Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Wounded (1991)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like... like old leather. And finally... becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The loyalty that you would so quickly dismiss does not come easily to my people, Gul Macet. You have much to learn about us. Benjamin Maxwell earned the loyalty of those who served with him. You know, in war... he was twice honored with the Federation's highest citation for courage and valor. And if he could not find a role for himself in peace, we can pity him - but we shall not dismiss him.

• [last lines] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Maxwell was right. Those ships were not carrying scientific equipment, were they? A research station within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? Cargo ships running with high-energy subspace fields that jam sensors?

  Gul Macet : If you believe the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain... why didn't you board it, as Maxwell requested?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I was here to protect the peace - a peace that I firmly believe is in the interests of both our peoples. If I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that you and I would not be having this pleasant conversation - and that ships on both sides would now be arming for war.

  Gul Macet : Captain, I assure you...

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet: we'll be watching.

• Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you and say, "This man was a fool."

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I'll accept the judgment of history.

• Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : [about Starfleet bureaucrats]  They don't know what's going on out here. But you should, Picard. You know what it's like to be under fire.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You weren't under fire.

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : Lives were at stake!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Whose lives?

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : We had to act now!

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Why?

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : [looks around]  Smells musty in here - like a bureaucrat's office.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If there is to be a lasting peace, Gul Macet, neither you nor I must allow any one man to undermine our efforts.

  [Macet smiles enigmatically] 

  Gul Macet : There are those who... crave war. Who need it. I am not one of them, Captain. And I'm beginning to see... that neither are you. We have had our full measure. The lasting peace begins here - with the two of us.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Why have you fired on us?

  Gul Macet : Curious question, Captain. In war, one attacks one's enemies.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You don't care for the Cardassians?

  Chief Miles O'Brien : I like them fine. It's just... Well, I know them. You learn to watch your back when you're around those people.

• [first lines] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [voiceover]  Captain's log, stardate 44429.6. We are on a mapping survey near the Cardassian sector. It has been nearly a year since a peace treaty ended the long conflict between the Federation and Cardassia.