Star Trek Characters That Need To Meet Each Other (Somehow)

We live in a time of what if and what could have happened, with several franchises spending their efforts on multiverses and matchmaking. While some would argue the multiverse trend is starting to wane, there is one franchise that has barely dipped their toes in that pool. With that being the case, we here at TrekCulture got to thinking - who are the great pairings that were never to be in Star Trek?

There are those characters who were so clearly meant to meet in contemporary settings and for one reason or another, it was never to be. Then there are those characters separated by years and rights, kept apart despite the obvious enjoyment their get-together would bring.

While this is very much a wish fulfilment list, we are also going to do our best to justify these pairings. Why, other than it being pretty damn cool, should these people share the screen? There will be more than one simple reason. There are character beats shared between them that entice us all with their matching, their meeting, and their problem solving. We aren't simply pairing them up because it would be cool. 

But you have to admit - some of these would be pretty damn cool.

While the simple fact of their shared Vulcan heritage would be interesting enough, T’Pol and Spock share more similarities than a pair of pointed ears. Both were modelled in the same form - part of an overall triumvirate for the audience to focus on,  though they also both play crucial roles in their respective series - as outsiders.

In Star Trek, Spock, after a couple of false starts, served as the heart of the series, ironically, though he shared this status with Dr. McCoy. As a half-Vulcan, he was able to see things in a different light, offering a cooler head in times of crises, particularly when Captain Kirk might have chosen to jump where walking would have been the better option. Spock was, however, not the first Vulcan to serve aboard a Starfleet vessel - he was simply the first we saw on screen.

Roughly one hundred years before, T’Pol’s journey from a member of the Vulcan High Command, serving as their representative on the NX-01, to a Starfleet officer with a field commission, was the template for all Vulcan officers to follow. She broke boundaries in being that first, learning some crucially important details about serving with humans - not least of which being their odour.

With the life span that Vulcans have, T’Pol and Spock’s meeting seems an inevitability. She may serve as, if not a mentor, then certainly a cooler counterpoint to Spock’s journey.  His, so connected with humanity from his birth, contrasts hers, who only truly encountered humans when she began serving. She would easily still be alive while he was in Starfleet Academy, so a logical lunch over a bowl of Plomeek Soup would seem to be in order.