Darth Hade said:
What Star Trek fans wanted was a real series of prequel fims showing us how the original crew met and came together since this was never done with the original series.
Hollywood is obsessed with "origin" stories and prequels, it seems.
Let's be honest, here--as compelling as the notion of the SW prequels may have been, a good chunk of the drama and suspense was sucked out of them because we already knew a whole of what had to happen, and what was going to happen.
Prequels and origin stories invite all sorts of distracting winks, nods, and references to future events.
It's "Superboy Syndrome"--we know that in any given Superboy story, he'll never die or have some major life change occur, because he has to grow up to become Superman.
And, STAR TREK certainly didn't need an "origin". The Enterprise was built. Various Captains and officers simply came and went--by way of promotions, transfers, and deaths--until the cast we know came together. Like...in a real Navy!
A big adventure that brings Kirk and company together (despite differing ages and career paths) all at the same time, and all during the Enterprise's maiden voyage smacks of bad fanfic, more than anything else.
It's much the same with SW--the prequels made the Galaxy much, much smaller, and jammed in one ridiculous contrivance after another (Anakin building Threepio, etc.).
All that said, I don't think it would be a good thing for future SW films to go back and make pre-prequels!