Simon Pegg Offers Insight Into Quentin Tarantino’s Unmade Star Trek Movie

Modern Star Trek star Simon Pegg gives fans some major insight into Quentin Tarantino’s canceled franchise film.

Per Collider, Pegg discussed the description of the film’s script that he received from producer Lindsey Weber and the legendary J.J. Abrams. “That was what we call in the business bats–t crazy,” Pegg said. “It was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be… I think it would have been such an incredible sort of curio to see Star Trek through his lens. I don’t know how it would have gone over with the fans, but it certainly would have been an interesting thing.”

Talks of Tarantino’s Star Trek film have floated around the industry for the better part of a decade. Back in 2018, The Boys star Karl Urban, who portrayed Doctor McCoy in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek feature film series, said at the time, “You shouldn’t worry that it is going to be full of obscenity and stuff. He wants an R-rating to really make those beats of consequence land,” confirming that Tarantino’s vision for the Star Trek universe would have been as grim and gritty as fans have come to expect from the auteur’s body of work.

Unfortunately for fans, it was confirmed in 2024 that Tarantino would not be making his planned Star Trek film. Tarantino himself said, “It’s never going to happen,” noting that social media had long been abuzz with rumors and misinformation about the project. Tarantino addd, “Consequently… if you’re some sort of a transient celebrity reporter of some kind, okay, if you hear Quentin is going to make a Star Trek movie… The thing is, they can say anything. ‘Oh, Quentin is going to cast Tom Cruise, it’s for sure, Quentin is going to cast Tom Cruise as The Movie Critic.’ Or, ‘Quentin is going to cast Tom Cruise as Captain Kirk.'”

What’s Next for Star Trek Movies and TV?

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Over the past few years, series such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks have helped push the franchise to new heights that it hasn’t experienced for years. This renewed sense of overwhelming popularity has paved the way not just for further Star Trek productions, but for more experimental takes on the franchise within them.

Fans are currently staring down another five episodes to come in Strange New Worlds‘ third season, all while looking forward to things to come when Season 4 premieres in 2026. Among the most exciting aspects of the show that fans are waiting in eager anticipation of is one episode in particular that will see the crew of the Enterprise portrayed not by the show’s iconic stars, but by puppet versions of them instead. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Paul Wesley, who portrays a young Captain James T. Kirk on the show, said of the episode, “I’m not in that episode, unfortunately, so I can’t speak to it. But I have seen some stuff, and it is just pure brilliance. I am jealous that I’m not in it, actually.”

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Gene Roddenberry

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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Star Trek: Nemesis

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William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula

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