Hey, the X-Men worked with Kirk and Spock once. “Dr. McCoy?” “Yes?” “Yes?” And there was the epic Starjammer series against the Brood.
Hm. Nobody else taking an Anime crew? The pickings are much larger there. For example:
Shuttle Pilot 1: Max Sterling. Wash is only second best.
Hm. Maybe I should make Mihoshi the pilot. She’s darn good… and if you don’t believe that, watch her dodge Dr. Clay’s rapid fire in a medium sized spaceship.
When was this? (The Star Trek thing, not the Brood thing…I know about that.)
Kirk would never serve under another captain’s command, though.
Especially not an upstart like Mal.
A young enough Kirk would. Get him early. This is not military, remember. Give him enough freedom of action and I could see a private enterprise (sorry!) Kirk excel at trade missions.
Do we get any clues as to who these people are? I think I recognize some of the names, but I’m not sure - the only “Princess Diana” I’ve heard of never had any outer space experience, unless you count being married to someone who acts like he comes from another planet …
Diplomat/Wheeler/Dealer: Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Accept no substitutes.
Pilot: Wash. Ending battle of Serenity displayed better piloting than I’ve ever seen in a live action film.
Navigator: Traveler Westley Crusher
Security (on ship): Anakin Skywalker. He’s got a dark side and will lead to many plot points.
Security/Corporate Espionage: Garabaldi. A simulation of him based on his records overthrew a galactic empire. I want the real thing on my side.
Shields/Defensive/Sensors: Kim, Sammy and Vanessa from Robotech
Ship’s Weapons: Luke Skywalker. He can fire a missile at 500m/s and make it take a right angle turn into a port no bigger than a womp rat. I want that guy manning the phaser array.
Medical: No actual operator, I just want that healing coffin from the film Stargate. We’ll call it the Medi-gus.
Bulk Loader Operator: Ripley. Just in case we get a nasty alien infestation.
Engineer: Hugh the borg. He can just assimilate sections of the ship to repair them.
Captain: Malcom Reynolds. I was tempted to chose Sisko for his talents as a tactician, but since we’re working with a largely civilian crew I suspect that Reynolds would be laid back enough to run a tight, responsible ship without pissing anyone off more than the job requires.
First Officer: This was the hardest to decide, but I think I’ll go with Susan Ivanova: she’s thick-skinned, which will let her put up with Reynolds, and she’s incredibly anal, which will let her pick up any slack that Malcom’s looser command style leaves.
Helmsman: Seven of Nine. Defiant-style navigation systems will probably rely on proficiency more than split-second reflexes, and Seven has the calm, analytical mind needed to excel at the task, a dedication to duty that’ll keep her from getting bored, and via her borg implants an insane corpus of scientific knowledge she can pull out whenever they run into an anomaly.
Chief Enlisted Officer: Miles O’Brien all the way. He’s smart, savvy, responsible, and a drunk scotsman. What more could you ask for?
Head of Security: Michael Garibaldi, because you can’t go wrong with a lawful good security chief who mentally translates “black ops” as “white ops, only more efficient”. I’ll stock my pantry with synthale so he can indulge his raging alcoholism without getting any of his screwup on my starship. 
Chief Engineer: The Traveler. If this is my starship I’d like to emphasize innovation over reliability, and you just can’t beat having your engine run by a guy who can alter warp fields with his mind.
Assistants to the chief engineer: B’Elanna Torres and Kaylee Frye. Torres has that perfectionist streak to keep the engine room working smoothly and the freakish strength to keep the crew in line, and Kaylee’s eccentric genius will probably catch any mistakes that the Traveler or B’Elanna make.
Chief Medical Officer: Simon Tam. He’s a brilliant surgeon, flexible enough to do what needs to be done to help people, and anal retentive enough to be an effective administrator and manager. Plus, he comes with a sister-shaped accessory that is essential to ship’s operations.
Ship’s Mascot: River Tam. Cute and personable enough to keep morale up, crazy and scary enough to keep the roughs in line, and always ready to be foolishly ignored by the bad guys until it’s too late.
Science team: Rather than a single science officer, I would use a think tank staffed by Dr. Who, Lieutenant Barkley, Q, Scotty, River, and Seven (when she’s not at the helm). Scotty is very diplomatic, so he can also serve as the go-between and brief the senior staff on what the hell his people are up to.
Talia Winters: I don’t know what she’ll do, but I want her on my ship.
Princess Diana means Wonder Woman–who doesn’t make a damn bit of sense in the position named. Not that she couldn’t do it–but seriously, how do you NOT make her away team leader?
He’s crewing out from a popular sci-fi/ Harem comedy Anime called Tenchi Muyo. While he has crewed his ship out with all the cute girls, in fairness they are all absolutely top notch in their fields.
Funny and worth watching, just make certain you get the uncut versions.
