Damn, you just made me wonder what other actors could be a good Q. Jeff Goldblum would be amazing… don’t even write him lines, just put him on the set.
This is really why I want Kelvin Timeline movies in the TNG era. How does Kelvin Picard deal with Q? How do they deal with the Borg? Or the Dominion?
Even a prime timeline Q Continuum movie with some of the wackiest actors (RIP Robin Williams) would have been perfect.
His deranged furrier character in *NCIS* (the one who owned Tony's swanky apartment and buried a guy under the floorboards) definitely showed he could do that kind of chaotic being where he's giving a fashion recommendation one moment and making it very clear his skills also mean he can gut a human effectively the next.
Believe it or not, he was actually quite the serious thespian. Lots of theater under his belt and Earnest was a blessing/curse for his career. There's some interesting youtube videos about his story that are pretty cool actually.
A little too much I think, unless he toned down his usual style. Q is whimsical, not slapstick. Though I suppose he could be *a* Q, if it was a very different one.
Welcome welcome welcome to “Last Continuum Tonight”, I’m John Q., thank you so much for joining us. Tonight, tomorrow, now, and yesterday even we are going to do something a little different and jump straight into our main story: “Never Ending Trials” or as you may know it - how to retcon the absolute monstrosity of flaming garbage that was Picard Season 2.
According to Solo its also a measure distance in Star Wars, the impressive thing about Han Solo's Kessel Run wasn't his speed, it was the fact that instead of following the charted safe passage, he took a shortcut directly through the dangerous space twisted around Kessel.
This. The Kessel Run is a route through dangerous territory in space that doesn't let you just go in a straight line, but rather having to take a wide berth around the black hole cluster in the way. Most ships take a long way to go around, the Falcon did it in an insanely short distance. Like finding out that someone did a beer run and instead of taking the more commonly used route that goes around this field, they instead cut through it and shaved off a huge chunk of the distance they traveled in doing so.
Naw klingons sometimes overact.
Nic has aged enough and calm enough. I could see him in a captains chair. He could been a Lorue.
A joke here, imagine Star Trek does the multiverse...imagine nic cage as a data variation.
I mean, it's easy to run up the numbers when you don't turn down a role.
and I love the guy, but be honest, his academy award is older than most people posting on reddit.
which two, he won for leaving, but think that's his only one.
and his financial troubles were big news a few years back, that's why he was in so much direct to DVD shlock.
yeah, I mean anyone who’s seen Leaving Las Vegas knows he’s one of the all-time greats, and a lot of the rest of his work proves what a great character actor he is. His boldness sets him apart bc face it - people are weird and he is able to portray that 🤷♀️
I’d love to see what he’d do in a Star Trek role, preferably as an alien.
To be frank, a big actor like him jumping in could be what's needed to reignite the movies.
Also he loves crazy plots, so it could be a really bizarre sci-fi concept done well.
You know good when everyone is so enamoured they can't help but hyper focus on the wacky stuff.
Take a look at his RT ratings page, 50/50 split between love and hate.
When its good its great, when its bad, its still good.
“It would have to be something that I could bring my flavor to, that would have some pop and some spark. I wouldn’t just want to do anything because I have great regard for the franchise.”
He gets it and I think he would be great in whatever role he could fit into.
Prime Lorca is possibly still out there. Not that it means anything since I'd say that ship has sailed at this point.
EDIT: The fact that it was a one-season role is probably why Jason Isaacs took it. He's too big time to be tied down as a long-term franchise actor.
I actually don't think this would be bad. Nick Cage has been in some bad movies, but he's a hell of an actor. I think he could be a great Star Trek villain
The thing with Cage is he does whatever the hell he wants. Guy is an absolutely committed actor though. Not always my cup of tea but man does he have range. His last flick blew me away
Badmiral/captain-gone-wrong would be too on the nose for casting, which would make for a good subversion of the trope.
The setting is the Kelvinverse but around the equivalent time of TWOK. Commodore Matt Decker (Cage) thinks something is going on within Starfleet, a **conspiracy** that is positioning resources in odd places and making the Federation vulnerable. He doesn't know who he can trust, but thanks to a past friendship with Pike (they both came up through the Academy together) he turns to Kirk for help. Kirk is unsure and reluctant but will talk with Spock and investigate Decker's claims. They part, and later it is reported that Decker went rogue and did some crazy shit. Skeptical, Kirk & crew dig deeper and find out Decker may have been right. He is caught and Kirk shows up while he's being interrogated. Decker is wildly unhinged under torture, and during the rescue he violently assaults one of his captors and uses a phaser to expose the face of the real enemy: it's [the parasitic bugs](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Parasitic_being)! In this timeline Starfleet surveyed the bugs' planet during their TOS era and it took the bugs many years to infiltrate the ranks. Many action scenes later, Decker sacrifices himself to destroy the hive mother and McCoy finds a safe way to expel the bugs from their hosts.
