10 Crazy Comic Books Way Better Than They Had Any Right To Be

Fans of Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation might be hard pressed to find more than the superficial similarities of genre in common between the two beloved shows.

Thematically, they are very different. One follows a military exploration vessel from a near-utopian society and it's crew of highly-trained specialists as they seek out new life and try to maintain galactic order, while following strict rules. The other is about a madman in a box who dislikes authority, bouncing around space and time with friends and making up rules as he goes.

That they would cross over seems unlikely, or maybe even groan inducing - and yet they did, and it was amazing.

Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 (squared) is a crazy gamble of a crossover if ever there was one, and it works. Why it works can be credited to the writers, Scott and David Tipton and Tony Lee, who expertly navigated the universes of the two series and made them fit together as if they belonged.

In this series the long standing Whovian complaint that the Borg are really similar to the Cybermen becomes the launching point for an epic conflict between cyborg monsters from parallel realities, with the Enterprise and Tardis crews respectively caught between them.

Scott, and Lee manage to succeed not only in delivering a fully engaging eight part adventure, but in making that story simultaneously feel like Star Trek and Doctor Who and hitting all the right beats for both.