It’s been confirmed by showrunner Brian Fuller to be set in the Prime timeline.
I don’t recall posting in this thread before, but since the recent flurry of announcements, here’s some thoughts -
I was really looking forward to this new ‘multiple crews’ show, but was sorely disappointed that the powers-that-be decided to show some very unfinished ‘test’ footage as the first preview! On top of that, the new ship that was shown just looks like a poorly-redesigned version of the better proportioned McQuarrie artwork, as far as I’m concerned. Sure, McQuarrie’s ‘nacelles’ look more like ‘rockets’ in his renderings, but I equally dislike the look of the red ‘nacelle’ lights on this version - the ‘revolving’ lights on the TOS-era ‘Enterprise’ were far more interesting-looking.
Ho hum. On the other hand, the new title sounds fine and I quite liked the music that was used.
However, if this show turns out to have too many elements in it that I dislike…then I’ll simply ‘imagine’ that it occurs in the same separate ‘alternative universe’ to the TOS show/TOS movies that I choose to stick all the other ‘Trek’ shows, ‘Generations’ movie, and J.J.'s 'Kelvin Timeline movies into… 😉
In the meantime, I see that the fan vids have started already - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzfgu3_3XXk