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<blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 83034" data-attributes="member: 2"><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">1. Peter Capaldi</span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/36/640x478/gallery-1504866434-star-trek-peter.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong><strong>Considered</strong> for: Sisko in <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</em></strong></p><p></p><p>20 years before he'd achieve sci-fi stardom as the 12th Doctor, Capaldi tried out for the part of DS9's Sisko. Back in 1992, he went up against not just Avery Brooks, but also Art Malik, Keith Allen(!) and Anthony Head, some five years before he would book the role of Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">2. Linda Hamilton</span></strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x482/gallery-1506085170-janeway-hamilton.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Considered for: Janeway in <em>Star Trek: Voyager</em></strong></p><p></p><p>A few years after revisiting her role as Sarah Connor – herself a sci-fi icon – in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hamilton was apparently considered to play Voyager's Janeway.</p><p></p><p>It seems producers were keen to hire an actress with prior cult credentials. Also under consideration were Lynda Carter of <em>Wonder Woman </em>fame, <em>Buck Rogers </em>veteran Erin Gray and Lindsay Wagner, star of <em>The Bionic Woman</em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As well as...</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">3. Nicola Bryant</span></strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x597/gallery-1506085081-janeway-bryant.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Considered for: Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager</strong></p><p></p><p>Bryant played Peri Brown, companion to first Peter Davison's fifth Doctor and later Colin Baker's sixth on Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986, and was a name on the Janeway shortlist.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, Geneviève Bujold originally landed the part, but abruptly quit after filming just a few scenes from the first episode, citing the show's demanding schedule. She was replaced by Kate Mulgrew, who absolutely made the part her own.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">4. Edward James Olmos</span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x480/gallery-1506085770-picard-olmos.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Considered for: Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation</strong></p><p></p><p>He'd later play the role of commanding officer William Adama in Syfy's reimagining of <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>, but Olmos reportedly turned down the part of Picard because, back in the late '80s, he was keen to focus on film and stage work.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">5. Yaphet Kotto</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x495/gallery-1506085677-picard-kotto.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><strong>Considered</strong> for: Picard in <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em></strong></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Best known for playing Bond villain Kananga in 1973's Live and Let Die, as well as for his role of Parker in Alien (1979), Kotto could have been Trek's first captain of colour after auditioning for TNG, but he was passed over in favour of Patrick Stewart.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">He went on to land a career-defining role in groundbreaking cop show Homicide: Life on the Street, playing Lt Al Giardello from 1993-1999, so all's well that ends well.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">6. Jack Lord</span></strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x530/gallery-1506085557-old-kirk-lord.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Considered for: Kirk in <em>Star Trek: The Original Series</em></strong></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Star Trek </em>without The Shat? Unthinkable! But he wasn't Gene Roddenberry's first choice for the part of James Tiberius Kirk. That honour went to Jack Lord, then best known as the first actor to play James Bond's CIA ally Felix Leiter (in 1962's <em>Dr. No</em>).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">But Lord lost out after demanding part ownership of the <em>Trek</em> franchise. Interestingly, Shatner later followed suit and was actually awarded five per cent ownership, so Lord presumably asked for a larger chunk.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Two years later and Lord secured the most significant role of his career, playing Steve McGarrett in the original <em>Hawaii Five-O</em> – so again, things probably worked out for the best.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">7. Chris Pratt</span></strong></strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x426/gallery-1506085404-new-kirk-pratt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in Star Trek (2009)</strong></p><p></p><p>Moving on to the movies – and as if it weren't already difficult enough to tell them apart, Chris Pratt actually went up for the role eventually nabbed by Chris Pine in JJ Abrams's shiny <em>Trek </em>reboot for the big screen.</p><p></p><p>In another major fork-in-the-road moment, if Pratt had been cast, he might never have become spacefaring hero Peter Quill /Star-Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. AND THEN WHERE WOULD WE BE?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">8. Mike Vogel</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x272/gallery-1506085484-new-kirk-vogel.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in <em>Star Trek (2009)</em></strong></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Another wannabe Jim Kirk, Vogel is best known for a lead role on the TV adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome (2013-2015) and for film appearances in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003) and Cloverfield (2008).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">He got down to the final two for Kirk, but was pipped to the post by Pine. Vogel lost out to another of Hollywood's famous Chrises – this time Chris Evans – a year later when Marvel was casting Captain America.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">9. Joshua Jackson</span></strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x400/gallery-1506085318-new-kirk-jackson.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></strong></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in <em>Star Trek (2009)</em></strong></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Jackson would have been enjoying a bit of a career resurgence in 2008/9, having just launched his FOX sci-fi series Fringe. But it wasn't enough to secure the erstwhile Pacey Witter the part of Kirk.