Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Wounded (1991)

Bob Gunton: Capt. Benjamin Maxwell

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• Chief Miles O'Brien , Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : [singing]  The minstrel boy to the war is gone / In the ranks of death you will find him. His father's sword he hath girded on / And his wild harp slung behind him. Land of song, said the warrior bard / Tho' all the world betrays thee. One sword at least thy rights shall guard /

  [only O'Brien finishes song] 

  Chief Miles O'Brien , Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : One faithful harp shall praise thee.

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : I'm not going to win this one, am I Miles?

  Chief Miles O'Brien : No, sir.

• Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : What the hell has happened to this war?

  Chief Miles O'Brien : Sir... There is - no - war. The war is over!

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : You're wrong. The Cardassians live to make war.

  Chief Miles O'Brien : That's what everybody thinks about the enemy. That's probably what they think about *us*.

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : We're not the same at all. We do not *start* wars. We do not make surprise attacks on manned outposts. We do not butcher women and children in their homes! Children... who never had the chance to grow up.

• 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.

• Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : O'Brien has the ability to size up a situation instantly, and come up with options to fit all contingencies. Remarkable!

  Chief Miles O'Brien : Well, if that's true, I learned it from you, sir.

  Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : [laughs]  But you got that silver tongue by kissing the stone, right?

• Chief Miles O'Brien : [singing]  The minstrel boy to the war has gone / In the ranks of death you will find him.

  Chief Miles O'Brien , Capt. Benjamin Maxwell : [joint]  His father's sword he hath girded on / And his wild harp slung behind him. "Land of song", said the warrior bard / "Tho' all the world betrays thee. One sword at least thy rights shall guard...

  Chief Miles O'Brien : ...One faithful harp shall praise thee."