10 Awesome Doctor Who Ideas That Nearly Happened
7. An Enterprising Crossover
Doctor Who and Star Trek have crossed paths in comic-book form, with the 2012 limited series Assimilation featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Jean-Luc Picard dealing with a Cybermen/Borg alliance.
And seven years previously, these two sci-fi juggernauts almost crossed paths on TV too.
In 2005 (the first year of the Doctor Who revival), serious consideration was given to the idea of the TARDIS vworp-vworping over to the Star Trek universe, and would presumably have seen either the Ninth or Tenth Doctor meet Captain Jonathan Archer - the lead of Star Trek: Enterprise, which was the Trek show on TV at that time. However, when Enterprise was cancelled after its fourth season, any potential crossover plans were nipped in the bud.
Though it probably wasn't the right timing for a dwindling Star Trek series and a fresh, full-of-potential Doctor Who series to combine forces, there's no doubt that this would've been a pop-culture event for the ages, and a real treat for fans of both properties.
Oh, and shoutout to the folks at TrekCulture. Lovely bunch.