Kelvinverse

From H. G. Wells's radio play The War of the Worlds to the cinematic blockbuster Star Trek Kelvinverse movies, themes of invasion, conquest, and colonization are the bread and butter of science fiction.

The show responded to fan pleas to return the series to the “Prime” timeline and explored a hitherto under-represented era of Star Trek history—roughly a decade before The Original Series, placing it roughly analogous to the same time zone the “Kelvinverse” films were exploring.

In other words, the Kelvinverse versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and so on, are not the same characters as their “Prime” counterparts (“whatever our lives might have been ... our destinies have changed”).