Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT As two of the most popular science fiction franchises of all time, Star Trek and Doctor Who have quite a bit in common. Both franchises began with television shows in the 1960s and have gone on to span multiple spin-offs, movies, books, and audio adventures. They both have massive fanbases comprised of devoted fans who attend conventions, create art, and cosplay as their favorite characters.
17 Steven Berkoff In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 5 episode "Business As Usual," Steven Berkoff plays Hagath, a ruthless arms dealer who operates, for a time, out of Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine. Berkoff appeared as a holographic Shakri in the Doctor Who season 7 episode "The Power of Three." The Shakri were a space-faring humanoid species who tried to wipe out all of humanity, before being stopped by the Eleventh Doctor .
13 John Franklyn-Robbins Character actor John Franklyn-Robbins appeared in many television shows and movies throughout his lengthy career, including two of the biggest science fiction franchises of all time. Franklyn-Robbins played a Time Lord in the 1975 Doctor Who serial "Genesis of The Daleks" alongside the Fourth Doctor . In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Franklyn-Robbins' character Macias was the leader of a Maquis cell on the Federation colony of Juhraya.
9 Simon Pegg Before he became a blockbuster movie star, Simon Pegg popped up in one episode of Doctor Who. In the Ninth Doctor episode, "The Long Game," Pegg played a man known as The Editor, who controlled and monitored the news of the 2001st century. The Editor served a giant slug-like creature called the Jagrafess. Simon Pegg appeared in all three of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies as Enterprise Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.
5 Mark Sheppard Mark Sheppard has appeared in many genre shows, including The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Supernatural. He can also add Star Trek to that impressive list as he appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager season 6 as Leucon, the duplicitous father of Icheb . In Doctor Who, Sheppard played Canton Everett Delaware III, an ex-FBI agent who aided the Eleventh Doctor in his investigation of The Silence.
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