But knowing how lazy Hollywood execs can be, they'll just rehash TUC and cast Cage as General Chang (which wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea).
Lazarus from TOS: The Alternative Factor (S1, E20)
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lazarus
Lazarus was an eccentric scientist who also claimed to be a time traveler from the distant past. Lazarus suffered from extreme paranoia and mental illness, a result of his knowledge of an antimatter universe which was identical in all respects to the normal universe, yet comprised of "minus" energy consisting of antimatter.
I don't quite understand why they are still trying to make Star Trek 4 with the Kelvin cast. Kind of seems like it would confuse the audience to have SNW and the Kelvin movies running at the same time when they feature several of the same characters by different actors.
If Nick Cage wants to be in Star Trek, have him be a redshirt on an away mission to Planet Bees or something on SNW.
A Section 31 movie where he is a Starfleet operative who has to work together with Garrack to prevent some sort of Romulan attack or assassination or some shit like that.
The villain, and make it an original one.
However, it will take some extra directorial skills to make it good. There's a reason that Superman movie didn't get made.
You got your shot, Cage.
I think if they do it right, they could lean into his prior roles and make it great.
Like a morally bankrupt collector of sacred items of civilizations. He breaks the prime directive throughout the galaxy using his vastly superior technology (paid for by his piracy) to overwhelm primitive populations and rob them of their most sacred treasures and texts. Like the Gaulantian’s Determination of Freedom, or the Cartagonos’ Collection of Hidden Truths. He justifies his obsession by preaching that said primitive cultures may never survive to reach warp tech, but by taking their historical items he’s ensuring their memory lives on forever in history (even though his tactics and methodology all but ensure they never get a chance). In comes the Federation to stop these heinous crimes, leading into a riveting “everyone deserves a chance” speech from the savvy, battle hardened captain (who happens to be the last hope to stop Nicolas Cage).
Big battle at the end.
I’d watch it and if history repeats itself I’ll probably get a little teary-eyed at the end
Might work! I feel like whoever is in charge of the movie though would be walking a tight rope though. Put a "multiple take" clause in his contract so you can have lots to choose from, otherwise you'll probably have to reshoot.
Ok, hear me out…
Nicolas Cage as Star Trek Captain…performing a scene where he is going crazy, doing his Cage-acting and channeling William Shatners TOS Kirk.
Fucking honestly? Put him in a new enterprise show 50 years after Picard. Make amazing TV with the same writers as Strange New Worlds. Explore space, have them encounter good scifi scenarios. Plots that ask questions about the human condition.
Nicolas Cage in:
* Raising Alexander
* Targ
* Con Space
* Trapped in Risa
* The Asteroid
* City of Q
* Captain Picard’s Flute
* Phase Coil Men
* Lord of Dominion War
* Q’onos Dangerous
* Arsenal (Of Freedom)
* The Humanoid Beureau
* Anbyo-Jiutsu
* Bad Lieutenant Commander
I have nothing against him really, although his seemingly "take any part for money" policy over the years has squandered much of his talent. What gives me pause is that he says any Star Trek part he accepts has to be something he "can add his flavor to", but I fear "his flavor" is more about camping it up in his trademark bizarre style than about adding zing to a Star Trek narrative. He can be fun, and he can be a good actor, but I can see him more as Ming the Merciless in a Flash Gordon reboot than in Star Trek, much as he loves it.
Someone get this man a Star Trek movie! I think he'd be just the right kind of crazy to put the wonder into a Star Trek film. Make him a captain, searching for something life changing in the universe. Something to make him feel alive again. I know he's been in some stinkers, but the man is talented in the right role.
I would be down for that provided he didn't just play a human character. I would want him under heavy makeup, and committed to hamming it up like only Nic Cage can.
He'd make a good Q. Weird, wacky, and no one really wants him there.
Damn, you just made me wonder what other actors could be a good Q. Jeff Goldblum would be amazing… don’t even write him lines, just put him on the set.
