One actor you wish would do Trek
One actor you wish would do Trek
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.
Shohreh Aghdashloo, the actress of Chrisjen Avasarala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2znSxzcLvvM
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.
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 could also see Lucy Liu as a no nonsense Captain.
I've just been rewatching Elementary and I think she'd be fantastic.
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.
PAGING MICHAEL SHANKS
PAGING MICHAEL SHANKS
I would love to see/have seen Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick get a scene together.
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
I know he's appeared in the new movies before, but I still think Benjamin Cabbagepatch would make a good Data.
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His holodeck episodes would be quite fascinating indeed.
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.
*ahem* Moriarty
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.
Aubrey plaza, warrick Davies and Donald Glover are my favourite of your picks!
I LOVE the idea of William Jackson Harper as a First Officer. I want to see what he does with a confident character.
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 .....
I never knew I wanted to see this.
Can he just constantly yell 'fuck!' like in doom patrol?
Christopher Judge
Indeed.
You get an updoot! And YOU get an updoot!
...as the ship's counselor.
Hah! Searching images with text is nearly impossible, but I did see a Martok image about doing battle against depression.
Jeffrey Coombs hasn't been in Lower Decks, Prodigy or SNW yet. He needs to get on that!
I want to see him play a Q. Squeeze all of the smarm of Brunt and all of the smug power-tripping of Weyoun into one character.
Conversely, imagine a Q with the energy of Herbert West.
CCH Pounder. She's amazing in everything! I'd love to see Avery Brooks come back.
+1 for Avery Brooks! I so would love to see him back.
Second this. She's always great.
Or maybe Glenn Howerton, if she's not available.
Nic Cage would be awesome. I'd love to see Daniel Radcliffe. He definitely has a lot of range.
Oooh that would be great!
Keith David. He was great in the outer limits and men at work, and i always wanted to see him captain a starfleet ship.
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.
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.
It's just not the same without the crazy eyes and facial expressions.
I second and third Nic Cage.
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.
I think Jack Black would be a good Klingon
Or, hear me out, a Tellarite
And make him a major supporting character, Tellarites have had very little of their culture explored and I'd love to see how Jack would handle it
But alternatively, imagine him as President of the Federation.
I can picture him in one of those TOS Romulan helmets. Or as a Tellarite.
Ferengi Joe Pesci
I never knew I wanted this. But now I’m sure of it. Especially if we can also get a ferengi Danny Devito and his toes in as the leader.
Giancarlo Esposito (actor who played Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad). He make a great charismatic leader. Imagine him as Admiral of Starfleet! 🙌
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.
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.
Paul Rudd, just because of how challenging it would be to put his face into Trek without being immensely distracting to the story.
Miley Cyrus would make a good Orion. Fight me.
Miley would make a good Orion!
Maybe Tendi's mom?
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.
Michael Ironside in his younger days. I would have loved to see him as a Trek captain in the style of his Starship Troopers character, ie a grizzled, take-no-prisoners leader, but would do anything for his people. Sort of a Lorca kind of captain, but Michael Ironside.
I’d like to throw in some Canadian actor suggestions.
While it’s true that Discovery has drawn its seasonal guests stars and background cast among actors working in Canada, there are certainly others I’d like to see.
Ryan Gosling just seems, like Nic Cage, to be the kind of actor to make a interesting guest turn.
Sandra Oh would be great as a challenging captain or flag officer.
Cara Gee (Drummer in The Expanse) can equally play quirky and delightful characters (as she did in the indie film Red Rover). I’d love to see her get a lighter, comic turn in Trek.
Maurice Dean Winte (British-Canadian) is really compelling as Auggie in Surreal Estate, and would be a great guest alien. In fact, it would be great to see Tim Rozen appear as well.
Academy Award nominee Graham Greene - who recently made an impression in a Last of Us episode.
Some younger actors could include those who’ve graduated out of TVO/PBS productions targeted to kids including actor/writer/producer prodigy Jadiel Dowlin Lewis, Adrienna Di Liello, Addison Holley, Dalila Bella, Anna Cathcart, Issac Kragten.
Last, I’d like to see Samora Smallwood - who placed Lt Amin on the Enterprise in Discovery season two and in the Short Trek Q&A, come back as a guest star. She’s gone onto main cast roles in other shows, and a Canadian Screen Award. Even if they didn’t have a place for her as a regular in SNW, she’s more than able to hold a guest turn.
Seein him in Peacemaker and how creepy he was in Guardians 3, I would love for Chukwudi Iwuji to show up in Trek. As an antagonist especially.
My vote goes to Shailene Woodley. She would make a great Captain or Number One.
I just checked and I've never seen anything she's been in. I will keep an eye out for her.
I really liked her in Divergent, but she was also great in Misanthrope.
I want to see Ryan Reynolds make a cameo as a #1/XO and just professionally sass the captains orders.
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).
The things that man will make come out of a transporter...