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.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 年前

      Imagine Browder and Black being John and Aeryn but pretending they have no idea who those characters are while playing them perfectly.

  • Kranerian@kbin.social
    10·
    1 年前

    David Tennant would make a great anything, but it’d be especially cool to see him as a villain again.

    • Ni@kbin.social
      3·
      1 年前

      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

  • ericskiff@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 年前

    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.

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
    9·
    1 年前

    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.

  • T156@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 年前

    I’d like to see Dame Maggie Smith as an Admiral. She’d probably be fantastic at it.

    • dandb@lemmy.ca
      5·
      1 年前

      I’ve just been rewatching Elementary and I think she’d be fantastic.

  • CCatMan@lemmy.one
    8·
    1 年前

    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 …

  • blevok@startrek.website
    6·
    1 年前

    Keith David. He was great in the outer limits and men at work, and i always wanted to see him captain a starfleet ship.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 年前

      I mean he’s Admiral Anderson in what’s considered the best “not star trek” star trek videogame of all time. Close enough for me.

    • Xariphon@kbin.social
      2·
      1 年前

      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.

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
    6·
    1 年前

    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.