Wednesday, January 1, 2025

A LOST CROSSOVER - "DOCTOR WHO" & "DEEP SPACE NINE"



From Screen Rant:
A proposed ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek’ crossover would have sent the Doctor to ‘Deep Space Nine’. In the early 2010s, IDW released a crossover that saw Matt Smith’s 11th Doctor meet Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise. The book was a hit with fans and critics, and IDW began plans for a follow-up, titled “Domination”. However, due to licensing issues, the series was scrapped early on, depriving fans of what could have been an epic crossover.

Rich Handley, a noted ‘Star Trek’ comics historian, provided more details about the aborted crossover on his website. Details about the project were scarce, but it would have seen the Doctor arrive at Deep Space Nine. While the site did not specify which Doctor the series would star, two clues point towards it being Matt Smith. First, the crossover would have seen print in 2013, and Smith was still the incumbent at that time. Second, “Domination” would have involved companion Clara Oswald, who, while serving with Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor, also traveled with the 11th.

For fans, part of “Domination”’s appeal would have been watching the Doctor interact with Deep Space Nine’s crew, some of whom have rougher edges than their counterparts on the Enterprise. How the Doctor would have taken to former revolutionary Major Kira or Doctor Bashir is anyone’s guess, and thanks to licensing issues, fans will never know. Likewise, fans have been deprived of watching the Doctor potentially put the Founders and the Vorta in their place, which would have been satisfying to read. While another ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Doctor Who’ crossover may be a pipe dream at this point, there are always possibilities—including the potential to go to ‘Deep Space Nine’.


I have one suggestion for a plot sideline – the sonic screwdriver should have in its databanks a record of the DNA for Lady Cassandra O’Brien.  And in a moment of idle curiosity on board the space station, the Doctor surreptitiously takes a reading from Commander Miles O’Brien and finds that through his daughter Molly, he is a direct ancestor to the “Human Trampoline” who was present at the “End of the World”.  

What he does with that information… well, that I would leave in more capable hands.


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