Fuller had a number of things he wanted to accomplish with Discovery. He wanted a female of color lead. He wanted to depict Star Trek's first openly gay characters. He wanted to explore things he thought had been hinted at in the TOS past but not fully explored. He wanted to tie together some threads that connect to the TOS spin-offs (wasn't there talk that at some point he contemplated Discovery jumping to the future?).
Given all that does it seem to you that part of the original premise was to explore what happens when a character feels a moral imperative to take actions that she/he thinks are right in opposition to what they are supposed to do. That's what Captain Maxwell did in 'The Wounded'. He was right about the Cardassians and Michael was right about how to preemptively strike the Klingons before they could mass for war. That said obviously Michael and Maxwell were obligated to follow a chain of command. They didn't want to do that and had to face the consequences of their actions.
I think Fuller looked at 'The Wounded' and saw a great premise. That premise makes for one of TNG'S best episodes and I think Fuller was right to see it as a great idea with which to launch Discovery (of course it is not the only issue to be teased out of the story--tribalism is a huge issue the war deals with not to mention demagogues). But I think Fuller was right to identify this as something you could start a new series with.
Given all that does it seem to you that part of the original premise was to explore what happens when a character feels a moral imperative to take actions that she/he thinks are right in opposition to what they are supposed to do. That's what Captain Maxwell did in 'The Wounded'. He was right about the Cardassians and Michael was right about how to preemptively strike the Klingons before they could mass for war. That said obviously Michael and Maxwell were obligated to follow a chain of command. They didn't want to do that and had to face the consequences of their actions.
I think Fuller looked at 'The Wounded' and saw a great premise. That premise makes for one of TNG'S best episodes and I think Fuller was right to see it as a great idea with which to launch Discovery (of course it is not the only issue to be teased out of the story--tribalism is a huge issue the war deals with not to mention demagogues). But I think Fuller was right to identify this as something you could start a new series with.
