10 Actors Who Should Be In Star Trek

Laurence Fishburne is a multi-talented, award-winning actor, with films and TV series under his belt as diverse as Apocalypse Now, The Color Purple, Pee-wee's Playhouse, CSI, and Hannibal. His stint as Captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus, in The Matrix also makes him a veritable sci-fi legend. So convinced, in fact, are people that Fishburne is Morpheus, the actor jokingly once stated that he considered carrying around red and blue M&Ms to "blow people's minds". This time let's take both pills and slide down the rabbit hole into Trek wonderland!

Fishburne has an intriguing link to Star Trek, albeit a very tenuous one. In 1997, the actor played another ship's Captain, Miller, in now cult sci-fi/horror classic Event Horizon. As the film's director Paul W.S. Anderson told Variety in 2022, Paramount Studios executives — clearly not fans of all that gore in outer space — weren't pleased when they saw Event Horizon for the first time, commenting "We're the studio that makes Star Trek!" as if his movie had somehow "besmirched" the franchise.

We're sure that's all water under the bridge carpet by now, however. With Fishburne's star power, and sci-fi captaincy previous, he'd be perfect for a leadership role in Star Trek, although he's surely earned the admiral pips/stripes by now!