One I think we can all get behind... Also fantastic that they took the dude who said that and SURROUNDED him with badass women on the bridge. Seriously they've got like Spock and Pike on the bridge and that's it.
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I think star trek is no stranger to the idiot ball or designated asshole tropes. Conflicts between the major groups (good guys/protags vs evil/antags) are compounded with conflicts within the groups, and some of the 'internal conflicts' were pretty silly when you consider that they had apparently been selected as elite examples of federation folk.
Maybe it's been too long since I've watched parts of the series, but from my hazy memory it seemed like character consistency wasn't all that important outside of the 'major' characters.
This is one reason to appreciate the idea Roddenberry put forward in his TMP novelization, that Starfleet officers are intentionally selected from the slightly less intelligent and progressive candidates, the ones who aren’t perfectly suited to the true utopia back home.