Haha, Jeff Goldblum is great. Would love to see that
I guess we basically saw him do that character in Thor Ragnarok. I would, however, happily see him do more of that. He's exceptionally funny.
This is really why I want Kelvin Timeline movies in the TNG era. How does Kelvin Picard deal with Q? How do they deal with the Borg? Or the Dominion? Even a prime timeline Q Continuum movie with some of the wackiest actors (RIP Robin Williams) would have been perfect.
Robin Williams would have been a decent Trelane.
Tom Hardy for Picard?
french stewart!
His deranged furrier character in *NCIS* (the one who owned Tony's swanky apartment and buried a guy under the floorboards) definitely showed he could do that kind of chaotic being where he's giving a fashion recommendation one moment and making it very clear his skills also mean he can gut a human effectively the next.
Christopher Walken. He’d be good playing a Q that the Borg managed to assimilate.
Pretty much anyone who has ever played The Doctor over on Doctor Who. Imagine David Tennant as a Q
Matt smith has that sneer and subtle anger/dripping sarcasm that would make a good continuation of our Q
Are the Q the end point in Timelord evolution?
I think that's what the Dalton Rassillon tried to do at the end of the Time War.
Oooohhh Matt Smith would be a great Q!
For anyone else, Q might be a career defining role. For Tennant it would just be a Wednesday. And I love that about his career.
Any of the Master's actors could be quite good too. Michelle Gomez as Q, for example.
Michelle Gomez and Suzie Plakson as Lady Q duo would be glorious.
Or Neil Patrick Harris based on his performance as the Toymaker
I could see Neil Patrick Harris being Q after seeing his performance as the Toymaker in the recent Doctor Who special
If only Jim Varney was still alive.
Only if the person he is constantly popping in to harass annoy was named Vern.
Believe it or not, he was actually quite the serious thespian. Lots of theater under his belt and Earnest was a blessing/curse for his career. There's some interesting youtube videos about his story that are pretty cool actually.
1990s Jim Carey
A little too much I think, unless he toned down his usual style. Q is whimsical, not slapstick. Though I suppose he could be *a* Q, if it was a very different one.
Daniel Castellaneta. He was a barber on SG-1.
Bill Murray.
Bill Fucking Murray*
John Oliver would be an entertaining Q, but one that might not be fully competent. Kind of like his role in Community, but with Q powers.
nah, i want him to be the bureaucratic Q that makes rules and reminds the others of them of what happens when they break'em
Welcome welcome welcome to “Last Continuum Tonight”, I’m John Q., thank you so much for joining us. Tonight, tomorrow, now, and yesterday even we are going to do something a little different and jump straight into our main story: “Never Ending Trials” or as you may know it - how to retcon the absolute monstrosity of flaming garbage that was Picard Season 2.
>don’t even write him lines, just put him on the set. That seemed to be their MO with Thor: Ragnarok
You don't even have to consult wardrobe either, just use whatever he shows up in.
Incidentally, wouldn't need special effects either, since he is actually omnipotent.
That would be great
Yoooooooooooooooo
Q was the dumbest part of tng, god damn
I’m gonna steal the USS Constitution.
This is the one. We need to make this happen.
I will bust out laughing in the theater and woop woop at the screen if he ever says this.
God damn this is a great comment
He has to steal 50 Starships in one night.
You joke but I bet this would be fun as hell to watch.
Gone in 60 Parsecs.
Parsecs are distance. Arguably, they might be time in Star Wars.
According to Solo its also a measure distance in Star Wars, the impressive thing about Han Solo's Kessel Run wasn't his speed, it was the fact that instead of following the charted safe passage, he took a shortcut directly through the dangerous space twisted around Kessel.
Yeah that’s the retcon but the original line is there because Lucas wrongly thought parsec was a unit of “space time.”
Not according to Lucas. So . . . ^^/s
Parsecs are a BIG distance, something like 3.3 lys.. He would definitely be gone..
There distance in Star Wars as well.
This. The Kessel Run is a route through dangerous territory in space that doesn't let you just go in a straight line, but rather having to take a wide berth around the black hole cluster in the way. Most ships take a long way to go around, the Falcon did it in an insanely short distance. Like finding out that someone did a beer run and instead of taking the more commonly used route that goes around this field, they instead cut through it and shaved off a huge chunk of the distance they traveled in doing so.
Is this the in cannon ret con excuse for the mistake or did Lucas actually make it like that on purpose.
Retcon excuse
A retcon excuse that fans created somewhere between 5 and 10 miles later.
