Star Trek (franchise)

A number of references to the Star Trek universe have occurred in the Doctor Who Universe and vica versa.


 * For specific references to Star Trek: The Original Series, see separate article.

Television
TheStar Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Neutral Zone" contains, a computer console, in the background, has the names of the first six actors to play the Doctor displayed.
 * "Future Tense", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise features a TARDIS-like spacecraft, that could travel through time, that's bigger on the inside than on the outside; the interior design of the craft included TARDIS-like roundels.

Other media

 * The Star Trek novel Ishmael makes an indirect reference to the Time Lords and has a cameo by the Fourth Doctor. (As per a directive from Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and the franchise owners, Paramount Pictures, novels are not considered part of mainstream Trek continuity.

Casting and crew connections
In terms of major co-stars, Daphne Ashbrook (the Eighth Doctor's companion Grace Holloway), played the character of Melora on the Deep Space Nine episode of the same name. In 2009, Simon Pegg, who played The Editor in DW: The Long Game, narrated Doctor Who Confidential, and did vocal work for Big Finish Productions, takes on the role of Scotty in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise.

Others that have appeared in both Star Trek and Doctor Who or its spin-offs include Alan Dale, Guy Siner, Barrie Ingham, Christopher Neame, John Franklyn-Robbins, Maurice Roëves, Olaf Pooley, Gregg Palmer, Deep Roy, David Soul, Alexander Siddig and David Warner.

Star Trek stars who were considered to contribute to the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie include Patrick Stewart (who was considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor and The Master, Stewart has stated in a recent interview that he might have been considered for the roles but he was never formally approached), Kate Mulgrew (who was considered for the role of Grace Holloway) and Frank Welker (who was considered to voice several aliens had the TV Movie pilot been extended to a series).

Other information

 * In April, 2009, Russell T Davies revealed in an interview that he had considered writing a Doctor Who episode that crossed over with Star Trek: Enterprise. "I would have loved to have done a Star Trek crossover," said Davies. "The very first year, we talked about it. Then Star Trek finally went off air. Landing the Tardis on board the Enterprise would have been magnificent. Can you imagine what their script department would have wanted, and what I would have wanted? It would have been the biggest battle."
 * The fan novella The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey, initially published privately as a stand-alone fanzine and then in a professional edition in 1989 by Pioneer Books. Many other amateur fan fiction crossovers between the two universes that have been written over the years, though Airey's book remains (as of 2009) the only one to be published professionally, if unofficially.
 * See more on this, see separate article.


 * There have only been two periods in which the rights to publish comic books based upon Star Trek have been held by the same company holding the rights to publish same based upon Doctor Who. The first was in the 1979-81 period when Marvel Comics published a monthly Star Trek comic at the same time it published (with comic strips) Doctor Who Weekly in the UK (although Marvel's licence on Trek had ended by the time it began republishing the DWM strips in America). More recently, IDW Publishing began a line of Doctor Who originals and reprints in 2007, concurrent with its own ongoing line of Trek-based comic books.
 * In 1994 Leonard Nimoy was reportedly under consideration to direct one of the many aborted Doctor Who feature film projects under consideration during the 1989-96 interregnum.
 * In October 2008, Trek actor Zachary Quinto, the new Mr. Spock, announced David Tennant as the winner of that year's National Television Awards; it was during Tennant's acceptance speech broadcast live via remote that Tennant announced his departure from Doctor Who. Quinto shares a distinction with Matt Smith, the actor chosen to replace Tennant, in having to take over a popular role from a popular actor.