Never quite understood Roddenberry's insistance on "no conflict" in the initial stages of TNG. Pretty much a good chunk of TOS was the "big three" arguing with each other, or the guest crewman of the week questioning the Captain's orders.


Even the rest of Starfleet was shown to be a bit messed up from time to time. There's so many episodes dealing with corrupt captains and admirals that it pretty much spread to the rest of the franchise (including some of the movies) as a cliche.