“We were trying with Russell [T Davies] to do a crossover.”
Science fiction fans were treated to perhaps the greatest Easter egg of all time during the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. And while season 3 of SNW amassed its fair share of critics, it’s unlikely anyone was complaining when Doctor Who’s TARDIS showed up in episode 6, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.”
And in an interview recently posted online (Sunday, June 21), Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman said that the USS Enterprise’s engineering Lanthanite, Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) “traveled in” Doctor Who’s time-traveling spacecraft, the TARDIS. Goldsman said during the interview (per Awards Radar): “We were trying with [Doctor Who's] Russell [T Davies ] to do a crossover.”
Goldsman continued by saying: “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?”
For those not familiar with Kane’s Lanthanite character on Strange New Worlds, Commander Pelia is roughly 5,000 years old. So, it's easy to see how she would have encountered one or more of the many versions of Doctor Who, while she was on Earth. Certainly, The Doctor made his fair share of journeys to our planet.
Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers also said during the same sit-down: “Long history. She’s [Pelia] done many things. She’s had many adventures. Carol [Kane] has had many adventures and has a long history, and so I think it probably speaks to that as well.”
I for one was blown away when the TARDIS appeared ever so briefly behind the Enterprise during the crew’s encounter with Asaasllich, the Destroyer of Worlds. If you missed the episode, Asaasllich reminded me of the mammoth planetary killer in The Original Series season 2 episode “The Doomsday Machine.”
Now, being a fan of actor Matt Smith, I’d like to have seen Pelia mix it up with the Eleventh Doctor in a Who-Trek crossover. How about you? Share your thoughts and comments with us on the Redshirts Always Die Facebook and X pages.
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