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Hmmm, yes, in that sense of going over details, it breaks with canon even more than I thought, and yep - even in the new timeline.
Which is kinda what I like about it. It's just an obvious literary device, not even interally consistent on its own terms. It's a reboot, with a line or two thrown in for how it could possibly be slightly more like Superman Returns and slightly less like Batman Begins.
I've been with Star Trek for my entire life, for all intents and purposes, and I'm an old man. So I'm going to assume that most people are very far removed from the original series, and all that matters was a way to get new versions of Spock, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov and Sulu aboard The Enterprise. They did this in a way that cheats absolutely everything ... but avoids the blunderbuss "more realistic" re-introductions of, say, ST:The Motion Picture, and breezes through it in a more lightweight Star Treky style in a far more entertaining and enjoyable "first" film.
Cheaters, yes. But as long as it was funny, says Roger Rabbit ... and as long as it was great, says I.
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