Actor Deep Roy, who has played Scotty’s diminutive sidekick Keenser in the last two STAR TREK films, is on board for a third journey into the final frontier.

Roy was scheduled to appear at the Yakima, Washington Central City Comic-Con this October, but the organization announced today that the actor had to cancel his planned visit due to his participation in STAR TREK BEYOND.

Roy is the first of the second-tier cast named to appear in the 2016 sequel; there’s been no word yet if Alice Eve’s Carol Marcus or Joseph Gatt’s Officer 0718 will be on board for the next outing of the Enterprise crew.

Selfie of the day: an excited fan runs into Simon Pegg in a Vancouver cafe.