Timothy Olyphant is boldly going into detail about losing the role of Captain Kirk to Chris Pine for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies.

The Justified actor, 55, revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he was in the running to play the Starship Enterprise's enigmatic captain, but the role ultimately went to Pine, 42, because he was younger.

"Here's what I can tell you about Star Trek: I went in and auditioned not for Captain Kirk, but I remember reading with J.J. Abrams and he's just a lovely, lovely guy. And just a lovely, lovely audition process," Olyphant explained. "Somewhere in there, I was auditioning for Doc, he's like, 'I already got a guy for Doc, so I don't need you for that, but I don't have a Kirk.'" (The role of Dr. Leonard McCoy would go to Karl Urban.)