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Judging by how things were even at the start, it seems like it really was an alternate timeline even in the beginning...only Spock comes from the original line. (basically too much is already different for this to be the original timeline even at Kirk's birth).
One suggestion I've heard is that the this can be an entirel different timeline, or this could be a new timeline that started in Star Trek: First Contact with Picard failing to clean up his mess. This results in Star Trek: Enterprise and possibly this version of Star Trek (as Archer is mentioned).
Though I would find it somewhat amusing if in one of these films, the Enterprise is eitehr destroyed or severly damaged, and at the end of the film, Kirk and crew are given a new ship, or their old one heavily refitted....and it looks nearly identical to the 1960s Enterprise. (since these films so far are still taking place in the late 2250s while the original series was the late 2260s).
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