Appearances in series premieres
After The Original Series, at least one character from an earlier series appeared in the premiere episode of each new series. These were the appearances of most of the Original Series main cast in "Beyond the Farthest Star", the first episode of The Animated Series ; Leonard McCoy in "Encounter at Farpoint", the first episode of The Next Generation; Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Miles O'Brien in "Emissary", the first episode of Deep Space Nine; Quark and Morn in "Caretaker", the premiere of Voyager ; Zefram Cochrane (from the original series episode "Metamorphosis" and the film Star Trek: First Contact ) in "Broken Bow", the premiere of Enterprise; Sarek in "The Vulcan Hello", the first episode of Discovery ; Sylvia Tilly in "Runaway", the first episode of Short Treks ; Jean-Luc Picard and Data in "Remembrance", the first episode of Picard ; NOMAD (from the original series episode "The Changeling") in "Second Contact", the premiere of Lower Decks, a training hologram resembling Captain Kathryn Janeway in "Lost and Found, Part 1", the first episode of Prodigy , and Captain Christopher Pike, Spock, Una, Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura, Joseph M'Benga, Robert April, T'Pring, and George Samuel Kirk in "Strange New Worlds", the premiere of Strange New Worlds.
Episodes and films focused on crossovers
Television-to-television crossover
An especially significant crossover is Spock's appearance on the two-part Next Generation episode "Unification". Spock meets Data and they exchange opinions on the relative value of logic and emotion, and share mutual impressions of Next Generation's Captain Picard, who for Spock is a model of logical behavior, and for Data is a model of what it means to be human. Critics such as Ina Rae Hark have noted this encounter between two non-human characters in which they summarize their contrasting attitudes to humanity. Data embodies Spock's ideal of pure logic, even as he aspires to become more human. [1]
Scotty appears in TNG Season 6, Episode 4 "Relics".
Recycled footage from the original series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" is used extensively in Deep Space Nine's time-travel episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". In addition to extensive archival footage of cast from the original series, actor Charlie Brill (portraying Klingon spy Arne Darvin) appears in both new and archival footage. The episode was designed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original series. Critic Matthew Kappell notes that the new episode simultaneously "parodies and valorizes" the original series, highlighting the discontinuities between two eras of Trek while trying simultaneously to weave them together. [2]
William Riker and Deanna Troi from The Next Generation appear in a flash-forward to the future in "These Are the Voyages...", the final episode of Enterprise. This episode was widely criticized by both cast members and fans for playing more like a Next Generation episode to the point of being an inappropriate wrap-up for the series. [3] [4]
Strange New Worlds episode "Those Old Scientists" features live-action appearances of Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler from the animated Lower Decks series. [5]
Film-to-television crossover
In the Voyager episode "Flashback", events from the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) play a pivotal role, and are reenacted with the same actors, thus allowing George Takei to reprise his role as Hikaru Sulu. The episode contains the added revelation that the character of Tuvok was on Sulu's ship Excelsior at the time. Critic Lincoln Geraghty cites this as an example of Star Trek's ongoing propensity for reverential recognition of earlier versions of the series. [6] In a bit of rather glaring discontinuity, the character of Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane is shown to be both alive at the end of the film and dead in the episode. Actor Tim Russ, who portrayed Tuvok, also made an appearance as a bridge officer from the same fictional time period, serving on the Enterprise-B in the feature film Star Trek Generations (1994).
Television-to-film crossover
The film Star Trek Generations brought Kirk and Picard, Enterprise captains from different centuries, together to defeat a common enemy. It also marked the passing of the film franchise from the original series cast to that of The Next Generation.
All crossovers
Character crossovers
- The Original Series on The Animated Series
- The Original Series on The Next Generation
The Original Series on The Next Generation series of films
- The Original Series on Deep Space Nine
- Kang, Koloth, and Kor (with their cranial ridges "restored") appear in "Blood Oath". Kor appears subsequently in "The Sword of Kahless" and "Once More Unto The Breach".
- James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Pavel Chekov, Nyota Uhura, Cyrano Jones, and Korax appear in "Trials and Tribble-ations" (There were clips from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles ", but Benjamin Sisko 's conversation with James T. Kirk was based on footage taken from the episode "Mirror, Mirror").
- The Original Series on Voyager
The Original Series on Enterprise
The Original Series on Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
- The Original Series on Discovery
- The characters Sarek, Amanda Grayson, Spock, Christopher Pike, Number One and Harry Mudd from The Original Series appear as recurring characters in Discovery, all played by different actors. The Talosians and Vina, from the unaired pilot of the original series "The Cage" and the two-part original series episode "The Menagerie," also appeared in the Discovery episode "If Memory Serves". Archival footage from "The Cage" was also used in "If Memory Serves", with archive footage of Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the episode "Unification II" being used in the Discovery episode "Unification III"
- The Guardian of Forever appears in both parts of the episode "Terra Firma", though it is only revealed to be the Guardian in the second part. The character last appeared in "Yesteryear", an episode of The Animated Series.
