I think the only thing Shawnster and I missed was the memo that says you get to decide that. You don’t appear to be a moderator.
When Universes Collide (Dr. Who x Star Trek)
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We definitely don’t need yet another argument about Military vs. Non Military, especially in an unrelated topic such as this one.
Assignment Earth doesn't really have much in common with Doctor Who, unless you're comparing it to the Jon Pertwee era. Though Assignment Earth did predate Pertwee's term as the Doctor.
Maybe RTD can finally watch "Darmok" and then write a crossover where the Tamarians and "Midnight" alien hang out.
Gary 7, a being trained by an advanced civilization with knowledge of time travel uses a sonic screwdriver like device to protect Earth from threats both alien and home grown
Now THAT I would love to see.
Obviously DW and Trek can't exist in the same universe, so it would imply that the TARDIS has somehow acquired the ability to traverse alternate realities.
A leftover from "Inferno", perhaps?
Also, would copyright/trademark issues even ALLOW them to do a full-out crossover? Even assuming that both RTD and Paramount were up for it?
They've done it in comics.
‘Planning’ is a generous term for what it was. RTD certainly claims to have had the idea at some point… he is a man who has a lot of ideas… but I don’t think it went very far beyond that.
There’s certainly no evidence that was ever officially on any kind of table (scripts or even a proposal/outline).
DW would've only been (approximately) three years old at the time. How many Americans would've even heard of it?
When I was a kid, the local PBS station would broadcast Dr. Who on Saturdays at midnight (this was during the 1980's).
The Maestro (and the children of The Toymaker) seem to be able to break the 4th wall. If they understand their reality is a TV show, I would assume The Doctor is aware that on some level his reality is a fiction just like the Star Trek universe and might be able to traverse it.
I always liked Robert Heinlein's idea in The Number of the Beast. That every time someone imagines a fictional universe, that universe comes into being and is as real as our own (e.g., I believe he has his characters travel to the universe where The Wizard of Oz takes place), since ours was imagined by a writer out there somewhere too.
Our universe is I believe labeled "one small step," for Neil Armstrong's Moon landing.
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Yeah, the evidence is clear Who did not inspire Assignment Earth.
It's fun, though, to note similarities.
Just like in my head canon Mary Poppins is a Time Lady.
What you had was an individual with a vast technical advantage even over starfleet—with a companion—who just kinda drops in the middle of a crisis…
Willy Wonka is also undoubtedly a Time Lord.
Considering Doctor Who didn't even begin airing in the US until 1972...
It's had it since at least Tennant's first series. The Doctor notes that jumping realities use to be easy but with the passing of the Time Lords it is more difficult.
Not that that will stop any effort to make this idea happen if the desire and the money is there.
Oh. Okay. I'm sorry, I've never seen modern Who.
I knew I was forgetting someone!
did not know this about RTD but i just finished SNW and I busted out and texted my dad that Starfleet is bloody Navy cause they got JAG lawyers lol
hahaha OMG they totes shouldda brough Harm Rabb outta the moth balls.... I wouldda lost it!! (yea yea I know logistically impossible lol)
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