Post by fitzoliverj on Jun 17, 2016 10:58:41 GMT
This is more of a passing thought than anything else, but it strikes me that "Star Trek" and its Expanded Universe are a lot more circumspect about doing crossovers between the different eras than "Doctor Who" is at doing multi-Doctor stories.
"Doctor Who" seems quite happy for its characters to cross their own timelines and for the Doctor to meet himself, but you generally don't get, say, Picard regularly going back in time to meet Kirk. This kind of thing isn't entirely unknown - there's a Seven of Nine meets Kirk novel, for example - but generally the writers appear to prefer having people meet their 'future' by the conventional means of living for a very long time.
So, is this simply because "Doctor Who" has time travel as a major theme, or is there another reason?
(Conversely, there's a lot more interdimensional travel in "Star Trek".)
"Doctor Who" seems quite happy for its characters to cross their own timelines and for the Doctor to meet himself, but you generally don't get, say, Picard regularly going back in time to meet Kirk. This kind of thing isn't entirely unknown - there's a Seven of Nine meets Kirk novel, for example - but generally the writers appear to prefer having people meet their 'future' by the conventional means of living for a very long time.
So, is this simply because "Doctor Who" has time travel as a major theme, or is there another reason?
(Conversely, there's a lot more interdimensional travel in "Star Trek".)