The Original Series on Short Treks
- The Original Series on Lower Decks
- The Original Series on Strange New Worlds
- The characters Spock, Christopher Pike, Number One, Nyota Uhura, Christine Chapel and Dr. Joseph M'Benga appear as main cast members in Strange New Worlds, all played by different actors than The Original Series with the current actors playing Pike, Number One and Spock previously portraying the roles in Star Trek: Discovery
- T'Pring (originally played by Arlene Martel), James T. Kirk and George Samuel Kirk (both originally played by William Shatner) all appear as recurring characters played by new actors.
- Amanda Grayson, originally portrayed by Jane Wyatt, appears in the episode "Charades," with Mia Kirshner reprising her role from Star Trek: Discovery
- Khan Noonian Singh (originally played by Ricardo Montalban) appears in the episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" played by Desmond Sivan.
- Montgomery Scott (originally played by James Doohan) appears in the episode "Hegemony" played by Martin Quinn. He joined the main cast starting in the third season.
- Roger Korby (first played by Michael Strong) appears the third season, played by Cillian O'Sullivan.
- The Original Series on Prodigy
- The Animated Series on Strange New Worlds
- The Next Generation on Deep Space Nine
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard appears in the episode "Emissary"
- Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien, Molly O'Brien, and Worf make long term moves to the station, starting with "Emissary", "A Man Alone", and "The Way of the Warrior", respectively.
- Lursa and B'Etor appear in the episode "Past Prologue"
- Vash appears (with Q) in the episode "Q-Less"
- Lwaxana Troi appears in the episodes "The Forsaken", "Fascination" and "The Muse"
- Fleet Admiral Alynna Nechayev appears in the episodes "The Maquis, Part II" and "The Search, Part II"
- Gowron appears on numerous episodes, starting with The House of Quark.
- Thomas Riker appears in the episode "Defiant"
- Toral the illegitimate nephew of Lursa and B'Etor appears on the episode "The Sword of Kahless"
- Kurn brother of Worf appears in the episode "Sons of Mogh"
- Alexander Rozhenko appears in the episodes "Sons and Daughters" and "You Are Cordially Invited"
- The Next Generation on Voyager
- The Next Generation on Enterprise
- The Next Generation on Short Treks
- The Next Generation on Picard
- In addition to the shows title character Jean-Luc Picard, Data, William Riker, Deanna Troi, Bruce Maddox (played by a different actor than in the Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man"), Hugh (from the Next Generation episodes "I, Borg " and "Descent ") and Data's disassembled "brother" B-4 from Star Trek: Nemesis , have all appeared on Picard in its first season.
- Guinan, Q, and Wesley Crusher appear in season 2 of Picard
- Beverly Crusher, Worf, Geordi La Forge, Lore, Ro Laren, and Fleet Admiral Shelby appear in season 3 of Picard, in addition to the return of Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Deanna Troi, and Data. The Borg Queen also returns, once again voiced by Alice Krige but physically played by Jane Edwina Seymour.
- The Next Generation on Lower Decks
- Q appears in the episode "Veritas"
- William Riker and Deanna Troi appear in the first season finale "No Small Parts," and Riker also appears in the season 2 episodes "Strange Energies" and "Kayshon, His Eyes Open"
- A holographic statue of Miles O'Brien appears in the far future in the episode "Temporal Edict"
- The Borg Queen appears as a hologram in the episode "I, Exctretus"
- Elizabeth Shelby and Thadiun Okona appear in silent cameos in "An Embarrassment of Dooplers".
- Sonya Gomez appears in the episode "First First Contact"
- Morgan Bateson appears in a non-speaking role in the episode "Grounded"
- An illusion of Leah Brahms appears in the episode "Mining the Mind's Mines"
- Nick Lorcano appears in the episode "The Inner Fight" and he also appears with Wesley Crusher and Sito Jaxa in "Old Friends, New Planets."
- An alternate reality version of Data appears in the episode "Fully Dilated."
- Lily Sloane from an alternate universe appears in the episode "Fissure Quest" and has a non-speaking appearance in "The New Next Generation."
- The Next Generation on Prodigy
- Thadiun Okona appears in the episodes "Crossroads," Masquerade" and "Cracked Mirror"
- A hologram of Beverly Crusher appears in the episode "Kobayashi" while the real Dr. Crusher appears in the episodes "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II" and "Ouroboros, Part II"
- Edward Jellico is a recurring character in both season 1 and season 2
- Wesley Crusher joins the main cast starting with the season 2 episode "The Devourer of All Things, Part I". The Traveler also has a vocal cameo this episode.
- The Next Generation on Section 31
- Deep Space Nine on The Next Generation
- Deep Space Nine on Voyager
- Deep Space Nine on Lower Decks
- Deep Space Nine on Prodigy
- Odo appears as a hologram in the episode "Kobayashi" via archival audio.
- Voyager on The Next Generation series of films
- The Mark I EMH "Doctor" appeared in the film Star Trek: First Contact . This EMH, while identical in name, appearance and mannerisms, was distinct from the Voyager character due to the nature of the EMH being a holographic computer program.
- Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway has a brief cameo in the film Star Trek: Nemesis
- Voyager on Deep Space Nine
- Voyager on Picard
- Seven of Nine has appeared five times in the first season episodes of Star Trek: Picard : "Absolute Candor", "Broken Pieces", "Et in Arcadia Ego: Part I", "Et in Arcadia Ego: Part II" and in "Stardust City Rag" she appears alongside Icheb in a final and brief cameo role. Icheb however is portrayed by different actors than those who had acted in the role on Star Trek: Voyager. Seven would go on to join the main cast for the second and third seasons.
- Tuvok appears in two season 3 episodes: "Dominion", in which he was revealed to be an imposter, and "The Last Generation" which featured the real Tuvok.
- Voyager on Lower Decks
- Tuvok appears in a non-speaking role in the episode "Grounded"
- Michael Sullivan, Doctor Chaotica and The Clown (originally portrayed by Fintan McKeown, Martin Rayner and Michael McKean, respectively) all appear in the episode "Twovix," with Chaotica played by James Sie, and Sullivan and The Clown voiced by uncredited actors.
- Multiple versions of Harry Kim from alternate universes appear in the episode "Fissure Quest" and in non-speaking roles in "The New Next Generation."
- Voyager on Prodigy
- Kathryn Janeway is part of the main cast, appearing both as "Hologram Janeway" and the real Vice-Admiral Janeway.
- Chakotay appears as a recurring character before joining the main cast in the season 2 episode "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I"
- The Doctor joins the main cast in season 2
- Enterprise on Discovery
- Enterprise on Lower Decks
- An alternate reality version of T'Pol appears in the episode "Fissure Quest" and also in "The New Next Generation" in a non-speaking role.
- Discovery on Short Treks
- The characters of Tilly and Saru appear in the episodes "Runaway" and "The Brightest Star" respectively, with Phillipa Georgiou also appearing briefly in the latter episode
- Younger versions of Michael Burnham and her father Mike Burnham appear in the animated episode "The Girl Who Made The Stars"
- Discovery on Section 31
- Emperor Phillipa Georgiou appears in the lead role.
- Short Treks on Discovery
- Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po from the Short Treks episode "Runaway" appears in both parts of the Discovery episode "Such Sweet Sorrow"
- Siranna from the Short Treks episode "The Brightest Star" appears in the Discovery episodes "The Sound of Thunder", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" and through archival footage in "Lights and Shadows"
- Picard on Prodigy
- Jack Crusher, originally played by Ed Speleers, has a vocal cameo by Isabel Krebs
- Lower Decks on Strange New Worlds
Actor crossovers
- The Original Series on The Next Generation
The Original SeriesonThe Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager:
The Original Series on Deep Space Nine:
- Clint Howard who played Balok on the episode “The Corbomite Maneuver” appeared as the mentally ill Sanctuary resident Grady in DS9's “Past Tense, Part II” [13]
The Original Series on Enterprise:
The Original Series on Discovery:
- Clint Howard who played Balok on the episode “The Corbomite Maneuver” played an Orion Drug Dealer in the Star Trek: Discovery season one finale, "Will You Take My Hand?" [13]
The Original Series on Picard:
- The Next Generation on The Original Series
- The Next Generation on Deep Space Nine
- The Next Generation on Enterprise
- The Next Generation on Picard
- Brent Spiner (Data) plays Altan Inigo Soong in the first and third seasons and Adam Soong in the second season.
- The Next Generation on Lower Decks
- Stephen Root (Captain K'Vada) voices Lieutenant Gene Jakoboski in the episode "Starbase 80?!".
- Deep Space Nine on The Original Series
- Rene Auberjonois (Odo) also appears as Colonel West, a human assassin disguised as a Klingon intent on assassinating the Klingon Chancellor at the Khitomer Conference.
- Voyager on Deep Space Nine
- Voyager on The Next Generation
- Enterprise on Voyager
- Deep Space Nine on Voyager
- Deep Space Nine on Enterprise
- Deep Space Nine on Lower Decks
- J. G. Hertzler (General Martok) appears in the episodes "Terminal Provocations" and "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" as a Drookmoni Captain.
- Voyager on Enterprise
- Discovery on Lower Decks
Intercompany crossovers
Star Trek has had a few intercompany crossover stories in comic books. These include:
Marvel Comics franchise, X-Men
DC Comics franchise, Legion of Super-Heroes
IDW Publishing, Doctor Who
Boom! Studios, Planet of the Apes
DC Comics franchise, Green Lantern
Dark Horse Comics, Alien
- Star Trek: The Next Generation/Aliens: Acceptable Losses (cancelled)
IDW Publishing, Transformers
(Star Trek – Legion of Super-Heroes also reveals that DC's Vandal Savage and Flint, a mysterious immortal encountered by James T. Kirk and his crew, are actually parallel universe versions of the same person. While one version adopted the name Vandal Savage and dedicated himself to conquest, the other version adopted the name Flint and turned his life towards art and science.)
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