{"id":652670,"date":"2026-06-22T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:59:14","slug":"doctor-who-and-star-trek-showrunners-discussed-possible-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652670\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers revealed that a Doctor Who\/Star Trek crossover spent years in discussions with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were trying with Russell to do a crossover, Goldsman explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/awardsradar.com\/2026\/06\/21\/interview-henry-alonso-myers-and-akiva-goldsman-talk-star-trek-strange-new-worlds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards Radar<\/a>. We were for years. Again, these are the near misses, but we got not unclose and we had some really cool conversations about it. And so, certainly in our view, I mean, Pelia traveled in the TARDIS. Why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the the 2025 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finale New Life and New Civilizations, chief engineer Pelia (Carol Kane) mentions <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/preview-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-finale-teases-doctor-who-connection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spending time with a certain time-travelling Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Pelia-Travelled-with-Doctor-Who1-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145781\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong history. She\u2019s done many things. She\u2019s had many adventures,\u201d Myers said of the long-lived Lanthanite.<\/p>\n<p>Goldsman replied \u201cThat\u2019s right\u201d at the suggestion that Starfleet is canon in Doctor Who after the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) suggested to Ruby (Millie Gibson) that they should visit them someday in the Season 1 episode <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-space-babies-cast-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Babies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Doctor-Who-visit-Star-Trek-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145314\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2025 series, the Doctor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/headlines\/doctor-whos-tardis-pops-up-in-star-trek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TARDIS is seemingly trapped<\/a> with the USS Enterprise inside a star-eating monstrosity in The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Enterprose-TARDIS-Doctor-Who-Star-Trek1-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145295\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who and Star Trek did unite for two mobile game crossovers from East Side Games, as announced at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/games\/doctor-who-and-star-trek-unite-for-game-crossover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intergalactic Friendship Day panel<\/a> at San Diego Comic Con in July 2024 by Russell T Davies and Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Doctor-Who-Star-Trek-Lower-Decks-Lost-in-Time-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Who Star Trek game crossover\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-135105\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The good-natured practice of subtle winks aimed at keen-eyed (and eared) fans of both iconic franchises never did make it to a full-blown crossover on television screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers revealed that a Doctor Who\/Star Trek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[189708,835,96,219495,219496,125471,16383,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-akiva-goldsman","tag-doctor-who","tag-entertainment","tag-henry-alonso-myers","tag-pelia","tag-russell-t-davies","tag-star-trek-strange-new-worlds","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}