[QUOTE=Death_at_Midnight]Personally I think there are other ways to really drum up lots of interest with ST. For instance Starfleet, wounded and traumatized by the Borg and Dominion war delevops a prototype commando wing. Fast action space-based adventure could revolve around a Kirk-like figure, leader of a squad of these Starfleet commandos. Use holographic emergency commandos for when the ship is overrun, each hologram programmed with all known fighting diciplines in the Federation, etc. Lots of possibilities there alone. Another idea Klingon Wars. Or even Star Trek from a Klingon perspective. Instead of the Enterprise zooming around, how about Klingon explorers, deep into some remote quadrant, exploring for possible expansion of the Empire. Imagine their personalities like that of a pirate ship: dicipline to the Klingon code, yet unpolished. They learn as they go, yet make many mistakes, but get better over time. Much like how Worf progressed.[QUOTE]

As much as I loved the new movie, I do agree that going forward would have been a better idea. Rather than a prequel or reimagining, why not jump another 75 years or so past the TNG/DS9/Voyager era, and have a "Next Next Generation"-type series/movie? But they chose to do this instead, and I was pleased with the results, so I can't complain.

There was a set of novels about the sort of Klingon series you describe! The ship and crew first appeared in a "team-up" novel with (I think) the TNG crew, then went on from there. I never read the series, but I understand it was pretty well received.

Anyway, in my own opinion, now that the origin story is out of the way, I would expect that the next movie in this series will be a little closer to the Star Trek we know and love. I have nothing to back that up, of course; it just seems like it would be -- pardon the unintentional joke -- the logical way to proceed.

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