"I wasn't a fan of 'Star Trek'. It didn't excite me. All I wanted at that time was a part that I really connected to. When my agent said Star Trek, I said, 'No! Have you not been hearing anything I've said? Star Trek is the furthest thing from what I want to do'," he said.
Pine reprises his role in the upcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness", alongside fellow returning stars Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg and John Cho.