Star Trek needs to avoid the current trend in Hollywood by remaking anything. Too often we see stories get rebooted, retconned, or otherwise restarted just to continue a successful franchise. The most recent series, and one that I won't deny I'm very interested in, is the Dexter reboot. With a firm conclusion in Dexter: New Blood, a new series is in the works that rejects the ending of New Blood.
This new sequel series will go hand in hand with a new prequel series. I'm quite excited about it and hopefully, it does things the right way. It's something that Star Trek can't really do and needs to avoid doing. Thankfully, Star Trek hasn't done the reboot idea much, they're always one bad year creatively from going into the typical cesspool that is content reboots.
While it's fair to claim that the universe that started with Star Trek 2009 is a "reboot universe" (the Kelvin Timeline) I don't largely believe that. Star Trek 2009 and Star Trek: Beyond are wholly unique and different stories. They did well and I consider 2009 to be a successful film. They did do a reboot, however, and that was Star Trek: Into Darkness.
It was a rebooted concept and story idea of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, just devoid of the backstory that was set up in the original series episode "Space Seed". The follow-up film to that original series episode remains one of the most beloved pieces of Star Trek in franchise history. It's beyond beloved.
Yet, the reboot of the story, Into Darkness, is among most of the fandom's least favorite films. This may come as a shock, but I never was a huge fan of Wrath of Khan. The reason everyone loved it is why I do enjoy it; essentially it's Ricardo Montablaun chewing the set like he's a beaver for nearly two hours. What's not to love?
Yet, I was extremely engaged with Into Darkness. I thought Benedict Cumberbatch's take on Khan Noonien Singh was inspired, and making him less of a pontificating villain and more of a ranting psychopath was perfect. Plus, he's so damn quotable.
I thought the film was great, and it's one of my personal favorite films in the Star Trek canon. A tad shocking, I'm sure. Yet, if that film can't find its traction with the fandom, then no rebooted film can. I think the film is great and the story is so engaging, yet because it tried to do the Wrath of Khan formula, I believe it was dismissed by the fandom as a soulless retread.
I think, unfair, but I can completely see their stance on it. I disagree, yet I understand. If that film can't find its legs in this fandom, then no rebooted film can. That's why it's best just to stay away from the concept entirely. I'm fine with a spinoff series of Strange New Worlds that fills in the gaps of the early cancelation of the Original Series left, because I few that as a continuation of a story.
Not an attempt to reboot the concept. Yet, anything beyond a continuation of a story - with or without the same actors and actresses - should be avoided.