Hollywood has no lack of famousfans, but Simon Pegg has always been among the biggest, peppering his early work onandwith references to the original trilogy, and even going public with his story about confessing his Princess Leia crush to Carrie Fisher. So when Pegg was cast as Montgomery Scott, the engineer on the Starship Enterprise, in 2009's, it seemed like an awkward place for anut to boldly go. As it turned out, it was just a preview of another, odder twist a few years down the road.Pegg swears he doesn't know whatdirector J.J. Abrams is planning for Star Wars Episode VII , and he's even suggested that his role as Scotty takes him out of contention for a part in theuniverse (I suspect he'll make his way in there in the end). But when I spoke to him a few weeks ago over the phone he did tell me about where he was when he learned that Abrams would be directing, and how he got the director to confirmwon't be the older, less cool sibling left behind. We also talked about the serious sprinting Scotty does in one key action scene in, what it's like being one of the older cast members, and why he, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost are being so vigilant about maintaining the secrets about their upcoming comedy The World's End . He actually gets pretty heated about it: "Anyone that’s trying to undermine or spoil something I’ve taken a long time to try to create, is the enemy as far as I’m concerned and I don’t owe them anything, least of all the truth."Check out more where that came from below, and catch Star Trek Into Darkness in theaters this weekend.It was the biggest sort of Star Trek set ever built in terms of the ship. We’ve had bigger sets elsewhere for the hangar of the Vengeance and the red forest, but it’s the biggest the Enterprise has ever been rendered because you could walk from the bridge to engineering to the med bay and to the transporter room and there are whole systems of corridors built so we could do shots on the move and have a sense of continuity on the ship. So, it was really exciting when you were inside it because it was like being on the ship.Yeah, it was immense. It’s always very important to J.J. that we are surrounded by physicality, that we’re never really relying on too much green screen. Certainly from my experience in the film, there was very little green screen work done. We always had some kind of physical prop around us and we were always in touch with some solid object, you know, and that set that was down at hangar in West LA, which is essentially a gigantic warehouse that people use if a sound studio is not big enough. That was all there and when it was lit up, when the kind of emergency lights were flashing. It was insane. It was 100 meters long, it was like half a mile. It was ridiculous. I ran it three times, sprinted it as fast as I possibly could, and it was extraordinarily fun.Oh, I threw up after the third one because I’d only just had my dinner. We were doing a night shoot and I kind of...J.J. has this thing where he makes you want to do your very best all of the time. He never demands it of you. He never kind of like plays any game in asking for it. He never even physically asks you to do it, but you always want to do your best for J.J., because it’s J,J,. So, I ran faster than I’ve run since I was a kid and broke the land speed record. All of the crew applauded and I felt really good about myself, because, you know, I’m the oldest of the crew members and then J.J. said, “That was great, Simon. Would you do it again,” and I was like, “Yeah, yeah, just give me one minute.” Then I kind of got my breath back and I did it again and then I did it again and then I had excuse myself and go throw up.I think, no, not really. Anton is the youngest and I’m the oldest. Me and Karl are kind of the oldest, as is in the script, really, Bones and Scotty are slightly older. There’s nothing when we’re hanging around with each other that would suggest that anyone is older than anyone else, but I always know that I am. Psychologically I’m like, “I have to keep up with these kids.”I think Scotty is always happier to just to stay in engineering. That’s what he loves. He loves his technology and his quantum physics. If he had his way, he would never have to engage in these kind of adventures and I think that’s what makes him kind of a fun character to play, because he reacts in those situations kind of more like we would react. shocked and amazed and a bit freaked out.Well Jimmy did it, so I should do it myself.