LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-13 AT 03:35 AM (EST)
 
In the early seasons, he's not nearly as maverick... unless you're talking about the twit from nuTrek, who wouldn't have made it to Lt JG in the classic series.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington