PLAESE correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I had read a trekmovie interview with J.J.Abrams where he said that the KELVIN was responding to a Klingon distress call! I also remember in that same interview that Orci or Abrams said that by the time the distress call gets to the Kelvin, the NARADA had already destroyed 47 Klingon Battlecruisers! the reason I bring this up now is because I'm wondering if those 800 lives may have been Klingon? Also I thought it odd that they would specifically say ''47'' Klingon ships.
THAT might cause a pretty big change in the timeline!