And if the Kelvin was in the Prime Universe, the viewscreens, consoles, and weapons must have took a step backward between 2233 and 2265.
Like we see the Kelvin firing tons of lasers/phasers. (rapid-fire)
http://trekmovie.com/images/st09/intelkelvinphasers.jpg
Then we see the TOS Enterprise firing like, one phaser.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/4/49/Enterprise_fires_on_planet.jpg
What happened to these turrets in the prime universe?
I disagree somewhat with these assessments. Even in modern times, it's possible for something to look primitive but actually be very advanced. The iPod is probably the best modern example: it's just a screen with one dial. And yet that one dial does everything, from menu to volume to upload. Even a CD player with a touchscreen interface looks more advanced b/c it has more buttons and it's flashier, but it's obsolete compared to the iPod. Who knows how Treknology fares?
As for weapons, we've already seen how appearance of weapons can be deceiving. The TOS Defiant retains the same look and feel from the 60s, but it was ripping apart 22nd century ships whose weaponry was made with much more advanced CGI, for example. Likewise, DS9's Defiant has rapidfire pulse cannons that appear powerful and devastating, but Braxton's future timeship had a simple beam weapon that nearly split Voyager apart.
And for consoles, in TOS we never really saw that many computer screen displays. Camera tricks would show characters looking into screens, but they'd rarely show us what was on the screen, like Spock's scope or Sulu's pop-up viewfinder. For all we know, the internals of Spock's scope look just as impressive as anything on the JJprise.
Finally, from memory-alpha:
According to
Star Trek screenwriter
Roberto Orci, the telemetry data recorded by the
Kelvin of the technologically advanced
Narada during the battle was probably brought back to Starfleet via the surviving shuttles. Orci also implied that Starfleet's exposure to this data may explain why its ships and technology appear different in the alternate universe.
[3] Director
J.J. Abrams also said in an interview with MTV
[4] that readings from the
Narada "inspired ideas and technology that wouldn't have advanced otherwise."
We see something similar in the Prime Universe: ships like the Defiant were made after the Enterprise-D first encountered the Borg. B/c of that one encounter, there were rapid advancements in Starfleet technology (just ask Sisko and Shelby). The Defiant and the Sovereign look almost nothing like the ships that came before them.