Zachary Quinto Says He’s Not Really Attached to Star Trek 4 Anymore

Zachary Quinto doesn’t sound like he’s coming back as Spock for the next Star Trek film. Quinto spoke with ComicBook.com and said that he doesn’t believe he or his fellow cast members are attached to the next movie.

“It’s already thriving in television format with Discovery and Picard and the spinoffs,” Quinto said. “I can’t even keep track of how many new Star Trek stories are being told since our last film in 2016. All I know is that we, all of us, had an incredible experience making those films. If there is an appetite for more of those stories with us in them, I’m sure that we would all be thrilled to come back and do one more or whatever, but I’m not really attached to it anymore.”

Quinto added that he’s no longer expecting to do another Star Trek, saying, “I stepped away from any expectation or any real certainty that it’s ever going to happen again. I think that’s the only real way to move through the world, right? If it happens, that’d be great, but I’m not going to sit around waiting for it to happen. I have a ton of other stuff in my life, in my career. I have lifelong friendships from those films and working relationships and a lot of respect and fond memories, so if that’s what it ends up being and I can look back on my life and say that’s what it was, then that’s incredible, and if we get to do more, that’s also incredible. But as far as the stories go, they’ve been around for decades and generations, and I think that will continue, whether or not we continue on with them.”

There’s no solid word on the future of the Star Trek franchise on film. In March, Simon Pegg said he wasn’t sure about doing another one, particularly after Anton Yelchin who played Pavel Chekov passed away.