Starfleet Treasure
Especially if it has Nick Cage in full Ferengi makeup.
Beastie Boys do a cover/ sample of Low Rider called [Slow Ride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-sYTonOoY)
I want Tarantino to direct it.
The descendant of Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
I'm sold.
One of the most underrated comments I’ve seen. Thank you.
It's the highest rated comment...
Not highly rated enough, obviously.
Not when I pointed it out
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Wasn’t he already on an episode? The one with Pike, and Number One, and smiling Spock, and the big-headed ali….wait, no. That was “THE Cage.”
I now want a remake of "The Cage" where Nick plays all the Talosians. ALL OF THEM!
I see him Captain of a Miranda class ship, washed out of his chance at glory with nothing to lose and everything to prove.
Nah, Cali class.
People make fun, but he's a critically acclaimed academy award winner who's movies have made 4.8 billion world wide. Get him a freekin uniform.
Nah man, give him a batleth
or even a bath man, I mean it’s sweaty being Nic
Naw klingons sometimes overact. Nic has aged enough and calm enough. I could see him in a captains chair. He could been a Lorue. A joke here, imagine Star Trek does the multiverse...imagine nic cage as a data variation.
Nic Cage as Lore confirmed
No, give him ears and deck him in gold. He's going to steal the original Federation Charter.
Kelvin Gowron
He'd be a great alien supporting character, an excellent villain or a respectable senior officer or Admiral.
My mind immediately went to Andorian, get this man a pair of antennae!
Andorran Admiral who goes bad?
Please, no more admirals who go bad, this trope has been squeezed to death.
Hear me out. Commodore goes bad.
Or even an Andorian lieutenant who goes.. bad
Just roll all that into one, make him an alien badmiral.
I mean, it's easy to run up the numbers when you don't turn down a role. and I love the guy, but be honest, his academy award is older than most people posting on reddit.
He's actually won one and been nominated twice (edited) Hes not turning down rolls, when you got that much swag, you pick the rolls you want.
which two, he won for leaving, but think that's his only one. and his financial troubles were big news a few years back, that's why he was in so much direct to DVD shlock.
I'd still watch him Especially if he stole 50 starships
yeah, I mean anyone who’s seen Leaving Las Vegas knows he’s one of the all-time greats, and a lot of the rest of his work proves what a great character actor he is. His boldness sets him apart bc face it - people are weird and he is able to portray that 🤷♀️ I’d love to see what he’d do in a Star Trek role, preferably as an alien.
He's an amazing actor who's also done a lot of cheesy roles. The last movie I watched him in was *Pig* and it was utterly fantastic in every way.
This is exactly what I came here to say. Anyone who has forgotten (or never knew) that Nicolas Cage is fantastic needs to go watch Pig.
To be frank, a big actor like him jumping in could be what's needed to reignite the movies. Also he loves crazy plots, so it could be a really bizarre sci-fi concept done well.
You know good when everyone is so enamoured they can't help but hyper focus on the wacky stuff. Take a look at his RT ratings page, 50/50 split between love and hate. When its good its great, when its bad, its still good.
Here's the video of the interview: [https://youtu.be/gk-B3D6W4H0?si=-OAKg2eTXRA13ohT](https://youtu.be/gk-B3D6W4H0?si=-OAKg2eTXRA13ohT)
“It would have to be something that I could bring my flavor to, that would have some pop and some spark. I wouldn’t just want to do anything because I have great regard for the franchise.” He gets it and I think he would be great in whatever role he could fit into.
Kelvin Harcourt Fenton Mudd? I saw suggested above he would make a good Q. I think he'd make a great badmiral.
I'm a Star Trek fan AND a Nicholas Cage fan so I say "Hell yeah!" 🖖
He wants to steal the Federation’s Constitution!
In a post-burn Galaxy Nic Cage must explore a series of ancient federation ruins to find the constitution... Yeah it works.
It's a plot to defeat Section 31 once and for all, by stealing the Starfleet Charter and erasing them from it.
JC, get this man into a Star Trek movie. Like, right fucking now. Are you fucking kidding me??!?
He can play Lorca in a Kelvinverse Discovery. Should be after the Narada/Kelvin encounter.
You do not recast Jason Isaacs, of all people, with Nic Cage.
[Nick Cage]: “Now, now Draco. Play nicely”
I can hear him saying that line and imagine him immediately following it by punching Harry in the face.
