cool.<\/p>\n Sometimes I hope that CBS will become a co-producer on Doctor Who<\/i>, depending on what happens with the Disney deal, because I have mad dreams of maybe treating Doctor Who<\/i> like a Star Trek<\/i> spin-off. A two-hour series premiere, the Doctor lands on a Federation starship or starbase, there’s wild shenanigans, and the Doctor goes off in a TARDIS. But, the Doctor leaves with a difference! There’s a new traveling companion aboard the TARDIS… and it’s a Starfleet officer! No twenty-first century Earth girl here. This is a character who’s already used to the universe being weird and dangerous, and the reaction to say, a Cyberman, would be more likely pulling a phaser than running away.<\/p>\n It would sort of be like Izzy Sinclair in the 90s comics; Izzy was a 20th-century sci-fi fan, so she was already familiar with all the usual Doctor Who<\/i> tropes through sci-fi, and she could hit the ground running with little explanation in a story. La’an of Strange New Worlds<\/i> would work well for this, not because Christina Chong has already been on Doctor Who<\/i> (thus keeping up the occasional tradition of new companion being a previous guest star) but because I think La’an’s attitude would fit the TARDIS… and deflate the Doctor a bit.<\/p>\n Beyond that, I would also like to see a Star Trek<\/i>-style Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off with a multi-racial crew in a starship, boldly going in the Whoniverse. Maybe during the 51st-century, the ship has a Draconian captain, that sort of thing. Doctor Who<\/i> travels through space and time, this series would have a fixed temporal setting and allow a more focused world-building than Doctor Who<\/i> is capable of, plus with an ensemble cast storytelling duties and development can be spread over more characters than Doctor Who<\/i> allows.<\/p>\n BBC? CBS? Those are my pitches. Why don’t your people talk to my people and we can make something happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “The Sehlat Who Ate His Tail,” had a special guest star. No, not Paul Wesley as James Tiberius Kirk. The special guest star was the TARDIS from Doctor Who! It appeared in some FX shots. I circled it in the screencap image above. Maybe at someContinue reading “There’s a TARDIS in My Star Trek!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[667,4082,5274,143,5276,4089,5275],"class_list":["post-34595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-bbc","tag-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who-magazine","tag-idw-publishing","tag-laan-noonien-singh","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}