Star Trek

[Alex]

Yes. Many of those references are from actual episodes of The Original Series.

A lot of the Christopher Pike stuff comes from the two-part episode The Menagerie (the one that reused a lot of the original pilot before Shatner was attached).

The work history of Kirk prior to the Enterprise was mentioned in a couple episodes ("Court Martial" puts him aboard the USS Republic as his first duty, and "Obsession" puts him on the USS Farragut about a decade getting the Enterprise). This is an example of the canon not being consistent depending on how you align things it took him 8-15 years to get his first ship.

Then there's the fact that stardates are used in all the episodes and in the movie placing them in time relative to each other.

By those dates, the start of the original series is 2265 and the events of the movie are in 2258 so there is at least a 7 year gap. However, the movie also moves the initial launch of the enterprise from 2245 to 2258.

So Kirk is getting the ship at least 7 years earlier in his life than in the original timeline and the Enterprise is about 20 years younger when he gets it in the new timeline than in the original.

I'm not really too bothered by it all. Timeline is always bent to the needs of the story so as long as the story is ok then I won't be too bothered by it. Trying to make the pieces fit is just part of the fun.