Yes, this makes it sound like he's in the cold opening, which may or may not involve the crashing ship... but probably sets up Elba's villain status.
A couple of sites say the scene was already filmed in Vancouver. (Maybe that's also been said in the un-translated link above, if so, my apologies.)
Here's a link to one of the sites reporting it's already been filmed:
http://www.football-italia.net/74731/ancelotti-star-trek
Well, I assumed it was already filmed -- they wrapped shooting a week ago. It's a bit odd that it never came out until now (not that it's that big a deal).
But they can still have pick-ups, additional audio recording (ADR) and other units filming prior to the final edit is done.