Surprised no one has done a fanfic adapting the Doomsday Machine as something Chuck unwittingly created as a measure against the Black Arms or whatever and Sonic and friends have to take it out before it takes out their world. Makes one hell of a boss fight like the SA2 Biolizard fight but on steroids and more high pressure.

Hello, David: I am unclear on what you mean by "modern Star Trek". Do you refer to ALL Star Trek (including Bad Robot and Secret Hideout productions), or do you refer to "old Trek" (with a cut-off sometime before, say, 2009)? I am an original trekkie from 1966. My personal Star Trek is TOS and the first six movies. I love it because it is optimistic. It expresses a belief in humanity, in our ability to work together to make the world a better place, a belief which is realistic when you consider what we have achieved in the preceding 12000 years in medicine, technology, science, arts, humanities, food, and longevity. Live long and prosper.

@@user-ec5bo8tx4n Those that you mention are not star trek. They are or were produced by other organisations who do not own the licence. They are comic tributes or parodies. No I refer to such contributions as Star Trek Strange New Worldd or Star Trek Prodigy. Both include such lessons and optimism akin to those original Star Trek qualities that you approve of. Sadly some people have arbitrarily cut off dates that do not relate to story content or intention and so discourage others from enjoying any Star Trek beyond those dates. Hespirfising the production of future stories like spoiled children packing away their toys in anger because they are not getting their way. They also claim that stories they personally dislike are badly written which again is hugely subjective. Meanwhile such episodes as Spock's Brain and The Way to Eden and even Star Trek 5 are immunised from such critisisism, seemingly due to the calendar. Ironically some scenes in Star Trek five are beautifully acted and very Star Trek. Plus the opening sequence to Spock's Brain is very dramatic and suspenseful. But I'm being open minded. Which seems out of fashion in fandom today. Many prefer a very dogmatic and rigid Canon to feel comfortable. The irony of their position is that it is exactly opposite to that of Gene Roddenberry, who you might imagine they would respect. He was an innovator after all. Took great risks in 1964 to make very radical points for the time about sexism and racism for exsmple. As Star Trek Discovery has in recent times. It is occasionally a challenging watch. Just as The Cage was for many over half a century ago. Mr Roddenberry was an experimenter. He was not into dogma as many current fans are. Recent shows have taken risks. Occasionally missed the mark spectacularly. Yet these shows have shifted timeframes. Jettisoned certain characters and brought back beloived legacy characters in an effort to please fans. Yet the prejudiced refuse to recognise both the experimentation or the attempts to satisfy long term fans. It reminds me of watching Lokai and Bele as they fought over their skin colour. A very sad, sign of our intolerant times. That's what I mean. Some have gone as far as to threaten the lives of producers. I sometimes wonder if Gene Roddenberry was threatened for putting George Takei and Nichelle Nicholls on his starship of dreams? After all during the late 1960s, civil unrest was raging in America. It seems that the Metron prediction about our potential is still a distant dream. Maybe one day?

Agreed, it’s disheartening that many are quick to just write off everything post-Enterprise because it doesn’t conform to their view and they don’t respect the people who do like it.

@myriadmediamusings Yes. But it is worse than that. They ignore the passage of time. The music people. The makeup people etc etc. These people try to entertain us. Personally, i found lower decks ill disciplined and weak. Highly unfunny but people celebrated it. But certain people celebrated the end of Discovery. I liked a lot of it. But am grateful to it for4l opening th3 door forcl Strange New Worlds and yes for Lower Decks too. Not for me but others. Even J J Trek kept the torch flickering. So this intolerancrle is actually anti Star Trek.

I'm sure that Bird would agree.

Apparently Nichelle it is.

I know, mind blown!

@@dwainsimmons3447 An excellent idea. Thanks!

My immediate thought!

You mean Professor Arturo from Sliders?

Or, perhaps, the Spaniard from Shogun?

Mayhaps Mighty Thor, Prince of Asgard?

Well they’ve already done multiple comic crossover so why not at this point.

@@myriadmediamusings you do have a point and a DC and Star Trek crossover movie could work

and the human representative Talbot on Nimbus III in Star Trek 5.

@@Tuning3434 you are correct!

And, to my knowledge, he also played Sark in Tron.

@necronustheeverchosen1994 you know I think you could be right about that. TRON is a movie that never needs a squeal and I'm not ever considering Legacy as a squeal.

The one that blew me away when I found out was Martin Sheen as Punisher.