10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

9. THE Crossover Event

Fans have been dreaming of some kind of large-scale crossover event between the various series ever since stock footage of the USS Voyager appeared in the teaser trailer for Star Trek: First Contact. Naturally, ship and crew hadn't whizzed back to the Alpha Quadrant for the movie itself.

Crossovers have been done to varying degrees of success — from the frankly bad of Birthright, Parts I & II and These Are the Voyages…, through the decidedly better of Unification and Those Old Scientists. Fun with Reg and Deanna on Star Trek: Voyager was always welcome, as were those other get-togethers on Deep Space 9.

No episode, series, or movie has ever combined all of the extant Captains, now all with differing amounts of pips. Whatever they've got on their collar, it would take a lot of temporal shenanigans — and a hefty pile of contracts — to get at least Pike, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, Burnham, and Freeman in the same room together for some shenanigans of their very own.

Beta canon has provided many ideas that could serve as a blueprint. For example, the Star Trek: The Captain's Table novel series used a 'bar' locale in another dimension (the titular 'Captain's Table') as its conceit — the door to which was only accessible to those with the rank (from across time, and not just from Starfleet).

There is also always the holodeck, made good era-hopping use of in the Star Trek Annual (2023). Via a more linear narrative, the 2006 video game Star Trek: Legacy told the story of its single player campaign across several eras and characters — from Captain Archer through to Admiral Janeway, and even Avery Brooks as Captain Sisko in between.

Speaking of Legacy…