Don’t count on Chris Hemsworth heading back to the final frontier anytime soon.

The Avengers: Endgame star revealed to Variety Tuesday why he passed on the long-delayed Star Trek 4 from producer J.J. Abrams. The sequel would have seen Hemsworth’s George Kirk — who sacrificed himself in Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek — return to save the galaxy with his son, James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), in what presumably would have been the final outing for this version of the Enterprise crew. So why did the actor say “no?”

“I didn’t feel like we landed on a reason to revisit that yet,” Hemsworth explained. “I didn’t want to be underwhelmed by what I was going to bring to the table.”

The script in question at the time was from Star Trek Beyond‘s original writers, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. In August 2018, it was reported that salary negotiations between Paramount and Hemsworth and Pine broke down over budget — the studio deemed the actors’ fees were too high and didn’t want to pay. This is despite Paramount making the inspired and progressive choice to hire Jessica Jones helmer S.J. Clarkson to direct Trek 4, making Clarkson the first woman to ever direct one of the franchise’s movies.

It was during this time that Quentin Tarantino (with Abrams) brought his take for a Star Trek movie — R-rated, of course — to Paramount. A script was written by The Revenant scribe Mark Smith while Tarantino made Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Paramount’s hope is that the Oscar-winning filmmaker will make this sequel his next project once Hollywood is released this July, and give the franchise a (pun SO intended) shot of adrenaline to the heart.

It’s been three years since the last Star Trek movie arrived in theaters — Star Trek 4 was announced at Beyond‘s Comic-Con premiere in 2016. Star Trek Beyond, while a creative improvement over Star Trek Into Darkness, was the lowest grossing of the Abrams-verse Treks ($343.4 million worldwide) despite mostly positive critical reviews. As fun as it sounds for Trek 4‘s rumored time-travel plot to reunite Hemsworth’s elder Kirk with the son he never met, it seems like this ship has sailed.

Paramount reportedly has multiple scripts in development for a proposed sequel, in addition to the one slotted for Tarantino. Here’s hoping one of them can give Pine’s Kirk and this crew of the Enterprise the send-off they deserve.