There was a comparison to ESB, being that it was a good way to make a sequel to SW. I said that the ST can’t work the same way, because it will either feel like more of the same, and get old, or it will differentiate too much to feel like a SW film. The reason the original sequels to Star Wars worked well, is that they were continuing the story of the same characters in the same conflict, and was just bringing more closure to the story. For the ST, they want new characters and a new conflict, but they want it to feel the same way. So, they have put new characters in old roles, and emulated the old conflict with the new. This doesn’t work as well because it’s not continuing the same plot, but it still just feels like rehashing the same plot.

EDIT: The "under any circumstances part of the post was probably pushing it, but that just comes from my personal view, without taking into account other tastes.