Wonder Woman is the best warrior in all the universes. We don’t need that in an away team… though she may be seconded to it. We need that on the bridge guiding the ship against pirates as a priority. We’ve got Mr. Anal and Ms. Loose Cannon for the away team… and while Ryoko may not have the strength of Wonder Woman, she does have her own special abilities.
Edit: Also, we’re not an exploration team, we’re traders. That’s why I wanted a straight man and a bent woman for negotiators. And multiple accountants. Including one capable of full on Xanatos Gambits.
Oh. Assistant to Mr. Prospector: Robert Drake, CPA.
Communications: Jean Grey.
Mihoshi might be a really bad idea for a pilot… but then again, as long as we don’t ask her to land anything, it should be safe.
Hm. Duh. Backup Pilot: Hal Jordan.
AI: Switching genres, Gay Deceiver.
Crew Members selected from:
Irrepressible Captain Tylor. Tenchi Muyo. Robotech. Martian Successor Nadesico. And the X-Men and Wonder Woman. And now, Number of the Beast…
Star Trek / X-Men. I think you’ll enjoy it.
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/646466.html
Wondy in Space:
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5106817.html
Why I want Wondy and not Worf.
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/4152816.html
I suppose I should also point out that there’s an even chance my ship could take Omi’s. Even if Q was on duty.
Kang and Kodos should be part of any planetary away team.
Wait, which Defiant are we talking about? The one I remember from Deep Space Nine was tiny. (I think it was meant to have a crew of less than six.)
Since this is a merchant ship, I want a Ferengi, preferably Quark, along for commercial negotiations.
Since I’m not stupid enough to trust a Ferengi with my money, after every negotiation, Quark will report to my Security Chief, the PsiCop Bester from B5, for a memory audit.
A couple more I forgot;
Ship’s Nee’r-Do-Well; Bender “Bending” Rodriguez
Ship’s A.I. Bob from Tripping the Rift, or Post-Head-Swap Holly
Sanitation and general maintenance; Kryten
And finally, any and all tactical plans must be screened by Mike Nelson, Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, and Joel Hodgson, if they can’t find holes/flaws/nitpicky little issues with the plan, then the plan can be implemented
Captain: Jack Sparrow
First Mate: Miss Piggy
Away Team Leader: Animal
Red-Shirted Security Guy: Jon-Luc Picard
Captain: Mal Reynolds.
First Mate: Ianto Jones.
Weapons Officer: Tony Stark.
Chief Engineer: Kaylee Frye.
Morale Officer: Neelix! (after being cudgeled with big sticks) Okay, okay, Hiro Nakamura.
Medical Officer: Dr. Julian Bashir, teamed up with Dr. Gaius Baltar.
Security: Batman.
I’m telling you, we’re invincible!
XO, or Captain—Susan Ivanova. Because Ivanova is God.
Operations—Robby the Robot, formerly of Altair IV. Professional, courtious, no-nonsense…and none of the usual “issues” you have with more human droids (by all accounts, he doesn’t want to be human, considers himself genderless, and there’s no way he could be fully functional). And aside from the Asimov or logical paradox landmines he might encounter, he’s probably immune to a number of technological problems that AIs are prone to, owing to the superior primitiveness of his electro-mechanical brain.
Science Officer—Seven of Nine. To provide the alluring human frailties as noted above, combined with ruthless Cyberneticism. (Plus, y’know…)
Diplomatic/Commercial Relations Officer—Journeyman-Herald Alen (From Cyril Kornbluth’s That Share of Glory) Skilled and educated in interstellar customs, laws, and linguistics, member of the College and Order of Heralds—an organization dedicated to spreading utilitarian culture and Machiavellian wisdom throughout space. Also, like three other living human beings have ever heard of this story, so he probably hasn’t been taken 
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Orbital Shock Assault/Ship’s Bard—Spaceman Spiff. For those times and occasions when the ship needs a rather unsublte tactical approach (“Choked with righteous disgust, Spiff sets his Atom Blaster to 'frappé…”); or a simple, flashy distraction (“Zounds! The Intrepid Spaceman Spiff is going down again…!”); or simply a verbose, aggrandizing flavor to reports back to the home office—and make even the most mundane, fruitless routine or agonizing defeat seem like the stuff of epic poetry. Possible cons: will need rescuing on regular basis.
Maintainence/Information Services/Gunslinging—V.I.N.CENT. Comparable to R2, but with more firepower, and you don’t have to repeat his dialogue back to him. Also, less “lip,” more “stiff upper lip.”
MARDET—One section (roughly two platoons) Colonial Marines. Should be more than sufficient for internal security, guarding of special weapons (“ATOMICS!”), and landings.
Yeoman—J.M. Colt.
More, later, probably…
No book sources, right?
There goes Thrawn as my choice for Tactical Officer.
Actually a Defiant-class starship can have a crew of up to 50 members. You are likely thinking of the main command crew which is all you likely see on any given episode of DS9. Oh yeah, thanks for making me feel like a huge nerd. Now I am going back to deciding my crew.