Going where no company has gone before is nothing new for Los Angeles’ Pacific Opera Project, known for presenting pieces with novel settings and themes.

In December it offered Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme, aka ‘The Hipsters,’ ” a modern-day revamp of the late 1800s classic, at the Highland Park Ebell Club. But its next opera will be out of this world … really.

“The Abduction from the Seraglio,” Mozart’s tale of two men rescuing their kidnapped girlfriends from a harem, has become an episode of “Star Trek,” with the Enterprise crew, Klingons, slave girls and lots of fun. It boasts an English libretto and will be presented at El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood Friday, Saturday and March 8.

The idea for the spacey production came to Pacific Opera Project co-founder and artistic director Josh Shaw from the word “abduction” in the opera’s title. It brought aliens to his mind, which led to “Star Trek” and “Star Wars.”

“I started doing some research on ‘Star Trek’ because I wasn’t as familiar with that, and turns out everything they did for the original series was based on having no money, so it was pretty easy to relate to in our situation. It was pretty simple and it worked out,” Shaw said.

Shaw skimmed episodes of the original series and watched its famous moments on YouTube. He also spoke with a friend who, at the time, was working on the script for the next “Star Trek” film.

“The point is to get the things that everyone recognizes. You don’t have to go into super-Trekkie mode to do that,” Shaw said.

Fans of the original Mozart work will realize that most of the lyrics — now in English — in the company’s “Abduction” retain the same themes; however, the repetitive lines have been minimized and changed to further develop the characters. The order of the scenes also has been changed to better move the story forward and some songs have been cut to make the opera under two hours. Lastly, the character’s names are basically the same, but their “Star Trek” counterparts are made obvious.

“The music has always been the best part of the show and now with this new adaptation, hopefully, we’ve made the story a little more entertaining, too,” Shaw said. “Our (usual) audience knows what to expect, so they’re going to bring their friends and warn them of what to expect. They’re going to have a good time.”

Shaw first presented “Abduction” at the Southern Illinois Music Festival in 2014 and quickly discovered casting would not be a problem, having to turn singers away during the auditions this time, even for chorus roles.

Tenor Brian Cheney is thrilled to be reprising his role as Capt. James T. Belmonte.

The Lyme, Conn., resident watched every “Star Trek” episode on Netflix and studied William Shatner’s mannerisms until he felt he could create an over-the-top caricature of Captain Kirk. He even has the seminal Shatner barrel rolls down in the opera’s fight scenes.

“I think we all have a little Kirk in us because we all want to be able to save the day and still have our hair look good,” Cheney said.

On the serious side, Cheney points out that although “Abduction” is a comedy, it is one of Mozart’s toughest operas to sing.

“The singing is so difficult and the story is so funny that it blends the best of opera, which is really great singing that requires high technical perspective and ability,” Cheney said. “And the audience doesn’t realize it’s watching an opera, it feels more like a musical comedy.”

With Pacific Opera Project, Shaw is trying to find ways to bring opera to a younger, influential audience that wants to be entertained and appreciates the arts and, according to Cheney, it’s working and other companies should take notice.

“We’re trying to spread opera and keep it going and show people that it can be changing, it doesn’t have to be a museum piece that we go look at and don’t really engage with,” Shaw said.

Shaw hopes “Abduction” will draw “Star Trek” and sci-fi fans, as well as other people who may not be opera fans — and that they’ll come back.