So the film is indeed a reboot then, right? It exists in a different reality/universe/continuity from Shatner and Nimoy's Kirk and Spock?

(Critics and journalists seem to be confused over whether the film is a prequel or a reboot. I've even come across an item in which a journalist describes the film as both a prequel AND a reboot. Well, it can be either a prequel or reboot. It can't be both.)