I'm pretty sure
E-DUB was joking. I thought it was pretty funny. Could you imagine it?
...and then, it's engines straining futileley against the instense gravimetric forces, Ambassador Spock's ship was sucked into the black ho--
*last few pages left blank for dramatic effect*
Anywho, for those of you taking it seriously,
Watching the Clock firmly established that the novelverse will survive beyond the prime-verse events JJ's first Trek movie.