The word Kelvin makes me sick. Think out of the box - new and original. I know that even Star Trek wasn't original - Forbidden Planet?
Different how? If you provided some thoughts then it would give us some context for a 'reimagining' that had nothing to do with the NuTrek or STD universes.
"Forbidden Planet" is a masterpiece but it's just one movie. However, I don't see what Star Trek did that was ripped off from it, aside from the idea of travelling through space at speeds faster than light.
If they are going to do something based around or inspired by TNG (which they probably will soon enough when the well runs dry), I'd rather they make it a FULL- Trek reboot. A completely re-imagining of Trek grounded in modern science. Avoid all these humanoid species (forehead aliens), because it is nearly impossible life on other worlds to resemble primate humans so similarly. We have CGI and better prosthetics now, so we can do more things with alien life. I would like to see more reptilian aliens. If not for the comet that hit Earth, reptilians would be the dominant species on this planet and there would be no modern humanoids. So it's really weird that thousands of other planets in Trek evolved humanoids similar to Earth.
It makes sense though I am not sure people would relate to non-humanoid species the way they do to humanoid ones. It's likely that most of them wouldn't have identifying expressions on their faces, nay possess something that we could call a face. Also if we were realistic there'd be no such thing as a universal translator that would make it appear like five or six different species in a room would all speak the same language (how the hell does that even work?).
To boldly go into it's own separate universe is something that I would respect greatly - no nothin', just a blank slate except that it takes place after TOS.
Uh... where's the NX-01??? Archer and crew must have wiped themselves out of existence or they're they should be appropriately put into the JJverse.
The Mandela effect. They keep going in an out of reality. Depends on who keeps changing the universe continuity - the prop master?
I've thought Chris Pine has done a very good job in NuTrek, but I think Paul Walker would have been even better. I still have trouble wrapping my mind around what happened to him. I almost wish it could have been something like 'Freejack' and he's safe in the future somewhere....
So you're talking about a Trek reboot that starts with an original ship and crew then, so not just a remake of TNG. I get it now, the "reimagining TNG" threw me. I'd be more interested in something like that than someone failing to redo TNG. Given the crap treatment Trek has received in recent years then a hard reboot would be the best way to go, especially if they made it new and unique from square two (I'd let them off with having a ship named Enterprise).