Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

Simon Pegg has heard from the toughest, highest-flying critic about Star Trek Beyond: an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

He checked in with astronaut Kate Rubins after she watched the Justin Lin-directed summer hit, which was beamed up to the Space Station.

Pegg, who co-wrote Beyond and stars as Enterprise chief engineer Scotty, was blown away by their satellite talk earlier this month to promote Star Trek Beyond's arrival on Blu-ray (Nov. 1).

"That is fantastic, I have never spoken to anyone in space before,” Pegg says.

Rubins gave high marks to Beyond. It didn’t hurt that she had the best view ever to watch a science-fiction film.

“I watched it from our cupola, which is our windows facing the Earth,” she says, prompting Pegg to lose his geek mind (“That’s utterly amazing”).

The giant Federation space station depicted in the film, Starbase Yorktown, was spot-on in Rubins' expert view. “Your special effects guys get it right. It absolutely feels like a space station," she says.

Pegg ended the nerd-tastic talk by volunteering his services.

“If you need a chief engineer to come and fix your warp core,” Pegg says, “you know where I am.”