# Imagine the possibilities of a Doctor Who / Star Trek movie! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288 "2017-07-14T23:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/1 "2017-07-14T23:01:38Z")
Let’s see how far we can develop this story. 😃 Combining the Doctor Who and Trek universes The Doctor needs help (as usual). Who better than the Star Ship Enterprise and her crew? I’m thinking the Doctor would need help against the Borg. They want Gallifreyan technology. The Borg plan to travel through time assimilating everyone. The Doctor is horrified. The Doctor bravely plans to destroy to the TARDIS and die with it. His brave companion exclaims “there must be another way!”. The Enterprise appears from a Time Warp and hovers never the TARDIS. Which crew? What would be a great story worthy of a movie? Which Doctor could fight The Borg? What happens next? I’ll start. Well, Hello! I’m The Doctor! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/2 "2017-07-14T23:17:46Z")
There could be an interesting back story. Why did the Enterprise appear? Perhaps a temporal anomaly developed because the Borg are using Gallifreyan technology. The Doctor had failed in preventing them from acquiring it. The Enterprise must travel through time to assist The Doctor, defeat The Borg, and save The Federation. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/3 "2017-07-15T00:42:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > What happens next? > > I’ll start. > > Well, Hello! I’m The Doctor! “Yes, we’ve met before, Gary.” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/4 "2017-07-15T01:31:37Z")
I would love to see the Capaldi Doctor dressing down Vulcans for being so smugly superior to Humans when they’re just more idiots to him. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/5 "2017-07-15T02:45:17Z")
Borg are just Cybermen who watched too much Hellraiser anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/6 "2017-07-15T02:57:35Z")
[Don’t need to imagine it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation/Doctor_Who:_Assimilation2) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/7 "2017-07-15T07:52:56Z")
I didn’t know it had already been done. I guess any Borg story has been done. Years ago we used to do fan fiction on Usenet. Lot of people contributing ideas. Thought it might be fun here ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/8 "2017-07-15T22:53:44Z")
Of course, we’d need real-life time travel to make it happen, but I’d love to see James Doohan’s Scotty interacting with Capaldi’s Doctor. For whatever reason, I feel like those two would get on quite well. (I had a whole paragraph about how the\* Trek _and_ Who\* universes would not mesh well IMO, but then I decided not to thread-shit. It’s a fun idea.:D) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/9 "2017-07-15T23:12:10Z")
I think a cross over movie would be a huge success. They’d have the budget to unite possibly Steven Moffat, Russell T Davies, and Rick Berman to write a great script. Berman was the force behind DS9 and some of TNG. I’m surprised it hasn’t already been done. The Doctor can travel anywhere. I’m not sure if the Enterprise could reach his universe. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/10 "2017-07-15T23:30:31Z")
[https://fanlore.org/wiki/The\_Doctor\_and\_the\_Enterprise](https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Doctor_and_the_Enterprise) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/11 "2017-07-16T16:12:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ll start. > > Well, Hello! I’m The Doctor! I’m a doctor, dammit, not a mechanic! ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/12 "2017-07-16T18:27:37Z")
You could have a funny scene with Voyager’s ‘The Doctor’ and Doctor Who’s ‘The Doctor’. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Panthan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Panthan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panthan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/13 "2017-07-21T00:28:43Z")
The Doctor could visit the events of the DS9 episode Trials and Tribble-ations. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/14 "2017-07-21T00:33:23Z")
Who needs a holodeck when you have a TARDIS? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/15 "2017-07-21T00:36:17Z")
I feel like it would basically be an episode of TNG with Q, but where Q has been forced to be good and many of his powers stripped down. John de Lancie would make a good Doctor, if he was British. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/16 "2017-07-21T12:25:10Z")
In my opinion, it’s more likely that the Enterprise would need the Doctor’s help than the other way around. OTOH, you could have an interesting story if they met and the Doctor was violating the Prime Directive, as far as the crew was concerned. Or if they were somehow violating a fixed point as far as he was concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-the-possibilities-of-a-doctor-who-star-trek-movie/791288/17 "2017-07-22T21:48:57Z")
I bet this could be a great movie if they got the right writers. Although I suspect that Gary would muck things up. Like bring Picard a rose instead of the blue pin-striped socks that he had asked for and then Picard would be all like, “Gary. (Silent harumph) What the fuck mate?” And Gary would be all like, “But I thought you wanted tea?” And Picard would be all like, “Gary, mmmkay Gary! Just go over there.” And then Gary goes and stands in the corner because they don’t keep chairs in the corner in the future and then Doctor Who shambles over and is all like, “Gary, you know what I like?” And Gary stupidface-ily is like, “Wha?” And then the Doctor is like, “I like pudding.”