Christina Chong has pitched a wild Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover that would let her literally return to the Whoniverse by making La’an Noonien‑Singh and Lorna Bucket the same person. It is purely a fan‑driven idea for now, but it is exactly the kind of timeline‑bending concept both franchises could pull off.
Chong is not just pitching a crossover; she is pitching a character-level identity twist that would let her literally stitch her two sci-fi lives together. Her idea reframes the bridge between Strange New Worlds and Doctor Who as something intimate and character-driven, not just a spectacle of ships and TARDISes sharing the same frame.
"So what I would do is—I played character called Lorna Bucket in 'A Good Man Goes to War,' one of Matt Smith’s episodes—and I would somehow find a way to make La’an and Lorna Bucket the same character. And create a story as to why Lorna Bucket was in the Whoniverse and what brought her to Trekverse. I don’t know what that reason would be right now," Chong said (via TrekMovie.com)
In context, that pitch does two clever things at once. First, it leans into the meta fun of a single actor carrying an identity across two iconic franchises without getting bogged down in canon logistics. Second, it quietly plants a flag for how any future crossover would need to work emotionally: the real question is not “How can these universes meet?” but “Why did this woman live two lives, and what broke or healed in the space between Lorna and La’an?”
That is where Chong’s idea stops being a convention soundbite and starts to feel like the seed of a genuinely rich character study. La’an is already defined by legacy, generational guilt, and trauma she never asked for, while Lorna is defined by faith, memory, and a belief in a “very, very kind” man who changes her life.
Letting those two identities collide opens the door to exploring how myth, war, and time can grind a person down or build them back up, the kind of emotionally precise, character-first storytelling that makes a crossover feel earned rather than gimmicky, and exactly the sort of angle that invites deeper coverage instead of just headline-chasing.
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