Well, considering Star Trek: Enterprise still went with the whole individual ships having individual assignment patches route when the mirror universe crew finds the Defiant or Valiant or whatever, I'd say it's pretty damn hard to figure that the official stance had retconned that out of existence.

Anyway, I never had a problem with Spock. He was one of the few highlights of that movie. It was Kirk that constantly pissed me the fuck off. And the fact that he went from suspended cadet to captain of the flagship in the span of an hour shifts the movie from good time implausiblity to eye-rolling what the fuckery.

So... are we trying to do new things with these characters, or are we just trying to get them to exactly where they were in the original series as soon as possible? Choose a direction, guys, because waffling somewhere in the middle led to all sorts of nonsensical screw-ups. I'd much rather have had a completely true to canon movie or a completely rebooted movie than this lukewarm compromise.