The Wounded
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 28 January 1991
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 44429.6
- DIRECTED BY
- Chip Chalmers
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 186
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Jeri Taylor; story by Stuart Charno & Sara Charno and Cy Chermak
A decorated Starfleet captain appears to have gone rogue, attacking the Cardassians in peacetime, and Picard must stop him before a fragile treaty collapses.
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The Enterprise is attacked by a Cardassian warship, whose commander, Gul Macet, says a Federation ship has destroyed a Cardassian science station without warning. The culprit is the USS Phoenix under Captain Benjamin Maxwell, a war hero whose family died at Cardassian hands. Ordered to find him, Picard takes Macet and two aides aboard. O'Brien, who served under Maxwell in the war, struggles with his own old hatred of the Cardassians. Maxwell keeps attacking, insisting that their ships are secretly arming for a new war. With the Phoenix readying to strike again, O'Brien beams over and talks his old captain down, the two men singing “The Minstrel Boy” together. Maxwell surrenders. Picard then warns Macet that he too believes Maxwell was right, and that the Federation will be watching.
- 01Introduces the Cardassians, who became central to Deep Space Nine.
- 02Marc Alaimo, making his third TNG appearance as Gul Macet, went on to play Gul Dukat throughout Deep Space Nine.
- 03“The Minstrel Boy” returns as music for one of O'Brien's final scenes, in the Deep Space Nine finale “What You Leave Behind”.