Crossover with "Star Trek", kind of

We're going to dip into the email bag today, with a letter from James Craig Burley, who has a request for a "Sleep No More" crossover fan fiction:

Subject: Crossover Request: "Star Trek"

So are you up to doing this? I know you've done Star Wars already, but ST:TOS ("The Original Series") has some awesome episodes to tie in, or maybe you could pick just one.

If going the multi-episode route, here are some plot elements, characters, etc. to consider:

• "Mudd's Women": The three women could be witches, who need a special potion to...look beautiful, know how to dance, avoid chatting too much, know the future, etc.
• "What Are Little Girls Made Of?": MacBeth is replaced with an android...by Lady MacBeth
• "The Conscience of the King": Shakespearean actor; murder; former governor of a planet; almost writes itself!
• "Shore Leave": Enterprise cast beams down to a seemingly-idyllic planet...and end up on the SNM set, forced to wear white masks...and red shirts!! They're all going to die!!
• "Mirror, Mirror": SNM cast members with goatees...makes me giggle like a little girl just thinking about it. Meanwhile, SNM characters (or actors?) find themselves in uniform and corresponding roles on the Enterprise, and have to fly the ship while figuring out how to get home (and what is up with Spock and those ears)
• "Catspaw": Perhaps too obvious?
• "Journey to Babel": This might be interesting made into an episode "told" SNM-style
• "Spectre of the Gun": The ST:TOS cast is forced to re-enact SNM instead of the OK Corral shoot-out
• "The Tholian Web": Kirk is caught in a janitor's closet by Hecate, who tells him a sad story, while the crew tries to find him and also extricate the ship from the "web" of a tale spun by SNM
• "Whom Gods Destroy": Also perhaps too obvious, because it has Shakespeare, dancing, insanity, etc., but why not? Almost writes itself....

Okay, clearly I'm not doing work I should be doing (the downside of working at home instead of in an office with glass walls and doors), but here's another possibility: do a "semi-serious" retelling of SNM within the plot arc of "City on the Edge of Forever":

• It's one of the best ST:TOS episodes ever
• It had Joan Collins
• It had time travel
• It had prophecies (after a fashion)
  
• It had death and destruction
  
• Spock could use various SNM set-prop items to make the tricorder work (dead animal carcasses, playing cards, Frusen Gladje ice cream, Hecate's ring, ...)
• Both Kirk and Spock refuse to bathe due to the live eel in the bathtub
• Kirk could be an audience member asked by Banquo to kill MacBeth, Spock sees a dubious future with Scotland becoming a world power instead of the US and everyone having to play golf and eat haggis for dinner
• Kirk stops McCoy from preventing Duncan's assassination

(Hmm, this takes me back to my childhood days when we used to make up stuff like this all the time, record "plays" on cassette tapes...good times!)

Have fun!

James,

Thanks for writing (and for giving us permission to use your email on the blog) - the truth is that there is no way we could top the scenarios presented in your letter, particularly since our knowledge of "Star Trek" is pretty spotty. We'll try and get something together involving "The Next Generation" by the end of the week.

Yours,
The Sleep No More Crossover Fan Fiction Blog