It was never pitched.
"In July,
Akiva Goldsman told TrekMovie 'when the time comes, we will certainly try' to pitch
Star Trek: Year One. Later that month at SDCC (after the Skydance deal had been approved), he told
THR they would 'beg and borrow when Skydance comes in' for a chance to make
Year One. He also solicited the Comic-Con crowd in Hall H to let Skydance know they want the show.
TrekMovie spoke to Goldsman for the
Strange New Worlds season 3 finale and asked if they have had a chance to speak to the new management team (which
includes a Star Trek fan). The executive producer revealed they are still waiting for their moment:
“I think that—as I say, we’re renters, right?—and so the new owners of the house just took possession. So I don’t know. I think
Year One’s a dream. And it’s a good dream, and it’s a real dream. And we would do it in a heartbeat. And right now, we know we promise to end
Strange New Worlds well, so that’s what we’re doing. And if, for some reason, that dream is shared by the folks at Skydance and Paramount, that would be amazing. But we’re not relying on it. We’re ending the show because we promise to end the show in a way that is complete.”
What he said was:
“We started having this idea of those great lost years that exist in all of our head canon and ancillary canon, but had never really gotten much of a chance to be on screen. So what we’ve tried to do is try to reach back to Pike’s Enterprise and instill in it the kind of storytelling values we have today, and bring us right up to Kirk’s first day on the job. And that is our hope, and that is our plan. And we plan to get you there…
and if you like us enough, you just write ‘Dear Skydance and Paramount, we know you still have the sets. Don’t you want to make Star Trek: Year One?'”
(emphasis mine)
So basically telling fans to write to Skydance and Paramount about wanting the show (when that is not remotely how things get greenlit) is not giving fans false hope to you?