Yeah, sounds stupid. The Kelvin alternate universe has clear kick-off point, anything happening before Star Trek 2009 would be within the main canon. An "origin" story... origin of what? Star Trek has a pretty well-defined fictional history and we've seen all of its most important events on screen except maybe the Romulan War that Enterprise didn't quite get to. Just sounds like some suits sat down and thought it was a good idea.
However, I'll be surprised if this does actually get made. Both Star Wars and Trek have over a decade-long graveyard of "x director has been attached to a new movie! X writer is writing the script and here's some super vague plot detail". Until a cast is in front of a camera I don't count on anything actually happening. I read an article the other day that Patrick Stewart had a script for a Picard movie too.
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