Someplace in time and area, the Tardis cloister bell sounds and on a Starfleet ship there’s a purple alert. After coexisting for nearly 60 years, all issues wibbly wobbly timey wimey and folks going boldly the place nobody has gone earlier than will come collectively at San Diego Comedian Con 2024. Physician Who and Star Trek, two of science fiction franchises, will rejoice the inaugural “Intergalactic Friendship Day” at SDCC this 12 months.
The occasion seems to be actually thrilling. The massive draw will probably be showrunners Russell T Davies (Physician Who) and Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek) will sit down in dialog on July 27th at 5:30 to debate the 2 collection. Moreover, a pop up expertise with costumes and props from each collection, entitled “Friendship is Common” will probably be within the Gaslamp Quarter. There’s going to be loads of alternatives for images. This dialog and expertise feels like can’t miss alternatives for Whovians and Trekkies at SDCC.
All of this stated, let the hypothesis start. Might this be a prelude to a Physician Who and Star Trek crossover taking place? It is a lot of promotion only for two franchises and a company vacation. The panel between Davies and Kurtzman takes place after each the Star Trek and Physician Who panels. Physician Who’s premiere “Area Infants” had Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Physician joke about assembly Star Trek characters with new companion Ruby Sunday. Was he being severe? Might the Fifteenth Physician and Ruby probably meet the Unusual New Worlds’ crew? One closing journey with the USS Discovery? An animated cameo on Decrease Decks?
If there’s an announcement coming, and the Star Trek and Physician Who loving workers right here at The Beat hope there’s, it will occur at Comedian-Con. That’s the place large bulletins occur. It’s additionally potential this dialog between the 2 present runners could reveal particulars a few potential crossover there.
It might simply be two creatives sharing mutual admiration. That is all wild hypothesis however followers can dream for this type of crossover to occur? Not less than there will probably be friendship bracelets.
Right here’s the small print for the occasions at SDCC
Via 15 medical doctors and over a dozen courageous captains, sci-fi followers have travelled on journeys spanning the cosmos, and on July 30 followers will rejoice because the Physician Who and Star Trek franchises come collectively to rejoice the creation of the inaugural Intergalactic Friendship Day. The celebration aligns with Worldwide Friendship Day which was established in 2011 with the concept friendship between peoples, nations, cultures and people can encourage peace efforts and construct bridges between communities. All through each franchises’ lengthy histories, there have been quite a few on-screen nods to one another that delight followers, and now the 2 popular culture titans Physician Who and Star Trek are becoming a member of forces to highlight shared values of friendship, hope and fandom with fan celebrations, digital activations and particular giveaways.
The collaboration will kick off at San Diego Comedian-Con, the place Alex Kurtzman, showrunner and government producer of the Star Trek franchise, and Russell T Davies, showrunner and government producer spearheading the Physician Who Whoniverse, come collectively for an unique creator-to-creator dialog concerning the artwork of storytelling in different universes and to rejoice the facility of friendship. The SDCC Intergalactic Friendship Panel: Star Trek x Physician Who will probably be on Saturday, July 27, from 5:30-6:30 PM, in Room: 6A, and will probably be moderated by Keisha Hatchett, workers editor of TVLine. Attendees to the creator dialog will every obtain a particular Physician Who X Star Trek poster designed by artist Dusty Abell.
Beneath the banner of “Friendship is Common,” Star Trek and Physician Who will function a particular celebratory gallery expertise at 226 and 230 5th Avenue within the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. The gallery expertise will characteristic unique costumes and props from throughout the storied histories of each, highlighting themes of friendship and shared values between the 2 universes. There may also be photograph alternatives for followers in addition to particular friendship bracelet giveaways. “Friendship is Common” activation hours of operation are Thursday, July 25 by way of Saturday, July 27 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM, and Sunday July 28 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Admission is free. “Friendship is Common” is just not an official SDCC activation, subsequently no badge is required for entry.
The present season Physician Who presently streams on Disney+. All issues Star Trek (besides Prodigy and the films) will be discovered on Paramount+.
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