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Yeah. Star Trek has always been a nice bit of utopic "the good guys can win by being the good guys" optimism. Even the shows that had episodes where the good guys tread into shady areas - Deep Space Nine, Voyager on occasion - still took care to have the characters recognize that they were treading in dangerous areas and pull back from them at the first opportunity.
The "burn" basically takes all of that and says "that good guy stuff all fell apart because a child screamed. Turns out the Federation's members didn't believe in the Federation as an ideal, just as a space superpower, and so didn't bother putting it back together again once all the ships blew up."
That makes for a good science fiction premise but not for a good Star Trek premise, IMO.