Could Doctor Who Boldly Go?

So it appears that Russell T Davies was seriously considering a Doctor Who and Star Trek crossover for the 2009 Easter special.

Can you just imagine how shit it would have been? How could the two universes possibly have been reconciled using only Russell T Davies second rate writing skills?

It would mean the Daleks, Cybermen, Sea Devils, Sontarans and, let’s not forget, Time Lords all sharing the same universe as the Borg, Klingons, Ferrengi and Vulcans?

The Doctor and Kirk. Hmmm, yes...

It is possible, just slightly, that it would make it would have made for a fairly interesting show but why stop at just Star Trek Russell?

Why don’t you look to get Aliens, Predators, ET and the creatures from Signs in on the act? Fuck it, let’s keep going! Get Jabba the Hutt, the Blues Brothers and James Bond involved!

As per usual, Russell – not being a sci-fi fan – doesn’t realise that it takes great skill to write for long running and respected franchises.

The BBC might have been happy to let him piss all over Doctor Who but we can’t see Paramount being that keen on letting him trample clumsily all over Star Trek with his usual bluster, or as he puts it.

I would have loved to have done a Star Trek crossover. The very first year, we talked about it. Then Star Trek finally went off air. Landing the Tardis on board the Enterprise would have been magnificent. Can you imagine what their script department would have wanted, and what I would have wanted? It would have been the biggest battle!

Er, no, no it wouldn’t Russell. Paramount would have told you that you were going to do and you could accept that or fuck off and take your amateur ideas with you. There would be no battle.

Paramount work hard to protect their franchises and as a consequence the sci-fi universe Star Trek inhabits is coherent and works well. Star Trek is in fact one of the better examples of this coherence in sci-fi and even the new film – which reset practically everything within Star Trek history – maintained canon with clever use of a time travel.

The only reason the Russell T Davies would ever have thought that a Star Trek and Doctor Who crossover would have worked is because he has no series bible and has no sense of what it takes to form a coherent and believable space for his characters to inhabit.

He has – or rather had – no idea from one day to the next where the Doctor was going or what he was going to do.

Ironically he quite literally had no clue where the Doctor’s future lay.

This is clear from the fact that he even considered this crossover. If he was a proper writer, the outline for his entire tenure would have been written within months of him signing on to the project.