I think King Daniel was pointing out that Spock went back in time during his initial cross over into the Kelvin timeline. Interestingly, Nero only time traveled, since he was the splitting incident.
Ah, you mean the 25 years between the dates of arrival would count in Spock's disfavor there, making him hop tracks? I guess my argument would be that he came through the same points, despite this hiccup, and was part of the splitting incident himself.
I also thought that's an interesting connection, but they didn't all go very far and didn't switch universes. Maybe Spock was more affected cause he went to the ice age, while Kirk seemed fine cause he only went to the musketeer era...?
This is an interesting take on the TOS adventure indeed. Although to be fair, there was no "affected" in evidence there, beyond Spock choosing to take liberties. Nothing about Mr Atoz' fearmongering seemed supported by the events themselves, there being no real harm to traveling unprepared. (However, being prepared might do you harm - the device was designed for banishment, after all, so injecting every departee with a kills-you-if-you-try-to-return poison would appear prudent.)
Timo Saloniemi