From the looks of it, they aren't building from Enterprise's time travel nonsense -- with the exception of the Kelvin's art direction.
We have a whole new level of nonsense. In canon, Kirk grew up off world until his encounter with gov. Kodos
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Jame...#Early_History
From all indications, Nero (the film's villain and horribly named) goes back in time and kills Kirk's father. There he gets sent to his <
> to live.
Skip forward, he washes out of starfleet after cheating the kobyashu maru test and lurks around starfleet bars trying to pickup girls. Like Uhura.
From there, it seems to get progressively star-warsian.