-Removed-I didn't really see this line in your OP until now.
The J..J. Abrams-directed movies are actually an alternate timeline. This is why they do not follow canon.
This leads to some weird decisions being made in the Trek universe of companies.
In the MMO RPG Star Trek Online, Romulus (the Romulan homeworld) has been destroyed (which was the alternate timeline's ostensible reason for them destroying Vulcan - you can visit where Romulus was in the game, the whole system is toast), but Vulcan has not been destroyed (you can still beam down to Vulcan).