New Star Trek film won't feature legacy characters or use the Kelvin timeline

Nerdist, citing an Empire interview via Comic Book Movie, reports that directors John Francis Daley and Johnathan Goldstein say their Star Trek film won’t feature any previously seen characters. Goldstein placed it “a little further in the future,” and Daley clarified that it won’t take place in the Kelvin timeline of the J.J. Abrams films.