The ‘Star Trek’ Sequel That Never Was: Hemsworth and Pine in a ‘Last Crusade’-Like Adventure

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Now, in an interview with Esquire, they have revealed what they had planned.Through a quirk of Starfleet technology, Kirk’s father, George, would have found himself hurtling forward through time and coming face-to-face with his fully grown son, played by Chris Pine, who, of course, is now the beloved captain of the Enterprise. “It was going to be a grand father-son space adventure—think ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ in space,” McKay said. “We were really thrilled about it.

We had an original villain and a really cool ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’-esque sci-fi idea at the core.”Payne even went as far as to cite “Trek” history as precedent for how this encounter could happen, referencing an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in which Picard and his crew investigate the wreckage of a Starfleet ship and find that the damaged transporter was in the midst of beaming up a passenger when it blew up, but still had enough power to sustain his life signal.

When the crew beams down the signal, the person that had been stuck in the signal for decades turns out to be none other than original Enterprise chief engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, played once again by James Doohan.

Payne says they were planning to use that episode as the basis for their film. “Our conceit was, ‘What if right before the Kelvin impacted with that huge mining ship, George Kirk had tried to beam himself over to his wife’s shuttle where his son, Jim Kirk, had just been born?