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There’s still no telling whether Tarantino’s ‘Star Trek’ movie will be connected to the Kelvin timeline or not.

It’s been a while since the crew of the Starship Enterprise visited a strange new world in search of new life and civilizations. The Star Trek of television was full of strange new worlds; the Enterprise seemed to discover one every single week. The Trek movies, so focused on special effects, violence, and intricate revenge plots, have frequently strayed from Trek’s original mission. And while there’s plenty of action and excitement in Star Trek Beyond, there’s also a clear attempt to return this series to its core principles: Exploration, diplomacy, teamwork, and the hope for a better tomorrow. After the missteps of the punishingly bleak and the unfortunately rehashy Star Trek Into Darkness, it’s a necessary and welcome course correction; a Star Trek back into the light.

It is interesting that, given a reboot could theoretically go off in any direction it chooses, that the relaunched Star Trek has begun to repeat events from the first Star Trek movie series. Star Trek Into Darkness was essentially a revisitation of The Wrath of Khan; the movie not only reintroduced the title character, it also flip-flopped the famous end of Wrath of Khan where Spock dies saving the Enterprise. (This time around it was Captain Kirk who made the ultimate sacrifice ... for about 8 minutes, and then he got better.) Certainly the circumstances of the film are very different, but Star Trek Beyond shares one crucial ingredient with Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, namely the destruction of the Starship Enterprise, and the shipwrecking of its crew on a distant alien planet.

Simon Pegg is a funny dude. Apparently it's not just in his movies either. In as real a life as you can get on a movie set, he plays pranks on his castmates. More specifically, as you can see in this video, he hilariously pranks his Star Trek: Into Darkness castmates Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch and more. Check it out!

On Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, to celebrate the birthday of Harry Potter, a very inebriated Ron Weasley, performed by the amazing Simon Pegg, appeared to sing Potter a very Happy Birthday!

What Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright call "Three Flavours Cornetto" (aka The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy), started with Shaun of the Dead. It continued with Hott Fuzz, and will wrap up with the forthcoming The World's End. When a group of guys try to relive their youth and finish an epic pub crawl they couldn't finish 20 years before, they come to realize that their fates aren't the only one

The two guys you remember from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz filmed another movie together that's coming out Friday called Paul. They decided to try to recreate Star Wars...Here's what came out of it. I think I'd watch just about anything these two guys do. Video after the jump!