Citations:Kelvinverse

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the alternate universe featured in the reboot Star Trek films"

 * 2017, Bob Vosseller, "Fun & Recruiting At Geek Fest", Lucky 7 Journal, Spring/Summer 2017, page 16:
 * He donned a blue Kelvinverse uniform. Another fan wore a Kelvinverse red uniform and the most colorful (if an alien in black and white can be described as colorful) came as the Cheronian from "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield," which ironically had aired on the H&I network featuring classic Trek.
 * 2018, Drogyn, "Flawed Visionary", Star Trek (magazine), May 2018, page 89:
 * What you may have heard out loud, Drogyn, is the film's 2009 Blu-ray upgrade edition audio commentary, where website editor Anthony Pascale and Kelvinverse writer and producer Damon Lindelof wondered aloud about this very topic: Was the "flawed genius" of the film's more multi-layered version of Cochrane meant to echo the Great Bird [Gene Roddenberry] himself?
 * 2020, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 30:
 * From H. G. Wells's radio play The War of the Worlds to the cinematic blockbuster Star Trek Kelvinverse movies, themes of invasion, conquest, and colonization are the bread and butter of science fiction.
 * 2021, A. J. Black, Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise, page 150:
 * The show responded to fan pleas to return the series to the “Prime” timeline and explored a hitherto under-represented era of Star Trek history—roughly a decade before The Original Series, placing it roughly analogous to the same time zone the “Kelvinverse” films were exploring.
 * 2022, William Proctor, "Star Trek (2009)", in The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (eds. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, & Stefan Rabitsch), unnumbered page:
 * In other words, the Kelvinverse versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and so on, are not the same characters as their “Prime” counterparts (“whatever our lives might have been ... our destinies have changed”).
 * 2022, Ryan Britt, Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World, page 368:
 * These films are set in what is sometimes called the “Abramsverse” or the “Kelvinverse” and, as such, don't interact (much) with the timeline of the other Star Treks.