That's one possibility, another is that the series was never part of the TOS/TNG/DS9 timeline at all. I don't think this theory really forecloses many possibilities.
The totally official, all head-canon Unified Timeline Theory of the Trek Multiverse
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I just wonder if Cochrane in the TOS/TNG/DS9 continuity was meant to fortuitously encounter the Vulcans on his first flight out.
Prior to the movie "First Contact" the only thing we knew about Zephram Cochrane was that he was from Alpha Centauri and invented the warp drive. He could even have been an alien that looked human. Some fiction (novels, fanfiction) even used that hypothesis. In the novel "Strangers from the Sky" the accepted historical version of First Contact happened between Humans and human looking aliens from Alpha Centauri (the real first contact was a clandestine meeting between Humans and Vulcans with the aid or time traveling Kirk and Spock. Cochrane was not involved in the story).
Well, the CBS Official TimeLine is 2 TimeLines only.
Prime & Kelvin.
What Serveaux is proposing makes the most sense by accounting for Real World and In-Universe events.
But until somebody can reach the heads of Star Trek Management and authorize that change, we're stuck with CBS claiming only 2 timelines.
Personally, I'm on the 3 TimeLines team =D
Does anybody know somebody who might know Rod Roddenberry (Gene's Son) who has some influence within the Star Trek property?
Prime & Kelvin.
What Serveaux is proposing makes the most sense by accounting for Real World and In-Universe events.
But until somebody can reach the heads of Star Trek Management and authorize that change, we're stuck with CBS claiming only 2 timelines.
Personally, I'm on the 3 TimeLines team =D
Does anybody know somebody who might know Rod Roddenberry (Gene's Son) who has some influence within the Star Trek property?
Here's Mr. Roddenberry's twitter account, if you want to DM him your thoughts and suggestions. Good luck.
Random Tweets from Trek fans isn't likely to affect him.
Rod Roddenberry isn't known to be the most "Hardcore Trekkie". He likes the stuff, but still has some detachment from it due to Gene being his dad.
I used to go with the ST:VIII timeline branch off idea but these days I go with the idea that all the shows and movies are in separate continuities that share elements, either verbatim or altered, from each other.
Thanks.
I don't mind if Official Continuity doesn't agree. I'm not a CBS stockholder, and their opinion one way or another isn't something I'm too fussed about.
That’s kind of pointless. I would guess that any response about this from a CBS exec would go something like, ‘Yeah, sure, whatever, asshole. Believe what you want. Just keep watching our fucking shows.”
Well it's not like this "three timeline" idea would contribute anything to the franchise. Even if it was a remote possibility for it to be made official what would be gained from it? What stories could be told with it that couldn't be told without it?
Well, they could stop sweating over dumb explanations for annoying things, and fans could stop arguing about minutiae. That would be worth a lot, just never having to see the show writers propose one more stupid "Okay, all this important shit happened but we all agree never to tell anyone about it forever and ever, Amen." 
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If they had just said that DSC was a reboot instead of shoehorning it into the ‘prime’ timeline, it wouldn’t have even been an issue. But, whatever. It is what it is.
As for the thought experiment as it pertains to VOY, saying that the entire show takes place in the new timeline is also needlessly complicated, in my opinion. FC takes place halfway though VOY’s 3rd season. If the timeline just changed in minuscule ways by that point, then no one would have really noticed the change. And that would explain why 7of9 knew about the events of FC, since at that point VOY would be taking place in the alternate timeline.
As for the thought experiment as it pertains to VOY, saying that the entire show takes place in the new timeline is also needlessly complicated, in my opinion. FC takes place halfway though VOY’s 3rd season. If the timeline just changed in minuscule ways by that point, then no one would have really noticed the change. And that would explain why 7of9 knew about the events of FC, since at that point VOY would be taking place in the alternate timeline.
Yes. If we assume that the show is part of a reboot or branch that occurred in FC, everything is pretty simple - that covers ENT as well as the upcoming SNW. Frees them up to make Kirk in his eventual inevitable appearance into whatever suits them without having to invent still more and newer fig leaf explanations for the divergence - as well as enabling them to rescue Pike from the fate he foresaw, if they so choose.
Which would be great, because Mount is the type of cornerstone actor the franchise needs. One that could be around for decades. Like Shatner and Stewart.
What timeline is Harry Groener in?
The one where there are no shrimp.
