10 Worst Star Trek Moments In 2024

Don't adjust your ocular implants, we've not reverted back to Bev and Riker in Worst Contact, the Very Short Trek. Snot was still the theme, however. The first episode of this year's new Doctor Who — Space Babies — was full of it. The Bogeyman was bogies. Very clever and very gross, Mr Davies! Before the sheer mavity of mucus kicked in, there was a direct mention of Star Trek from companion Ruby Sunday.

"We've got to visit them [i.e. the Star Trek lot] one day," the Doctor replied, implying that Trekverse and Whoniverse occupied some sort of similar space-time. We'd better keep throwing salt over our shoulder at the end of the universe for good luck. In spite of tantalising nods and whispered promises, the two franchises have yet to merge into anything of substance (snot or otherwise).

Going into the 'Intergalactic Friendship Panel: Star Trek X Doctor Who' at San Diego Comic-Con in July, we still had cause to get our hopes up. We shouldn't have. The conversation between Russel T. and Alex Kurtzman was lovely — very amicable, in fact. What it wasn't was the crossover news we were looking for, but a limited-time, free-to-play mobile video game event spanning Star Trek: Lower Decks — The Badgey Directive and Doctor Who: Lost in Time. Allons-y, Alons-no.