Still amazed at the amount of people that can't wrap their heads around
this concept.
Not really seeing the relevance. Unless you're going for the tired old "but ur dvds havint ben ersad!!1" line. If so, then yes I'm clear on that, thanks. Hence "from continuity".
Not sure what the issue is here. The whole point of the reboot movies was to ditch the excess baggage of continuity and make Star Trek accessible to normal people. Are we now claiming that they didn't do that?
No. And the obtuseness of your position isn't helpful.
The new films are doing nothing different from the episode Parallels from TNG, with two exceptions. One, "prime" Spock, unlike "prime" Worf, makes no attempt to "return home" (largely, I suspect, because he has no mechanism with which to do so--unlike Worf, though, if memory serves, was helped from "home"). Two, the camera (our perspective) stays in the parallel universe rather than returning to the "prime" one--which continues on its merry path, unfolding as you remember it. The events of First Contact still happen--we're simply being carried down a separate path by the camera, so going forward from the new movies, we won't see the exact same events. That does NOT constitute "erased from continuity" any more than NYC no longer exists because I choose to drive from Montreal to Florida along a road that does not bring me in sight of NYC.