Yes, I know that, I just think they wanted to remake it, but obviously they can’t exactly do that.
A lot of the fan community talked about it, but I don’t think anybody from inside the studio ever mentioned it. And with good reason, it would be a trap. Part of the whole point of blowing up the old timeline and starting from scratch was to free themselves from all that canon. If they made JJST-2 a remake of ST-2 they lose all that freedom. Now I do think they want to mine the structure of it, but that’s just being smart. WOK was the best movie of the original 10, it’s a good blue print for how to tell a good story with these characters. There’s a lot of WOK flavor in JJST-1 (naval battle structure, very personal conflict, Kirk the warrior), which is a lot of why the movie was as successful and enjoyable as it was.