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.
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 …
Can he just constantly yell ‘fuck!’ like in doom patrol?
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
Giancarlo Esposito (actor who played Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad). He make a great charismatic leader. Imagine him as Admiral of Starfleet! 🙌
I’d like to see Dame Maggie Smith as an Admiral. She’d probably be fantastic at it.
Couldn’t agree more, she would provide serious gravitas!
I know he’s appeared in the new movies before, but I still think Benjamin Cabbagepatch would make a good Data.
I’m sure no one would mind if he played someone else in a series, we are an open minded bunch. Plus, he’s just brilliant.
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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.
Christopher Judge
…as the ship’s counselor.
Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry as an Admeeral, and Sean Bean as a doomed redshirt.
Sean Bean with a small one time appearance as a doomed redshirt… and he miraculously survives. Then he gives a big ol troll face to the camera before credits roll.
Sean Bean as a species that has a biological function that mimics death but is actually a healing coma.
I want to see Henry Cavill play a captain or maybe a klingon movie
Cavill, like all Superman actors, is on my list of people who’d play a great good-guy Betazoid.
I’m still hopeful the Quentin Tarantino Trek happens, mostly for his directing/writing but I guess it relates to the question since he usually acts in a some part in his films. What happened with this anyway?
I’d rather see Cronenberg take a shot at a limited streaming series.
He seems to have come to the end of the run of his body horror progression.
More, he’s already working in the franchise playing the enigmatic Kovich and knows the Toronto crews (and their parents in some cases he’s said).
