User blog comment:Harmonmj13/Terminator Fans Rejoice!/@comment-12271231-20141205141459/@comment-24787182-20141205144509

Its the original timeline, but the T-800 is protecting Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese from the T-1000 (which is the result of the T-800 killing the original 1984 T-800). And T-800 raised Sarah after her parents died and trainsher to use a gun (and to show no emotion) [I litteraly read this from the Entertainment Weekly article about Genisys]. In other words, the T-800 rebooted the Terminator franchise.