Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Wounded (1991)

Marc Alaimo: Gul Macet

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• [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.

• 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.