10 Star Trek Characters Who Don't Deserve The Hate

10. Vice-Admiral Alynna Nechayev

Vice-Admiral Alynna Nechayev is perhaps nobody's favourite Admiral, butting heads with Jean-Luc, Riker, and Sisko along the way. Having said that, hers was not simply a case of ego-driven rank-pulling. Nechayev was often dispatched when the situation at hand was among the most unpleasant that Starfleet had to face.

Consider Chain Of Command, Journey's End, and The Maquis. In the former case, she relieved Picard of command so that he could be assigned to a dangerous mission to destroy biological weapons, while in the latter two, she was tasked with forcibly removing, then policing, Federation settlers from their homes.

As the flag officer in all cases, she couldn't afford to show any weakness, which has over the years been taken for a brash, unfeeling attitude toward her officers. 

In the pantheon of Starfleet badmirals, she doesn't even feature. She may be blunt, but if one inspects her actions carefully, one finds that she always acted with Starfleet's best interests at heart - even if that ruffled a few feathers along the way.