On the January 26, 2023 episode of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Stay,” Murphy mentioned the provide and why he declined. As he instructed Kimmel:

“It was the one the place they go to San Francisco and so they get the whale and all that stuff. I used to be going to be the one which they met once they bought to San Francisco, and I used to be like, ‘[disappointedly] No… I need to be beamed up and be on the ship,’ ya know? So, I did not do it. Yeah, they’d me, like, speaking jive to Spock in San Francisco.”

Murphy’s function was finally rewritten to be Dr. Gililan Taylor, the cetologist love curiosity of William Shatner’s Captain James T. Kirk. Murphy’s character would’ve been a Berkeley astrophysicist. As as to whether he would’ve additionally been a love curiosity for Kirk, we are able to at the least dream that wonderful dream.

If it is information to you that Murphy is a Trek fanatic, you have not been paying consideration. He is sprinkled references to the present right here and there all through his profession, most memorably in Reginald Hudlin’s “Boomerang,” the place he romances Halle Berry’s Angela with an off-handed riff about Spock’s final title. “Spock Jenkins. He is one in every of them Jenkins boys from Vulcan.”

With the way forward for the “Star Trek” movie collection up within the air, I consider it’s time to go boldly adventuring with them Jenkins boys from Vulcan. Solid Tracy Morgan or Chris Rock, and the big-screen franchise is saved.