Earlier today, while searching for a motorcycle post I made a few years ago, I stumbled onto a completely unrelated thread that caught my eye.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/J-J-abrams-to-helm-Star-trek-Prequel/topic/5179/

Because it was a Skyjedi topic, I gave it a look to see what his thoughts were, so far in advance. It was just information and a relatively short-lived discussion.

However, this post by Warb really jumped out at me;

I know they would never do it, but I think they need to take advice from DC comics and have a crissis of some kind that permanently changes the history of the Star Trek universe, restarts it and takes away all the s**t that has been added to it in the last 15 years....Don't do it on the cheap....Afterwards they would have a blank page to do any kind of series they wanted.

That is eerily close to the actual film they ended up making. Good call, sir.