Quotes
| Picard: |
"Captain's Log, Stardate 44429.6. We're on a mapping survey near the Cardassian sector. It has been nearly a year since peace treaty ended the long conflict between the Federation and Cardassia." |
| Picard: |
"Last time I was in this sector, I was on the Stargazer running at warp speed ahead of a Cardassian warship." |
| Troi: |
"Running, Captain? You? That's hard to believe." |
| Picard: |
"Believe it." |
| Picard: |
"I'd been sent to make preliminary overtures for a truce. And I had lowered my shields as a gesture of goodwill. The Cardassians were not impressed. They had taken out most of my weapons and damaged the impulse engines before I could regroup and run." |
| Worf: |
"The Cardassians have no honor. I do not trust them." |
| Troi: |
"They are our allies now, Mister Worf. We have to trust them." |
| Worf: |
"Trust is earned. Not given away." |
| Picard: |
"I hope their scout ship makes contact soon. It's never a good idea to stay too long in a Cardassian border without making your intentions known." |
| O'Brien: |
"What, wh...what is it?" |
| Keiko: |
"Kelp buds, plankton loaf, and sea berries." |
| O'Brien: |
"Oh. Sweetheart, I'm not a fish." |
| O'Brien: |
"Isn't that what marriage is about...sharing?" |
| Keiko: |
"What kind of food?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Scalloped potatoes, mutton shanks, ox tails and cabbage." |
| Keiko: |
"Kind of heavy." |
| O'Brien: |
"Ah, I can still remember the aromas when mother was cooking." |
| Keiko: |
"She cooked?" |
| O'Brien: |
"She didn't believe in a replicator. She thought real food was more nutritious." |
| Keiko: |
"She handled real meat? She touched it and cut it?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Yeah, like a master chef. She was fantastic!" |
| O'Brien: |
"But I'll make something special for you tonight. You'll love it, I promise." |
| Keiko: |
"Okay. Maybe I'll have something special for you tonight too." |
| Picard: |
"This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation starship Enterprise." |
| Macet: |
"I am Gul Macet of the Cardassian ship Tragor." |
| Picard: |
"Why have you fired on us?" |
| Macet: |
"Curious question, Captain. In war one attacks one's enemies." |
| Picard: |
"Gul Macet, the Federation and the Cardassians have struggled too hard for peace...to abandon it so easily." |
| Macet: |
"We are not the ones who have abandoned it, captain." |
| Hayden: |
"Jean-Luc, I don't have to tell you the Federation is not prepared for a new sustained conflict. You must preserve the peace, no matter what the cost." |
| Picard: |
"Captain's Log, Supplemental. We have entered Cardassian territory and are proceeding on our quest to locate the Phoenix." |
| O'Brien: |
"But who I choose to spend my free time with...that's my business." |
| Keiko: |
"What's what you're singing?" |
| O'Brien: |
"What? Oh, it's just a little song. A bunch of us used to sing it together on the Rutledge. I hadn't thought about it in years." |
| Keiko: |
"What's it about?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Oh, it's about war...and glory." |
| Keiko: |
"What are these little dark things?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Capers." |
| Picard: |
"Gul Macet, you see we are doing everything in our power to reach the Phoenix." |
| Macet: |
"Yes, and accomplishing nothing, I'm sorry to say." |
| Picard: |
"Mister Data, estimated time to intercept with the Phoenix." |
| Data: |
"At our present speed of warp four, sixteen hours, forty-four minutes." |
| Picard: |
"Ensign, increase to warp nine." |
| Picard: |
"I think, 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...feels so humiliated one can't remember feeling any other way." |
| O'Brien: |
"The only people left alive were in an outlying district of the settlement. I was sent there with a squad to reinforce them. Cardassians were advancing on us. Moving through the streets, destroying, killing. I was with a group of women and children, and two Cardassian soldiers burst in. I stunned one of them... the other one jumped me. We struggled. One of the women threw me a phaser, and I fired. The phaser was set at maximum. The man just...just incinerated there before my eyes. I'd never killed anything before. When I was a kid I'd, I'd worry about swatting a mosquito. It's not you I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became because of you." |
| Macet: |
"There are those who...crave war, who need it. I am not one of them, Captain. And I am beginning to see...that neither are you. We have had our full measure. The lasting peace begins here...with the two of us." |
| Picard: |
