10 Actors Who Want To Be In Star Trek

10. Nicolas Cage

Kicking things off with perhaps the single most chaotic choice on this list, we have Nicolas Cage, who while promoting his new Western film The Old Way told Yahoo! that he's a card-carrying Trekkie and would love to join the franchise.

When the interviewer mentioned that Pedro Pascal - Cage's co-star in the recent The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - wanted to recruit Cage to join his Star Wars series The Mandalorian, Cage replied:

"I'm not really down... I'm a Trekkie, man. I'm on the Star Trek Enterprise. That's where I roll... I'm not in the Star Wars family. I'm in the Star Trek family."

Cage also expressed a fondness for Trek's history of sociopolitical messaging and praised Chris Pine's performance as the rebooted Captain Kirk in the J.J. Abrams-produced movies.

With Paramount still hoping to get a fourth Pine-starring movie before cameras soon, wouldn't Cage make for one hell of an addition to the cast, whether as a sage supporting character or riotous villain?