Tom Cruise is reportedly in talks to star in a cameo on the forthcoming Star Trek movie.
Melbourne, Aug 7 : Tom Cruise is reportedly in talks to star in a cameo on the forthcoming 'Star Trek' movie.
The actor is said to have been brought in by director JJ Abrams, who helmed Cruise starrer 'Mission Impossible 3'.
And buzz is that he wants to play Captain Pike - a character that appeared fleetingly in the original series, reports Moviehole.
If the reports are true, then this won't be the first time that Cruise does a cameo, for he also appeared in "Young Guns", "Austin Powers in Goldmember".
He was recently rumoured to be doing a cameo in the new Ben Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder".
According to IGN Movies, which broke the news, Captain Pike was "James T. Kirk's predecessor as captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Mr. Spock's first commanding officer".
The site goes on to say "Pike was the captain in the original and unaired TV pilot, "The Cage," where he was portrayed by the late Jeffrey Hunter. When NBC balked at the cerebral nature of the show and wanted a new, action-heavy pilot filmed, Hunter was unavailable so a new character, Captain Kirk, was created. The unaired pilot was later recycled for the two-part first season episode "The Menagerie," which saw Spock court-martialed for trying to take a disfigured Pike back to Talos IV, the setting of "The Cage." In Trek lore, Spock served with Pike for about a decade."
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