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Simon Pegg is getting ready to beam himself back up for more Star Trek movies.

After a series of delays, the fourth film in the rebooted series that features new actors playing the classic characters of Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Bones (Karl Urban), Scotty (Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), Chekov (the late Anton Yelchin) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) is set to go before cameras early next year.

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Pegg, who co-wrote the third film, will be back as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott.

While the plot is under wraps, the new film is said to be focusing on Kirk running into his father (Chris Hemsworth) in a time travel storyline.

S.J. Clarkson will direct, making her the first female to helm a film in the Star Trek franchise.

“I’ve met with S.J. and she’s fizzing with ideas and she has the right attitude,” Pegg says during an interview to promote Mission: Impossible — Fallout. “She’s reverent, but she’s not slavish. In terms of the story, I have a vague knowledge, but it’s nothing I can talk about. I’m also doing something that is separate to that.”