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Originally Posted by Matata
I think of it as Nero originally went back in time for revenge, but by acting in a manner that altered time, he created a new timeline. Like a branch growing a new branch on a tree. He was successful in extracting his revenge on Spock-Prime from his time, so mission accomplished there.
Spock-Prime originally stayed in the shadows, hoping to avoid creating a new timeline. At the end, he realized that time had irrevocably changed, and that his timeline was intact and seperate from this new timeline.
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See that might be a cleaner understanding of it. But then you would have a new timeline every time Star Trek went back in time. The multiverse concept ala Yesterdays Enterprise makes more sense to me.