There seems to be some confusion about Star Trek's newest film

Star Trek is going full steam ahead with a brand new film, dubbed by the fandom and the media at-large as "Star Trek Origins". It may not be the official title of the film but it is the working title that we're giving. it's supposedly set at the beginning of the timeline and will tell the story of how humans really dealt with the earliest instances of aliens on Earth.

The idea is that it'll start to develop the concept of the United Federation of Planets, and, hopefully, bridge the gap to Star Trek: Enterprise. That is, we hope, as there's some concern this film may screw with continuity. Some people seem to miss this point, as Origins is going to be set in the prime timeline.

Meaning that the same timeline that gave us William Shatner's James Kirk, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan II, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Discovery will also include Origins. It is not set in the Kelvin timeline. At all.

This is something that seems to be getting lost in the conversations of the film. This is somehow a Kelvin prequel film that will tell the timeline's history that features Chris Pine's James Kirk. That's not the case at all.

One outlet suggested that Origins is a Star Trek: Enterprise reboot, but that's still inaccurate. It's a brand new film and it's one that seems to be getting far more traction by studio officials than that of the fourth Kelvin film that would feature Pine and company.

With the film being set so far back in Star Trek's history, there are many who are concerned that the film will undo decades of storytelling for an ill-conceived concept that no one is really asking for. It's for that reason that many were and still are hoping that it's set in the Kelvin timeline. That way if they screw things up, we don't have to suffer through it, canonically speaking.