If Quentin Tarantino has his way, his version of Star Trek will feel like “Pulp Fiction in space.” Though the Oscar-winning filmmaker is still dancing around the question of whether he’s actually going to helm a big-screen installment of the venerable franchise, he spoke freely about his ideas to Deadline, revealing that funny little detail about his dream Star Trek movie.

During the interview, Tarantino referred to a 2018 Simon Pegg interview in which the actor, who has started in the most recent version of the franchise, said the Tarantino adaptation would very much not feel like “Pulp Fiction in space.” Tarantino, however, refutes that notion.

“I get annoyed at Simon Pegg,” Tarantino told Deadline. “He doesn’t know anything about what’s going on, and he keeps making all these comments as if he knows about stuff. One of the comments he said, he’s like, ‘Well, look, it’s not going to be Pulp Fiction in space.’ Yes, it is! If I do it, that’s exactly what it’ll be. It’ll be Pulp Fiction in space.”

Pulp Fiction in space! Prepare for bowl cuts and retro dancing scenes and F-bombs galore. The script for the upcoming Star Trek has been penned by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), and Tarantino apparently loves it, calling it a “really cool” piece of work. “There’s some things I need to work on but I really, really liked it,” he said.

The script also already had a “Pulp Fiction-y aspect,” Tarantino continued. “I have never read a science fiction movie that has this shit in it, ever. There’s no science fiction movie that has this in it. And they said, I know, that’s why we want to make it. It’s, at the very least, unique in that regard.”

Of course, the filmmaker still hasn’t officially committed to the project, so it’s unclear if we’ll ever see a Tarantino Star Trek movie. He’s gone on and on about retiring after making his 10th movie, and now that Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, his ninth film, is on the verge of release, it’s unclear what project he’ll use as his swan song. But, Tarantino is an avowed Star Trek fan, so perhaps he’ll use the favored franchise to cap his Perfect 10.

However, just because he’s stepping away from film doesn’t mean he’s going to stop working entirely. In the interview, Tarantino also revealed that he has written a play and five episodes of a show titled Bounty Law—which is teased in Once Upon a Time; it’s one of the fictional TV Westerns that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, a fading actor named Rick Dalton, stars in in the 1950s. The series doesn’t have a home, but Tarantino doesn’t seem like he’s putting it away.

“I can’t imagine Leonardo is going to want to do it. Cast somebody else? If he wants to do it that would be great,” the filmmaker said. “I’m not planning on that but I have an outline for about three other episodes. So I’ll probably write about three other episodes and then just do it. Direct every episode. They’re a half hour long. I wouldn’t mind doing it for Netflix but I’d want to shoot it on film. Showtime, HBO, Netflix, FX.”

Your move, networks and streamers.

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