Simon Pegg’s Whinging About Khan In Star Terk 2 And We Like Saying The Name ‘Ricardo Montalban’

Simon Pegg – impressively dislikeable since his days in Spaced – is, of course, becoming something of a 'name' in Hollywood. Well done him. Basically, he's Rent-A-Nerd and he's doing very nicely out of it thankyouverymuch.

If you didn't know, Pegg starred as Scotty in the remake of Star Trek (the one with him from Heroes in it) and he's opening and closing his mouth about 'Star Trek 2? which is due out in the next couple of years.

Typically, he's complaining about it, furrowing his pale brow over the rumour that superhuman Khan will be the villain in the forthcoming sequel. Why?

Pegg is under the impression that Khan wouldn't work because fans have seen him "before". That'd be Simon Pegg who plays Scotty who, presumably, hasn't been seen before. Scotty from Star Trek which totally wasn't on the TV in the '60s with various film spin-offs before this rehash.

He said:

"I haven't heard the name Khan come up. Not to say it won't come up, but I have heard no mention of him whatsoever."

"He is a great villain. I don't want to say too much and then have to eat my words as I often do, but we've seen Khan in a Trek movie before. To see him again, how much value is there in that? I don't know."

Of course, he might be implying that you'd need an actor with a cooler name than Ricardo Montalban to star as Khan and, indeed, someone willing to wear a plastic torso as well as the finest named actor IN THE UNIVERSE.

But probably not. It's just Simon Pegg moaning about a stupid sci-fi franchise that totally isn't nearly as good as Star Wars.

Treklodites will no doubt already be aware that Pegg will once again be joined by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana. The rest of the world can read that sentence and go back to not caring one jot.

Now, what have we got to do to see a filthy slug disappear down someone's ear to make us all dry-heave? Even more frightening in German you say?

HUZZAH! *pukes in hand*