10 Actors Who Should Be In Star Trek

One of the finest, most sought-after actors of his generation, Stephen Graham is equally at home in big budget Hollywood with DiCaprio and De Niro as he is in an intimate BBC drama. Known for playing criminals (or at least the multifaceted wrong'un type) in films and series such as Gangs of New York, The Irishman, This is England, Boardwalk Empire, and the odd Guy Richie oeuvre, the Merseyside native is a master of accents, and recently showed off his keen comedic timing and culinary talents in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical and Boiling Point respectively.

Graham also joined previous actor on this list in the cast of Line of Duty for season five, playing deep deep deep OCG undercover operative, and (*spoiler alert*) wrong-end-of-a-knifed, police detective John Corbett.

Not to type-cast, but if it's complex, morally ambiguous undercover operatives you're after, Star Trek has a few organisations for that! Section 31 might be the obvious choice, but why not a Romulan Tal Shiar agent, or a Long Trek about the Orion Syndicate? Graham could equally play an operative (or head) of the Department of Temporal Investigations now that the time-travel police are getting some more attention in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Our own Seán Ferrick also cast Graham as Rom in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine reboot so, for fear of going back to coffee duty, I must say that is absolutely the only and most magnificent choice!