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Like many of the names on this list, he's not done half bad since his brush with Trek, following up Fringe with Golden Globe-winning drama series The Affair.</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">10. Nigel Havers</span></strong></strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x618/gallery-1506085244-janeway-havers.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong><strong>Considered</strong> for: Janeway in <em>Star Trek: Voyager</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Though Janeway was always intended to be female, some male actors were brought in to audition, in case Paramount got cold feet over casting a woman in the lead. (This was in the mid '90s – seriously, guys?)</p><p></p><p>Havers read for the part, but thankfully the idea of Janeway as a dude never took off and the franchise instead gave us its first female Captain. And about time too!</p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ome, post: 83034, member: 2"] [SIZE=6] [/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6]1. Peter Capaldi[/SIZE][/B] [IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/36/640x478/gallery-1504866434-star-trek-peter.jpg[/IMG] [B][B]Considered[/B] for: Sisko in [I]Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[/I][/B] 20 years before he'd achieve sci-fi stardom as the 12th Doctor, Capaldi tried out for the part of DS9's Sisko. Back in 1992, he went up against not just Avery Brooks, but also Art Malik, Keith Allen(!) and Anthony Head, some five years before he would book the role of Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. [B][SIZE=6]2. Linda Hamilton[/SIZE][/B] [IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x482/gallery-1506085170-janeway-hamilton.jpg[/IMG] [B]Considered for: Janeway in [I]Star Trek: Voyager[/I][/B] A few years after revisiting her role as Sarah Connor – herself a sci-fi icon – in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Hamilton was apparently considered to play Voyager's Janeway. It seems producers were keen to hire an actress with prior cult credentials. Also under consideration were Lynda Carter of [I]Wonder Woman [/I]fame, [I]Buck Rogers [/I]veteran Erin Gray and Lindsay Wagner, star of [I]The Bionic Woman[/I]. As well as... [B][SIZE=6]3. Nicola Bryant[/SIZE][/B] [IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x597/gallery-1506085081-janeway-bryant.jpg[/IMG] [B]Considered for: Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager[/B] Bryant played Peri Brown, companion to first Peter Davison's fifth Doctor and later Colin Baker's sixth on Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986, and was a name on the Janeway shortlist. Interestingly, Geneviève Bujold originally landed the part, but abruptly quit after filming just a few scenes from the first episode, citing the show's demanding schedule. She was replaced by Kate Mulgrew, who absolutely made the part her own. [B][SIZE=6]4. Edward James Olmos[/SIZE][/B] [IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x480/gallery-1506085770-picard-olmos.jpg[/IMG] [B]Considered for: Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation[/B] He'd later play the role of commanding officer William Adama in Syfy's reimagining of [I]Battlestar Galactica[/I], but Olmos reportedly turned down the part of Picard because, back in the late '80s, he was keen to focus on film and stage work. [B][SIZE=6]5. Yaphet Kotto[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][B][/B] [B][IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x495/gallery-1506085677-picard-kotto.jpg[/IMG][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4][B][B]Considered[/B] for: Picard in [I]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/I][/B] [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Best known for playing Bond villain Kananga in 1973's Live and Let Die, as well as for his role of Parker in Alien (1979), Kotto could have been Trek's first captain of colour after auditioning for TNG, but he was passed over in favour of Patrick Stewart. 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Interestingly, Shatner later followed suit and was actually awarded five per cent ownership, so Lord presumably asked for a larger chunk. Two years later and Lord secured the most significant role of his career, playing Steve McGarrett in the original [I]Hawaii Five-O[/I] – so again, things probably worked out for the best.[/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4] [/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6]7. Chris Pratt[/SIZE][/B][/B] [IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x426/gallery-1506085404-new-kirk-pratt.jpg[/IMG] [B]Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in Star Trek (2009)[/B] Moving on to the movies – and as if it weren't already difficult enough to tell them apart, Chris Pratt actually went up for the role eventually nabbed by Chris Pine in JJ Abrams's shiny [I]Trek [/I]reboot for the big screen. In another major fork-in-the-road moment, if Pratt had been cast, he might never have become spacefaring hero Peter Quill /Star-Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. AND THEN WHERE WOULD WE BE? [B][SIZE=6]8. Mike Vogel[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][B][/B] [B][IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x272/gallery-1506085484-new-kirk-vogel.jpg[/IMG][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4][B]Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in [I]Star Trek (2009)[/I][/B] [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Another wannabe Jim Kirk, Vogel is best known for a lead role on the TV adaptation of Stephen King's Under the Dome (2013-2015) and for film appearances in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003) and Cloverfield (2008). He got down to the final two for Kirk, but was pipped to the post by Pine. Vogel lost out to another of Hollywood's famous Chrises – this time Chris Evans – a year later when Marvel was casting Captain America.[/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4] [/SIZE] [SIZE=6][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6]9. Joshua Jackson[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4][SIZE=3][B][/B][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][SIZE=3][B][IMG]http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/38/640x400/gallery-1506085318-new-kirk-jackson.jpg[/IMG][/B][/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=4][B]Considered for: Kirk 2.0 in [I]Star Trek (2009)[/I][/B] [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Jackson would have been enjoying a bit of a career resurgence in 2008/9, having just launched his FOX sci-fi series Fringe. But it wasn't enough to secure the erstwhile Pacey Witter the part of Kirk. Like many of the names on this list, he's not done half bad since his brush with Trek, following up Fringe with Golden Globe-winning drama series The Affair.[/SIZE] [B][SIZE=4] [/SIZE] [B][SIZE=6]10. 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