Undercover Brits: ‘Star Trek’s Anglophile Spacefarers
In honor of 'Star Trek Day' and the franchise’s 60th anniversary, we are rerunning our Top 10 British actors from across its many series.
Given the history of British explorers venturing into unknown waters and strange lands when they probably shouldn’t have, it’s no surprise that Brits are all over the Star Trek franchise – although the expanding franchise originally created by Gene Roddenberry often tried to correct the bad name that the Brits had given exploration for the entirety of their naval history.
Across multiple spin-offs, sequels, and prequels, Star Trek has grappled with the perils of adventure and the ethics of diplomacy and empire in the vast, untapped corners of the galaxy, and British actors have been frequently beamed in to lend the stories both gravitas and a sense of chilling danger. As Strange New Worlds continues its five-year mission with Season 3 currently airing on Paramount+, we fired up our long-range scanners to compile a list of the best British actors to have graced Star Trek’s starships and space stations.
(For the uninitiated, the chronology in release order is as follows: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, with 14 divisive movies in between.)
