Warning! The next comprises spoilers for the Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds episode “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail.” Stream it with a Paramount+ subscription and skim at your personal danger!
House stands out as the last frontier, however it’s large enough for extra heroes than simply the individuals working in Starfleet? There are many species within the Federation which can be working to make the world a greater place in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, and that evidently consists of one Time Lord. Sure, there was a sneaky easter egg referencing Physician Who in a current episode of the streaming collection, and I can not await future episodes.
Those that have watched “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” could be questioning the place the reference is, and I used to be proper there together with them after studying of this particular growth. As somebody who’s eagerly awaiting particulars on the place and when Physician Who is returning, I used to be fairly shocked I missed a reference till Trekkie diehard @gaghyogi49 confirmed simply how laborious you needed to squint to identify the TARDIS within the background of the tech-hungry ship enveloping the USS Enterprise:
There’s certainly a Tardis (of #DoctorWho fame) seen in each shot of the entangled USS Enterprise contained in the Scavenger ship in #StarTrekSNW’s “The Selat WHO Ate Its Tail”. Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey, certainly! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/9ClUQ5wwmXAugust 16, 2025
It could seem some model of the TARDIS was caught by the human scavenger ship that attacked the Farragut and thrust James T. Kirk into his first style of captaincy. I’ll assume The Physician wasn’t actively on an journey while the Enterprise and Farragut ships fought for his or her lives, and belief that Kirk did not inadvertently kill the Time Lord when he blew up the Scavenger ship. Think about if Physician Who ended up being canceled and this served as an unintentional collection finale!
Happily, I do not assume that is Star Trek attempting to make sure The Physician will get a correct send-off, however somewhat the results of the heads of each franchises coming collectively and doing one thing enjoyable for the followers. Russell T. Davies wrote a Physician Who episode through which The Physician implied to companion Ruby Sunday that Starfleet was an actual group, and he has brazenly talked about eager to do a crossover with the franchise. Perhaps the true purpose he had The Physician bi-generate is so David Tennant’s Fourteenth Physician might sneak off for wild adventures like this.
The dangerous information is that with Physician Who at the moment owned by Disney+ and The BBC, and Star Trek owned by Paramount and Skydance, the chances of all these company heads coming to the desk and making an official crossover occur are slim. The excellent news is that there does appear to be some settlement in place for every collection to reference the opposite, and we could proceed to get references to Physician Who in upcoming Trek reveals and vice versa.
I also needs to add that there already was an unofficial Physician Who and Star Trek crossover within the type of a comic book printed in 2012. The Eleventh Physician groups up with Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise-D crew as they work in tandem to stop an unholy alliance of the Borg and Cybermen from assimilating everybody within the recognized universe. It is a enjoyable journey, although not as cool as it would be to see an precise iteration of The Physician staff up with a Starfleet crew in canon/live-action.
Till that occurs, I will be thrilled with something we get within the meantime and proceed to observe new episodes of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds on Thursdays on Paramount+. Season 3 has been a deal with for extra causes unrelated to Physician Who as of late, so make sure to test it out and catch up!