Actor Zachary Quinto may be focusing on his new NBC medical drama Brilliant Minds, currently but a part of him is hopeful he will once again reprise the role of Spock in another Star Trek movie. Quinto played the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer in three Kelvin Timeline movies from 2009 to 2016. He told Variety he would love to play the iconic character again.
“The great thing is Star Trek is a limitless universe,” Quinto said. “Look at all the television shows, look at all the stories, look at all the characters and timelines. Anything is possible. That’s the joy of the franchise. That’s why it’s lasted for 55, 60 years. I’m open to it. I would love it. I would absolutely love it.” The original Star Trek series premiered 58 years ago on Sept. 8, 1966, and ran for three seasons.
Quinto added he’d play the character no matter where or when. “There’s no cutoff. The original cast did movies for decades, well into their 50s, 60s. The stories might be different. We might not be running as fast on the other planets, but I think anything’s possible, and I think there’s nothing more fulfilling as an artist then to come back to something after time has passed and cultivate a relationship from a completely different perspective, and a completely new point of view,” he said.
Will There Be A Fourth Star Trek Movie?
It remains to be seen whether a fourth Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movie will ever come to fruition with the film being in production limbo for several years.Earlier this year, Chris Pine, who played Captain James T. Kirk in the first three movies, talked about why the film series has seemingly ended, saying it was because the movies were catering to the wrong audience.
“I think what we’ve found is that we’ve captured an audience with the Trek universe that may not have come to us, but generally speaking it’s the diehards,” he said. “I think we should make films that appeal to people who want to see the film. I’m sick of trying to please people who don’t want to see what we do.”
I’m sick of trying to please people who don’t want to see what we do.
Pine went on to say that he thinks going in a different direction would be better should a Star Trek 4 ever see the light of day. “I think we just make a much smaller film that’s more story-driven, more character-based, there’s less shit exploding, and maybe do it that way,” he said. “Also, shoot it on film, not digital, he added.
Last year, Quinto spoke about why Star Trek 4 had stalled. “I think there’s a lot of other stuff, creative things. It’s complicated,” he said. “The fact that anything good gets made is kind of a miracle. I think it’s about different people having different agendas and ideas about what it will be. And I don’t know if and when it will happen… And if it coalesces again, and we come back, and we’re able to do it, wonderful. If not, we had a great run,” he said.
In Quinto’s latest project, he stars as neurologist Dr. Oliver Wolf in Brilliant Minds, which recently premiered on NBC and Peacock. In the series, inspired by the late neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, Quinto’s character specializes in treating patients with rare mental health conditions. Susan Bay Nimoy, the widow of Leonard Nimoy, who originated Spock in the 1966 Star Trek series, will guest star in an episode of the show this season as an “80-year-old nymphomaniac.”