And all of the alien species are already friends...that scene when Sarek showed up with the Orion and other Superfriends? It just doesn't make sense.

The whole Zefram Cochrane part of history creating warp drive and the first meeting with the first aliens being Vulcans just gets obliterated in this series.

Did you know the character of Zefram Cochrane first appeared in a 1967 episode of the original series? And he was the inventor of warp drive who helped unite the universe?
Boy, talk about a canonical idea holding until one of the movies...30 years later, wisely continues with it