(Left) Simon Pegg in Star Trek Into Darkness (Right) Quentin Tarantino directing the Hateful Eight Paramount/The Weinstein Company

Simon Pegg Calls Quentin Tarantino’s Unmade STAR TREK Film 'Crazy'

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Eric Diaz | Last updated Aug 13, 2025 11:01 AM ET

The concept of a Quentin Tarantino-directed Star Trek movie is one that still has us wishing we could visit the parallel timeline where it exists. Even though most Trek fans still know almost nothing concrete about the proposed plot. Although, some rumors suggest it drew heavy inspiration from the classic Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action.” That’s the one where the Enterprise crew beams down to a planet that mimics the Chicago mobs of the 1920s. One of the stars of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek trilogy of films, Simon Pegg, who plays Chief Engineer Scott, said he never read the script. However, J.J. Abrams gave him a full rundown of the plot. Pegg’s description of the story to Collider was as follows:

That was what we call in the business bats--- crazy. 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.

We all know Tarantino loves movies about violent, gun-toting criminals. So it makes sense he would base his film around an episode where the Enterprise crew pretend to be that. And in a 1920s setting, no less. We also know that QT loves period pieces set in the early half of the 20th century as much as mafia hitmen. Suddenly, all the rumors make sense. Sadly, Tarantino decided he didn’t want his tenth (and final?) film as director to be based on someone else’s IP. Which we can fully understand.

Simon Pegg doesn’t know any more about a proposed fourth Star Trek feature. A movie that has been in development hell for almost a decade now. Pegg suggests that now that the Skydance/Paramount merger is done, a fourth Kelvin timeline feature may happen. But with other actors now playing those characters on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, is there that much mainstream appeal left to see competing versions of Kirk, Scotty, and the rest? It seems more likely Paramount will continue the Kelvin timeline with a Star Trek: The Next Generation big screen reboot. One thing’s for sure, however: a decade is the longest we’ve been without a Star Trek film since the series began in 1979. We’ve got to get something soon.

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