Star Trek needs to stop telling origin stories

Star Trek: Section 31 will again do what so many other Star Trek shows have done before it; tell an origin story. By our counts, this is the seventh series or film to do so. In the shows, we had Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Star Trek: The Original Series. While in the films, not counting Section 31, we had Sar Trek 2009, and Star Trek: First Contact.

Each of those films and shows did a lot to explain, expand, and attempt to tell prequels to stories that would later come to be. In doing so, the franchise continues to exploit, condense, and further muddle the franchise's past. Section 31 will once again seek to harvest intrigue over the golden era of the franchises by telling the story of Section 31. A story no one was looking to see be told.

The lack of general intrigue and desire to push Star Trek into a realm more similar to that of The Killjoys or Guardians of the Galaxy has turned a lot of fans off. It's been an ill-conceived idea, one that many fans are not looking forward to.

And yet, Paramount wants to do it again with another prequel film, this one set in the Prime Timeline, being set before Star Trek: Enterprise. This time, however, it's intended to be a theatrical release. So we're once again asking; who wants this?

Why are we being flooded with more and more prequel content when we could further the Star Trek story and possibly tidy up the timeline? Why aren't we focusing on continuing after the events of Star Trek's Picard and Prodigy? That era of Star Trek was wildly popular, and if you went back to the production style of the '90s and '00s, one limited in special effects, you could easily pull off a story that people would want to engage in.

Especially if you bring in some of the Star Trek stars of yesteryear that we aren't used to seeing that often, doing that may just help the franchise break free from the malaise it can find itself in.