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The comedian said it took him a few days to respond to a one-line email from director JJ Abrams that said: "Would you like to be Scotty?"
Pegg told JoBlo: "I agonised over it for a couple of days, 'Should I do this, is this the right thing for me to do?'
"And eventually I decided it was because, you know, I love my job and my job is pretty much, as much as I can, about having fun. And this seemed to be a really fun thing to do."
The Hot Fuzz star also claimed that dedicated Star Trek fans shouldn't worry about Abrams's latest instalment being unfaithful to the original films because it is being made by someone who "loves" the franchise.
The prequel will be released in May 2009. Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana and Winona Ryder are among the cast.
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