8 Star Trek Heroes Who Would Make Great Jedi

Jadzia Dax of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a joined Trill: the Trill Jadzia shares her life with a slug-shaped symbiote named Dax who lives inside her. Their personality is a combination of the two, though Dax has lived for hundreds of years as a symbiote to different Trills. The combined discipline and genius level intellect of Star Trek’s Jadzia and the centuries of experience and wisdom from Dax would make for an excellent Jedi.

While I’m certain Jadzia would make an excellent Jedi, it would be interesting to learn what would happen with Dax’s subsequent hosts. If Jadzia were a Jedi would her successor, Ezri, necessarily become one?

When we first meet Saru in Star Trek: Discovery, he would likely not be the best candidate for Jedi training. While the officer still has his threat ganglia attached — which allow him to sense the coming of danger — fear is too oppressive a force in his life. Once those ganglia fall off and Saru learns he will survive their absence, he becomes a different person.

Star Trek’s more mature Saru would make a formidable Jedi. He’s physically powerful, brave, determined, and masters his emotions. Few captains, even among the Vulcans, express as much calmness of mind in the face of danger as Saru.

Just like the case of Saru, it would take Worf a while before he’d be ready to wield the Force. It would take until the emergence of the older Worf in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard before he’d make an effective Jedi. While he usually kept his more volatile emotions in check, the Klingon suffered far too many violent outbursts in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to be an acceptable student of Yoda.

But the Worf who, in Star Trek: Picard‘s “Imposters,” solves the problem of hunting down a crime lord by meditating in the middle of the street? That guy reminds me of Qui-Gon Jinn sitting serenely moments before his final duel with Darth Maul. That guy could be a Jedi.

It isn’t that Vulcans don’t have emotions, they have them; it’s that they have learned to master and suppress them. That’s one reason why Star Trek’s Spock would make an excellent Jedi. The other reason has to do with what separates Spock from the rest of his father’s people.

The fact that Vulcans, in fact, do possess powerful emotions is something they don’t necessarily deny, but it certainly isn’t something they like to acknowledge. Should they seek to seduce a Vulcan Jedi to the dark side, a Sith Lord could use this to their advantage; suppressed emotions, craving an outlet, get that much wilder once they break free.

This is why of all of Star Trek’s Vulcans, Spock may very well be the best choice for a Jedi. Because of his half-human heritage, Spock has long since learned to acknowledge and accept a more emotional side. A Sith would find him impossible to turn.

Yes, sure there was the whole losing his cool and trying to sacrifice everything and everyone to wipe out the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact, but we all have our off days and otherwise Jean-Luc Picard would make an excellent Jedi. Composed, courageous, and principled, Picard would give Obi-Wan a run for his money.

As a member of the Qowat Milat, Elnor already has two advantages over most Star Trek heroes when it comes to becoming a Jedi: he’s already a master at hand-to-hand combat as well as a member of a kinda/sorta religious group. He’s got the discipline and the skills, he just needs the transfer to Star Wars.

Hemmer is the first of the Star Trek heroes I’ve picked for Jedi who fall more on the engineering side of things, but what we learn about him in the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds makes him a great candidate. His fatalistic outlook meshes with the champions of Star Wars, as does his willingness to sacrifice himself for the greater good, as he does in “All Those Who Wander.”

Christopher Pike, of multiple Star Trek projects, was already a not-bad candidate for Jedi training, but what made him a much better pick were his experiences in Star Trek: Discovery‘s Season 2. Being shown the future that awaits him, of being crippled by an accident, makes him face the same thing that every Jedi must learn: that we are all bound to the will of the Force.