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Hottest co-star couples, Simon Pegg has made sequels to other people’s movies, but he has resisted making sequels to his own.

The British actor adds his comic touch to two huge Hollywood franchises — he was first engineer Scotty in director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot and he returns next month for the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness.

As well, he was the droll gadgets guy in the third of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible films, returning for the filmed-in-Vancouver fourth in that series.

“Sequels are a good thing if the story is an ongoing thing,” Pegg says during a break in the Vancouver filming of the comedy Hector and the Search for Happiness.

”But sometimes you have a story that ends and it ends well — it needs no additions.

“People are always asking about a sequel to Shaun of the Dead, and that’s a film the just doesn’t require a sequel. It’s a completed story.”

Pegg starred in and co-wrote that 2004 breakout horror comedy about a couple of regular guys (Pegg and Nick Frost) who fend off the zombie apocalypse in a London pub.

“With something like Star Trek, it’s the ongoing adventures of this crew, and Mission: Impossible is an ongoing adventure.”

In 2007, Pegg reteamed with Edgar Wright, Shaun’s director and co-writer, for the buddy-cop comedy Hot Fuzz, with co-star Frost joining them again.

An homage to the 48 Hours/Lethal Weapon genre — except set in a small British town — that movie seemed to hold sequel possibilities, but not to Pegg.

“The film is about those two becoming Hot Fuzz. The joke was to see a country bobby and a London detective become these two bad-ass American cops. If you started from that point, it wouldn’t be as effective.”

This August, the third movie from Pegg, Wright and Frost hits theatres.

Titled The World’s End, it’s about a quintet of friends who go out on a pub crawl (shades of Shaun of The Dead) and become humanity’s only hope of survival.

“It’s Edgar Wright directing, me and Edgar writing, and a similar cast and crew,” Pegg says.

“Thematically, those three films are a series, I think. We’re friends — we don’t see each other all the time. It’s the first time we’ve made a film together since [Hot Fuzz].

“It was a much easier birth process. We’re 10 years older than we were when we started making Shaun of The Dead and we’re 10 years more mature as writers so it’s a fairly smooth process.”

It’s worth noting that the currently filming Hector and the Search for Happiness is based on a slim novel that is itself the first of a series, but Pegg hasn’t read any of the novels.

“Hector, by the time he gets to this film’s end, his story is told,” he says of the title character, a self-doubting psychiatrist.

“He might get involved in some international spy ring.”