Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Tun farkon taron 1968 na Kimiyyar Kimiyya na Duniya, Star Trek mahaliccin Roddenberry ya ce zai yi fim mai zuwa ga jerin talabijin. Amma ra'ayin prequel bai sake bayyana ba har zuwa ƙarshen 1980s, lokacin da Ralph Winter da Harve Bennett suka gabatar da shawara don prequel yayin ci gaban fim na huɗu. Roddenberry ya ƙi shawarar da Bennett ya gabatar a 1991, bayan kammala Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Sannan David Loughery ya rubuta rubutun mai taken The Academy Years, amma an ajiye shi saboda rashin amincewar Roddenberry da magoya baya. Fim din da aka ba da umarni a maimakon haka ya ƙare da Star Trek VI: Ƙasar da ba a gano ba. A watan Fabrairun 2005, bayan gazawar kudi na fim na goma, Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), da kuma soke jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na Star Trek: Enterprise, babban mai shirya jerin Rick Berman da marubucin Erik Jendresen sun fara kirkirar sabon fim mai suna Star Trek: The Beginning. Ya kamata ya kasance game da sabon saitin haruffa, wanda kakanin Kirk Tiberius Chase ya jagoranta, kuma ya kasance a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya-Romulan - bayan abubuwan da suka faru na Kamfanin Kasuwanci amma kafin abubuwan da suka faru na jerin asali.A cikin 2005, Viacom, wanda ke da mallakar Paramount Pictures, ya rabu da CBS Corporation, wanda ya riƙe dukiyar talabijin na Paramount, gami da mallakar alamar Star Trek. Gail Berman, sannan shugaban Paramount, ya shawo kan shugaban zartarwa na CBS, Leslie Moonves, don ba su damar watanni goma sha takwas don haɓaka sabon fim ɗin Star Trek, in ba haka ba Paramount zai rasa haƙƙin fim ɗin. Berman ya kusanci Mission: Impossible III marubuta Orci da Kurtzman don ra'ayoyi kan sabon fim, kuma bayan fim ɗin ya kammala harbi ta nemi darektan su, Abrams, ya samar da shi. Abrams, Orci da Kurtzman, da masu shirya Damon Lindelof da Bryan Burk, sun ji cewa an ba da izini ga abin da ya faru bayan jerin, Orci da Lindelof suna ganin kansu Trekkies, kuma suna jin wasu litattafan Star Trek suna da darajar canonical, kodayake Roddenberry bai taɓa yin la'akari da...  Tambaya: Wane fim ne aka saki a shekara ta 2002?
Tauraruwar Tafiya: Nemesis