"Captain's Log, Stardate 44431.7. We have estabished communication with Captain Maxwell and he has agreed to come on board." |
| Riker: |
"Welcome aboard, sir. I'm Commander Riker, first officer." |
| Maxwell: |
"I know all about you, commander. Fine work you did with the Borg. We all owe you on that one." |
| Riker: |
"Thank you, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
"O'Brien? Miles O'Brien?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Hello, captain. Good to see you again." |
| Maxwell: |
"How are you? I had no idea you were on the Enterprise. This is my tactical officer on the Rutledge. Best I ever had." |
| O'Brien: |
"Thank you, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
"O'Brien has the ability to size up a situation instantly. Then come up with options to fit all contingencies. Remarkable." |
| O'Brien: |
"Well if that's true, I learned it from you, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
[Laughs] "But you got that silver tongue by kissing the stone, right?" |
| Maxwell: |
"You must think I've gone mad." |
| Picard: |
"The thought had occured." |
| Maxwell: |
"Picard, I have to tell you. I was grateful when I realized it was you Starfleet had sent after me. Someone who knows what it's really like out here." |
| Maxwell: |
"Smells musty around here...like a bureaucrat's office!" |
| Picard: |
"You have killed nearly seven hundred people. And you have taken us to the brink of war." |
| Maxwell: |
"I have prevented war! Or at the very least delayed it a good long time." |
| Maxwell: |
"You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you, and say, 'This man was a fool.'" |
| Picard: |
"I'll accept the judgement of history." |
| Picard: |
"We're not going after any more Cardassian ships. You're going to return to your bridge...and set a course for Starbase 211. The Phoenix and the Enterprise will return to Federation space together. Those are Starfleet's orders. I will...permit you the dignity of retaining your command during the voyage. But the only alternative is to put you in the Brig, and tow your ship back to the starbase in disgrace." |
| Picard: |
"Captain's Log, Supplemental. With the Phoenix in close formation, we are proceeding directly to Starbase 211." |
| Maxwell: |
"What the hell happend to this war..." |
| O'Brien: |
"There is no war...... The war is over..." |
| Maxwell: |
"The Cardassians live to make war." |
| O'Brien: |
"That's what everybody thinks about the enemy." |
| Maxwell: |
"You were on Cetleg. You saw what they did." |
| O'Brien: |
"Yes, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
"What was the name of that fellow who always hung around you like a puppy?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Will Kaden. 'Stompy'." |
| Maxwell: |
"'Stompy'! 'Stomp...'" [Laughs] "Was cool under fire as a mountain lake." |
| O'Brien: |
"Yes, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
"He died at Cetleg, didn't he?" |
| O'Brien: |
"Yes, sir." |
| Maxwell: |
"What was that song of his? One he always sang? One I liked?" |
| O'Brien: |
"'The minstrel boy to the war has gone, in the ranks of death you will find him.'" |
| Maxwell and O'Brien: |
"'His father's sword he hath girded on, and his wild harp slung behind him. Lands of songs said the warrior-bard, though all the world betrays thee. One sword at least thy rights shall guard, one faithful harp shall praise thee.'" |
| Maxwell: |
"I'm not going to win this one, am I, Chief?" |
| Picard: |
"Captain's Log, Supplemental. Captain Maxwell has turned his ship over to his first officer and transported aboard the Enterprise. I have confined him to quarters for the return voyage." |
| Macet: |
"Well, his loyalty is admirable...even if it is misplaced." |
| Picard: |
"The loyalty that you would so quickly dismiss does not come easily with 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." |
| Macet: |
"You are welcome to your opinion, Captain. I, for one, am grateful that he is under lock and key." |
| Picard: |
"One more thing, Gul Macet. 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?" |
| Macet: |
"If you believe that the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain, why didn't you board it as Maxwell had requested?" |
| Picard: |
"I was here to protect the peace. A peace that I firmly believe is in the interest of both our peoples. If I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that both sides would now be arming for war." |
| Macet: |
"Captain, I assure you..." |
| Picard: |
"Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet...we'll be watching." |
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