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Simon Pegg On Board To Co-Write Next Star Trek Film

Posted by timothy on from the scotty-gets-the-girl-and-saves-the-universe dept.

According to a report at The Verge, itself based on another at Deadline.com, Shaun of the Dead creator Simon Pegg is to co-write (along with Doug Jung) the next Star Trek film. Pegg is also signed on to play Scotty, as he did in both the Star Trek reboot and Into Darkness.

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  1. Sounds good to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The rest of the cast can become Borg and Scotty can kill them.

    1. Re:Sounds good to me by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm thinking what these movies need is even more action and less of that boring talking bullshit. You know, get back to their roots. Maybe a bunch of scenes too where characters get punched in the balls. Those are always cool. And tits, intergalactic weed, maybe a road trip. And a *TALKING DOG*! SHIT THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! A fucking TALKING DOG!

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  2. what about... by johnnys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nick Frost as Harry Mudd?

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  3. Re:Expect a lot of Star Wars jokes by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seth Rogen playing a Klingon

    Well, it would save a lot of money on makeup.

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  4. Plot synopsis by pla · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, in #12, they decided to save us the trouble of having #13 do "The Search for Kirk". So that puts #13 as...

    Kirk violates the prime directive again, resulting in yet another five-minute demotion and a random crewmember reassigned to a garbage scow for the Ganymede outpost.

    Suddenly an alien probe starts microwaving Earth's oceans. To save Earth, Starfleet instantly promotes Kirk to double-plus-admiral and gives him an experimental portable time travel module, which he uses to take the enterprise back to 1980s Earth.

    Once there, he must find and kill a 10 year old Benedict Cumberbatch before he invents the plague that wiped out the whales.

    In the second to last scene, wacky hijinks ensue as we learn that Uhura secretly hid a chihuahua in her purse before returning to the future, which due to tachyon flux has evolved into a catch-phrase spewing mascot with the power to float just out of reach.

    Finally, Kirk makes a speech (possibly as a voiceover) intended to beat some cheesy moral principle about the benefits of communism into the audience.

    Credits.