Ya I really don’t get that there was to be no conflict. There was tension among characters on Star Trek , just as we see on other shows.
SHUT UP, WESLEY!....................
But it was mostly comical and light. No real “hate”.
Bones and Spock, for instance. Or Quark and Odo on DS9.
Guess they forgot about Lieutenant Stiles’ animosity against Spock in the “Balance Of Terror” episode, when the resemblance between Romulans and Vulcans (and thus their common heritage) was revealed.
Yeah
Who can forget that episode- “The Omega Glory”, where. Kirk had to stop Federation Captain Tracy from his brutal genocide against the ‘Yangs’ in an attempt to safeguard a “fountain of youth” on the planet, which turned out to be an illusion – The one where JTK gives a stirring reading of the Constitution preamble to the locals, basically reaffirming American ideals.
Nowadays, Progressives would probably ignore Tracy’s selfish motives & brutality, and applaud him for standing with the Koms against Yang imperialism and hegemony, and state that their ancestors deserved to be kicked out of their land for their past sins…