10 Actors Who Should Be In Star Trek

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and the wee donkey, it's Ted Hastings, like the battle! So, listen up fellas, sprats, and mackerels at Paramount, because we didn't come floating up the Lagan on a bubble! Adrian Dunbar needs to be in Star Trek!

The Northern Ireland born actor has enjoyed a prolific career on stage, screen, and behind the camera for over four decades. No stranger to a sci-fi franchise or two, Dunbar voiced British solider McCarthy in the season two episode Brave New Town of the BBC Radio Doctor Who series The Eighth Doctor Adventures and starred in the BBC's 2005 live-broadcast film remake of 1950s sci-fi series The Quatermass Experiment. He even played Senator Bail Antilles of Alderaan in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, but his scenes were cut from the theatrical release.

Dunbar is no doubt most well-known for his role as head of police anti-corruption unit 12 in the hugely popular Line of Duty. AC-12's no nonsense SI would certainly have fit right in chasing alien OCGs in ST: T-N-G, D-S-9, V-O-Y, and E-N-T, but these days we could see the Gaffer actor as an admiral, or at least a captain, in S-N-W.

Either that or he'd be catching bent Starfleet officers (to the letter of the law… the letter, of course) as head of Starfleet Intelligence in the much-hoped-for ST: L-E-G… A-C-Y. H is no doubt a relative of Q, after all.

Mother of God, just give Adrian Dunbar his own Long Trek, in fact!

Now we're sucking dilithium!