Doctor Who and Star Trek are Bringing Friendship to San Diego Comic-Con

Comic-Con is wherever radical of each fandoms tin travel together, including the stars and creatives of large genre shows brushing shoulders astatine panels. San Diego Comic-Con’s a fewer weeks away, and the docket for the yearly normal volition unite the showrunners down Star Trek and Doctor Who—Alex Kurtzman and Russell T. Davies–to speech store for anyone who’ll listen.

The 2 men volition header a sheet for SDCC’s “Friendship is Universal” acquisition connected Saturday, July 27 up of International Friendship Day connected July 30. The purpose is for the chat to bring unneurotic fans of either (or both) franchises and foster a greater consciousness of assemblage betwixt them. Trek and Who are besides going to beryllium the stars of a assemblage acquisition with archetypal props and costumes from some series, and there’ll beryllium a peculiar Doctor Who x Star Trek poster from creator Dusty Abell fixed to attendeees of Kurtzman and Davies’ panel. (Like relationship bracelets? They’ll beryllium fixed distant astatine the event!)

Doctor Who and Star Trek have been successful each other’s orbits for a agelong time. Along with their respective debuts successful the mid-60s, they’ve tackled akin themes of race, gender, and war, referenced each other, and go multimedia giants. They adjacent crossed implicit successful the pages of IDW’s Trek comics backmost successful 2012, and Davies spoke successful 2009 astir his desires to bash a TV crossover betwixt them. His dreams died erstwhile Star Trek pivoted to movie with the reboot movies, and it doesn’t look similar that could hap these days. But the sheet whitethorn beryllium worthwhile, if lone to spot Davies and Kurtzman speech astir their approaches to the worldly and to marque a transportation with idiosyncratic other successful the crowd.

The “Friendship is Universal” sheet volition tally connected Saturday, July 27 5:30-6:30 p.m. PT successful country 6A. The larger assemblage volition instrumentality spot astatine 226 and 230 5th Avenue successful the Gaslamp for each of San Diego Comic-Con.

[via Variety]

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