10 Actors Who Want To Be In Star Trek
4. Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks would be basically the biggest A-list name Star Trek could ever get - a universally beloved actor who over more than 40 years has delivered some of the most iconic performances of all time.
And unlike most everybody on this list, Hanks' name was actually in the conversation for a Star Trek role at one point, even if he sadly didn't know about it.
While the filmmakers of Star Trek: First Contact were locking down casting for the vital role of Zefram Cochrane - the first human to create a warp drive and make contact with the Vulcans - they kicked around the idea of offering the part to Hanks.
But in a recent interview on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hanks claimed that he'd never actually been offered the chance to play Cochrane, with the part eventually going to the great James Cromwell instead.
Hanks, a huge Trek fan, responded with clear disappointment about never learning of the offer, which he would've loved to accept. Hanks said:
"The guy who invented warp drive? Oh come on! I would have jumped on that!... I would have come in and brought gift Tribbles to everyone on the first meeting. I would have done that!"
While the potential for Hanks' presence to prove distracting in any Trek media speaks for itself, could any producer really say no to him if he formally threw his hat in the ring?