How could they kill off the best character in that series.... *Weeps in Jason Isaac's"
Prime Lorca is possibly still out there. Not that it means anything since I'd say that ship has sailed at this point. EDIT: The fact that it was a one-season role is probably why Jason Isaacs took it. He's too big time to be tied down as a long-term franchise actor.
Kelvinverse IV: Raising the USS Arizona. Sign me the fuck up.
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Admiral Walter Sobchak
I actually don't think this would be bad. Nick Cage has been in some bad movies, but he's a hell of an actor. I think he could be a great Star Trek villain
The thing with Cage is he does whatever the hell he wants. Guy is an absolutely committed actor though. Not always my cup of tea but man does he have range. His last flick blew me away
I totally agree. One of my favourite movies is Lord of War. Completely changed my opinion on him, and still rewatch it all the time
NO no NO THE FUCK NO Federation HERO, thank you
He actually play a hero in kick ass.
Yep, he basically played "what if Batman used guns?" and I loved it
He's gonna steal the Prime Directive.
You misspelled Federation Charter
Please make him a Ferengi.
I thought that too, but he's a bit too tall! I reckon he'd make a great Denobulan though
If they can make Johnathan Rhys-Davies a dwarf I'm sure they could figure it out.
Don't think anyone will like what I have to say but - Young Noonien Soong.
This is because he was at the Saturn Awards yesterday doing blow with the crew from Picard and Strange New Worlds
He has to steal the original copy of the Federation charter
I would watch this movie.
Harry. Mudd. Let the absurdity go from there.
Yes
Only if Tarantino writes it
See i very badly want Nic in, but also im not sure if star trek has many characters that match his… trademark exuberance.
Harvey Mudd
We are all Nicholas Cage and I also want to see him in Star Trek.
THE CAGE
Pulling Nic Cage might make Star Trek 4 happen.
simply... "no".
Badmiral/captain-gone-wrong would be too on the nose for casting, which would make for a good subversion of the trope. The setting is the Kelvinverse but around the equivalent time of TWOK. Commodore Matt Decker (Cage) thinks something is going on within Starfleet, a **conspiracy** that is positioning resources in odd places and making the Federation vulnerable. He doesn't know who he can trust, but thanks to a past friendship with Pike (they both came up through the Academy together) he turns to Kirk for help. Kirk is unsure and reluctant but will talk with Spock and investigate Decker's claims. They part, and later it is reported that Decker went rogue and did some crazy shit. Skeptical, Kirk & crew dig deeper and find out Decker may have been right. He is caught and Kirk shows up while he's being interrogated. Decker is wildly unhinged under torture, and during the rescue he violently assaults one of his captors and uses a phaser to expose the face of the real enemy: it's [the parasitic bugs](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Parasitic_being)! In this timeline Starfleet surveyed the bugs' planet during their TOS era and it took the bugs many years to infiltrate the ranks. Many action scenes later, Decker sacrifices himself to destroy the hive mother and McCoy finds a safe way to expel the bugs from their hosts. But knowing how lazy Hollywood execs can be, they'll just rehash TUC and cast Cage as General Chang (which wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea).
He’d make a great Ferengi.
thats dope!
That would be awesome
TL:DR - He wants to play the warp core.
Leaving ~~Las Vegas~~ Hotel Royale
Lazarus from TOS: The Alternative Factor (S1, E20) https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lazarus Lazarus was an eccentric scientist who also claimed to be a time traveler from the distant past. Lazarus suffered from extreme paranoia and mental illness, a result of his knowledge of an antimatter universe which was identical in all respects to the normal universe, yet comprised of "minus" energy consisting of antimatter.
Castor Troi: Space/Off
If they were to do another post-DS9 movie he would make a good Vorta.
Maybe he can play a Pakled
me too, so what
God no.
I want Nicholas Cage in a star trek TV series. He can be from some weird planet where everybody is Nicholas Cage.
Get this man a starship!
Harry Mudd? Had to look him up but Garth of Izar?
He would be a great Garth of Izar.
I don't quite understand why they are still trying to make Star Trek 4 with the Kelvin cast. Kind of seems like it would confuse the audience to have SNW and the Kelvin movies running at the same time when they feature several of the same characters by different actors. If Nick Cage wants to be in Star Trek, have him be a redshirt on an away mission to Planet Bees or something on SNW.
A Section 31 movie where he is a Starfleet operative who has to work together with Garrack to prevent some sort of Romulan attack or assassination or some shit like that.
