Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto starred in the most recent three 'Star Trek' movies, produced between 2009 and 2016
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- Alec Baldwin said he once pitched studio executives on rebooting the Star Trek franchise with a more adult audience in mind
- Baldwin did not specify when he pitched the idea, but he said it would have included “a ton of sex”
- The beloved science-fiction franchise last released a movie with 2016’s Star Trek Beyond
Alec Baldwin is reflecting on long-abandoned plans for an R-rated version of Star Trek he once pitched to studio executives.
The actor, 67, recounted his brief efforts to make a more adult version of the classic science-fiction franchise during his Thursday, Feb. 26, live taping of his podcast Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin at On Air Fest in Brooklyn, New York, with the episode's guest, musician Hrishikesh Hirway. He admitted it was his "worst pitch" idea ever.
"I say to these guys, 'I want to do Star Trek, but an R-rated Star Trek. There's a ton of sex and s—. Everyone is having sex in the space shuttle,' " Baldwin recalled.
The actor said he suggested that he play "the Captain," as in Star Trek's Capt. James T. Kirk, though he explained that his idea for a story set in the franchise "doesn't make any sense."
"We're in the spaceship, the command center, just me and her and I put a chip in her head," he said, of a theoretical plot line involving a romance between his character and another. "Who the f— knows what that means, right? I just love it. You can do anything. … I'm telling this to these guys at Sony or something and they're looking at me going, 'No, we're never doing that.'"
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Star Trek famously began as a television series in the 1960s, with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in the series' lead roles as Kirk and Spock.
The series has undergone several reboots and restructures over the decades and was most recently rebooted with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto for three movies between 2009 and 2016.
Baldwin did not specify when he pitched his own idea for the Star Trek franchise. Efforts to continue the series with feature-length films have repeatedly stalled in recent years, however, Variety reported in November 2025 that Paramount had "moved on" from the cast from the Pine-starring reboot as it works toward producing a new entry.
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Baldwin most recently appeared on the big screen in the 2024 movies Crescent City and Clear Cut. He is next expected to appear as a fictionalized version of himself in the comedy National Lampoon's Hollywood Hustle, which The Hollywood Reporter first reported in January. The movie does not yet have a release date.
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