Be Excellent To Each Other

the Enterprise rising out of Saturns rings.

An Admiral Archer is mentioned, who just happens to own a beagle - which Scotty managed to lose in transport, hence his posting on a backwater planet light years from anywhere.

He's an admiral. Remember, Scotty said he'd beamed an admiral's pet beagle somwhere unknown, and that's why he was in trouble.

Yes it does..

hmmm.. i did say yes it does...

But it's set in another timeline, so TOS will never happen after the movie.

As the original Spock is in it how can he exist if his time line has altered?

As I would understand it, in the original timeline, Spock and Nero disappeared into a black hole and are gone. They're in this new parallel universe instead, which split off from the original universe 25 years before the movie, when Nero first came through the black hole. We know TOS will never happen in this universe due to the timeline changes - not least because they can't go and visit Vulcan.

So Stardate time it is set between them (enterprise and TOS), but because of the destruction of Vulcan etc, the future has changed

But I assume the "old" timeline still exists and will still be the place where the novels and comics are set, except for any movie specific ones.

This is the first ever mission for Kirk's Enterprise (the NCC 1701 - the one from the original series and the first 3 movies). It's always been established that Kirk was not the first Captain of this Enterprise, Christopher Pike was.

...the whole section on the iceworld. Really? There was no more elegant and cohesive way you could have woven in the time-travel plot and Old Spock than that? A massive Exposition Dump and an even more massive coincidence that Kirk got marooned on the same world that Nero dumped Spock on? Why wouldn't Nero have just kept Spock on the bridge of his ship? Couldn't he have seen the destruction of Vulcan from there? Hmmm and ahem and come on now.

The time-travel thingamy was such a cool idea it deserved a lot better.

Sabotage

They should make the next one The Search For Spock II, with old Kirk trying to find out what the hell happened to his mate.

I don't think you could risk Spock being on the ship, he could have interferend.

old Kirk is most certainly dead by that point. Vulcans are long-lived, and Spock talks about it being 75 years or something since he first stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise

It's set some years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis. Nero and the crew of the Narada (at this point a fairly simple Romulan mining vessel) barely escape a gigantic supernova, and quickly head back to Romulus to warn the Senate that they believe this supernova could eventually wipe out most of the Empire, including Romulus itself. Ambassador Spock also believes this is a distinct possibilty, but neither he nor Nero can convince the Senate, whose own scientists believe the nova will die out before it causes any serious damage. Besides, the only known race with the technology to do anything about the supernova are the Vulcans, and the Romulans are not interested in accepting their help.

Nero takes Spock on board the Narada and secretly heads to Vulcan, in order to plead for help anyway from the Vulcan High Council and are joined in this effort by Ambassador Picard and Data (B4 from Nemesis with Data's personality and memories uploaded), who is now Captain of the Enterprise-E. The High Council however are reluctant to provide any help without officially being asked by the Romulans, which causes Nero to head off in a huff to try and save his family before Romulus is destroyed.

Eventually Spock, Picard and Data are able to convince the High Council to allow Spock to take the Jellyfish (Spock's ship from the movie) with the Red Matter to head into Romulan space and stop the supernova (Spock volunteers due to his age - this will almost certainly be a suicide mission). However all of the delays caused by the High Council means that Spock is not able to reach the supernova before Romulus is destroyed. Likewise, Nero also fails to rescue his family in time before having to witness the destruction of his home. As a result, he and his crew shave their heads and tattoo their faces (apparentely a sign of their mourning) and locate the Romulan Senate, who have escaped the destruction in their own ship. He kills the Praetor for failing to do anything to stop the destruction of Romulus, then makes the remaining Senate members give him access to a top secret Romulan weapons research base so that he can outfit the Narada with super-advanced weaponry.

Nero then heads off to intercept Spock and prevent him from stopping the supernova, as he wants it to continue to destroy the Federation like it has the Romulan Empire. However, Spock has already launched the Red Matter by the time the Narada catches up to him and both ships gets sucked through the resultant black hole.