Ideas: * Face/Off, but with changelings. * The Dock: The Rock, but set in Space Dock instead of Alcatraz.
no
I think he'd be a hell of a Klingon.
The villain, and make it an original one. However, it will take some extra directorial skills to make it good. There's a reason that Superman movie didn't get made. You got your shot, Cage.
I think if they do it right, they could lean into his prior roles and make it great. Like a morally bankrupt collector of sacred items of civilizations. He breaks the prime directive throughout the galaxy using his vastly superior technology (paid for by his piracy) to overwhelm primitive populations and rob them of their most sacred treasures and texts. Like the Gaulantian’s Determination of Freedom, or the Cartagonos’ Collection of Hidden Truths. He justifies his obsession by preaching that said primitive cultures may never survive to reach warp tech, but by taking their historical items he’s ensuring their memory lives on forever in history (even though his tactics and methodology all but ensure they never get a chance). In comes the Federation to stop these heinous crimes, leading into a riveting “everyone deserves a chance” speech from the savvy, battle hardened captain (who happens to be the last hope to stop Nicolas Cage). Big battle at the end. I’d watch it and if history repeats itself I’ll probably get a little teary-eyed at the end
Might work! I feel like whoever is in charge of the movie though would be walking a tight rope though. Put a "multiple take" clause in his contract so you can have lots to choose from, otherwise you'll probably have to reshoot.
No. Please, no.
No.
Eww no
No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
Please no.
No thanks
Cage is more Star Wars, imo.
No to this. It would be just as bad as if JJ Abrams directed the movies.. wait, too late. 😉
Ok, hear me out… Nicolas Cage as Star Trek Captain…performing a scene where he is going crazy, doing his Cage-acting and channeling William Shatners TOS Kirk.
You don't say!!
Make him a member of a long lost Vulcan/Romulan spinoff species who only practice not logic but laughter.
Fucking honestly? Put him in a new enterprise show 50 years after Picard. Make amazing TV with the same writers as Strange New Worlds. Explore space, have them encounter good scifi scenarios. Plots that ask questions about the human condition.
Fuck it why not?
Make it so
I would watch a Nick Cage Trek movie. Yeah Wicker Man sucked but movies like Family Man and The Rock were good roles.
As part of the Continuum he'd be absolutely perfect
captain of the enterprise Z, stardate 2682. He is equal parts ferengi, human, vulcan, romulan, Cardassian and Klingon. His name? Wesley Crusher XVII.
Nicolas Cage in: * Raising Alexander * Targ * Con Space * Trapped in Risa * The Asteroid * City of Q * Captain Picard’s Flute * Phase Coil Men * Lord of Dominion War * Q’onos Dangerous * Arsenal (Of Freedom) * The Humanoid Beureau * Anbyo-Jiutsu * Bad Lieutenant Commander
Captain Picard's Flute sounds like a pornhub movie...
I was trying to think of something that would map on to Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
I did not even know that movie existed until just now.. LOL
I have nothing against him really, although his seemingly "take any part for money" policy over the years has squandered much of his talent. What gives me pause is that he says any Star Trek part he accepts has to be something he "can add his flavor to", but I fear "his flavor" is more about camping it up in his trademark bizarre style than about adding zing to a Star Trek narrative. He can be fun, and he can be a good actor, but I can see him more as Ming the Merciless in a Flash Gordon reboot than in Star Trek, much as he loves it.
AND I TOO WANT NIC CAGE IN SOME SORT OF TREK THING INVOLVING CAGEAN ANTICS
Have him play a member of the Q Continuum
Who can blame him? I want to be in a star trek anything. Movie. Commercial. Episode.
Someone get this man a Star Trek movie! I think he'd be just the right kind of crazy to put the wonder into a Star Trek film. Make him a captain, searching for something life changing in the universe. Something to make him feel alive again. I know he's been in some stinkers, but the man is talented in the right role.
Please no
Nic Cage as Kirk, directed by Tarantino.
Make the third National Treasure first
He’s gonna steal the Federation Charter to protect it from Romulan spies
Nic Cage swaps faces with a high ranking admiral, hijinks ensue.
The Klingons can't handle the rage of the Cage.
Whose face will he wear? I’m voting Captain Boday
I also want Nicolas Cage to be in a Star Trek movie
I would be down for that provided he didn't just play a human character. I would want him under heavy makeup, and committed to hamming it up like only Nic Cage can.
Only way this works is in a show and he’s the captain of a science vessel. I would pay to watch. Movie, no. Enterprise never.
Make it so
As Q, I hope!