Who says it's an academy "setting"? The characters being cadets is the important point. Focus on that, and let them go where the action is.
Shatner's 2003 Trek TV pitch
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But, isn't that sort of the thing the job of actual officers? Why even have a freakin' Starfleet if you're gonna have cadets do everything?
The cadets will not be "doing everything." It's a fictional show, not a documentary. Things can be arranged however the writers like.
It's a matter of believability.
Well then forget Star Trek entirely. Faster than light travel is a far higher credibility hurdle than Starfleet's made-up personnel policies. 
Young and sexy!
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Young and sexy!
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lol. Didn't you hear? Central casting went out with Shatner. Something to do with political correctness and a right wing agenda.
You can do better than that, Temis.Young and sexy!
Did I really have to type that?
I mean ignoring that the new Star Trek movie gave us young and sexy Kirk and Spock without keeping them as kids in the Academy, these fresh faced young things could be just out of the Academy on some accelerated learning program - or they get a field comission in the pilot episode.
Then BOOM! You got your teenagers in space living it up on a starship. Cruising about for babes in deep space on one galactic joyride. Sweet Seventeen in Sagittarrius.
Cue me in on the reason where we need to stick these fine young fellows in boring old classes on Earth on a regular basis?
I can actually see that as a "Wagon Train to the stars"-type 1-line description of a show!
I have to agree on the novel. Collision course was well thought out. I have to wonder when the sequel is being released. Is there any mention of it on Shatner's site or Amazon?
So Trek2009 is actually Shatner's fault, isn't it? He introduced the concept, and Paramount called a couple of writers, and Orci/Kurtzman/Abrams got the gig.
^ Actually, Harve Bennett and others introduced the concept in the late 1980s; this would have been Star Trek VI, but for a backlash from the original cast and then the fans.
A sequel to Collision Course is not likely. Pocket Books had a change in leadership, Shatner felt slighted in how he and his book were treated (especially after having put out the best selling series of Star Trek novels in the entire history of Star Trek novels), and the whole thing ground to a halt with the one book.
Reboot the Universe seemed to be the most logical place to take the Star Trek universe. It might've been nice, but I wonder if they would've fallen into Enterprise's pit-fall of always doing something familiar. This movie, love it or hate it, has made it so we can have new characters, new adventures, and we don't always know how things will turn out. Destroying Vulcan proved that.
What, the JMS pitch?
I guess it's not fair to compare it to the Abrams film, but it doesn't seem more logical to me. Abrams delicately juggles the canon sensitivites of one group of fans (which the reboot would basically ignore) while delivering an exciting space opera yarn with a bit of Star Trek's optimism (while the Reboot wanted to do D&D with Vorlons, to type it rather negatively).
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