That would have been better than Beyond. But I'm not sure I would want to see Shatner again, or have the idea that the Prime universe somehow needed saving rather than the KT being its own thing.
"Star Trek Begins" - The 'Origins' Film Discussion
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That would have been better than Beyond. But I'm not sure I would want to see Shatner again, or have the idea that the Prime universe somehow needed saving rather than the KT being its own thing.
It's the Orci script dropped in favour of Star Trek Beyond. I don't know with 100% certainty that's the name, but it's what I've heard from people in communication with him prior to his disappearance from online spaces. I know he promised to send at least one person the script and never did.
If anyone has it, please PM me
Between First Contact (first warp flight, first contact with aliens), "First Flight" (warp 2 barrier), Enterprise (first starship of deep space exploration), Discovery (Klingon war), Strange New Worlds (Enterprise 1701 before Kirk and friends), what "origin" is left to tell? 
Not to mention, Abrams' 2009 NuTrek was also an origin story of the TOS crew as well, albeit in an alternate timeline. I, too, have been wondering what else there is to delve into from an origins POV.
There's a huge gap between a half-cut Cochrane playing Ooby Dooby to some Vulcans next to an abandoned missile silo, and the launch of the NX-01, so I disagree that there's no scope for stories in that period.
Whether the film will be any good or not remains to be seen, but in principle it's an unseen and potentially interesting period as a shattered Earth begins to rebuild and take its first steps into the cosmos.
Whether the film will be any good or not remains to be seen, but in principle it's an unseen and potentially interesting period as a shattered Earth begins to rebuild and take its first steps into the cosmos.
First warp ship, first contact with aliens, warp speed barriers, warp 5 engine, first exploratory starship, all the "big events" have already been covered. I'm not saying there shouldn't be an origin-themed prequel, I'm more asking, what's left to tell that's worth telling?
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I can't imagine it's going to be pre-NX-01, we know that not a whole lot happened during that period.
But, a Mission Impossible like story, set mostly on Earth, during the lead up to the formation of the Federation? I could see it. All sorts of political intrigue and espionage. Perhaps an enemy plot to prevent the formation has to be thwarted by our main characters?
*Excluding TATV
Would this not put it as a post-Enterprise?*
I can't imagine it's going to be pre-NX-01, we know that not a whole lot happened during that period.
But, a Mission Impossible like story, set mostly on Earth, during the lead up to the formation of the Federation? I could see it. All sorts of political intrigue and espionage. Perhaps an enemy plot to prevent the formation has to be thwarted by our main characters?
*Excluding TATV
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Can't really be Pre Enterprise, if they want to have a ship that gets from here to there in a timely manor.. that was set with the Warp 5 engine. Now you can have them go from A to B in.. Months or Years, then Okay. But poping out for Ice Cream in Alpha Centauri isn't going to work..
That sounds like the premise of the upcoming Section 31 movie, actually.
A "birth of the Federation" movie is interesting, but... where's the NX-01? Just somewhere else?
Could be a similar plot.
If Archer was supposed to be the first President of the Federation, I suspect NX-01 was likely close to retirement by that point. It was the first of its kind, built many years before and had gone through a LOT of hard mileage that probably over-stressed its spaceframe to the point of no longer being space-worthy. His first official act as President was likely to commemorate its decommission to a museum or something.
Doesn't really need to involve the NX-01. If TATV is to be believed, we know what they were up to in the lead up to the formation. Presumably this story will involve other, new characters.
The ship was in service until 2161 and retired and turned into a museum.
Been 20 years since I've seen the episode. What was the NX-01 up to besides rescuing Shran's daughter on the way back to Earth?
If such an origin story were to occur in that time-frame, I could easily see them try to coax Bakula to come back and briefly reprise his role for that very kind of kick-off as President Archer. He could be retiring NX-01 and sending off a new crew in a whole new ship (that isn't named Enterprise).
If we go by the biography seen in In A Mirror Darkly*, Archer wasn't the first President.
*Not really considered canon as it wasn't legible on screen when it was aired.
