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The wildest Star Trek movie might be one that was never filmed.

Quentin Tarantino wrote a Star Trek script for Paramount, and the studio was interested in moving forward with it. Unfortunately, the poor box office performance of Star Trek Beyond caused Paramount to pause future projects while they figured out what to do with the franchise. Tarantino’s Star Trek script became a casualty of this new strategy. 

Simon Pegg, who played Scotty in the J.J. Abrams Trek films, is disappointed that the Tarantino script was never filmed.

“That was what we call in the business 'batshit crazy,'” Pegg says during a panel at Fan Expo Boston 2025. I"t was everything you would expect a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek script to be.”

“I didn’t read it, but it was described to me,” Pegg clarifies. “Lindsey [Weber], our producer, and J.J. Abrams had read it as well. That would have been amazing. 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.”

It’s been reported that Tarantino’s script would’ve found the Enterprise crew on 1930s Earth, where they would’ve encountered gangsters. Some described the script as a feature film version of the Star Trek (original series) episode ‘A Piece of the Action.’ Pegg didn’t go into detail about the story, but he hopes that Paramount will revisit it now that they’re on the other side of their corporate merger.

“I’m hoping now that David Ellison is high up at Paramount, now that the merger happened, and David has always been a big supporter of the Kelvin timeline, so who knows. Maybe we’ll get to make another one.”

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