I believe that it was stated in the Entertainment Weekly article back in October, where we saw the first images on the Kelvin, -- I think they used words to the effect that it was "before our Captain Kirk was born" -- and also that Jim Kirk's father George Samuel, Senior was the Kelvin's executive officer. It's been repeated a few times since then.Since the view is from the bridge of the Enterprise (with Kirk aboard) and since the destruction of the Kelvin was supposed to have taken place at just about the time Kirk was being born, I suspect that the wreckage is of something other than the Kelvin (and quite a few something others, at that.)
True, can someone show me something that directly says it's destroyed while he's a kid however? I havn't seen that yet.
And if so I would have to agree with cooleddie74.
Mmmk well I guess I'll go with that. Still it's EW though. I'd like to hear it from the writers or see it on screen.
In that case... seeing as we're a few centuries off and I doubt Spock brought back a Sovereign class timeship...