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No, please continue. I'm very interested in people's attitudes to that rise in vigilante media. It's a fairly big thing at the moment and it's the only thing keeping the comic companies alive (srsly, Marvel is floating on its movie sales these days, not its continuously bombing traditional comics department). I honestly have never seen large enough parts of either TOS or TNG to remember much about them so I can't really comment.

I think the one thing that can be said about this film was that it tried to set everything up as ~*~*Exceptional Circumstances*~*~ within its own universe as validation for the vigilantism, what with the time travel and Nero's level of potential destruction and the mass death of all the other ships before the Enterprise got to Vulcan, and so on and so forth. And the characters were constructed as being thoroughly exceptional themselves - they're genius level, all of them, and the only thing we're led to believe is their possible flaws in terms of their work is their lack of experience. So they're kind of like implicit superheroes within their own universe, only without the webswinging or the supersuit and such, a lot like Alias was.