Well, Nemesis went poorly, so it kind of threw the pattern out of whack:
V: Suck
And a Romulan War movie has been talked about for a while, so chances are good any future Trek movie will touch upon that. Hiring an outsider who knows little about Trek might not be the greatest idea, they did that with X, and I think that helped it to flop (well, the lame-ass plot certainly tanked the movie thouroughly too.) But then people who've worked on Trek for a while (I need not mention any names, since someone else will anyway) haven't exactly been delivering quality Trek lately, so fresh blood for a movie might help too.