Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Wounded

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After a Cardassian warship fires on the Enterprise TM, its captain, Gul Macet (Marc Alaimo), advises Picard (Patrick Stewart) he is acting in retaliation against a Federation starship which has decimated an unarmed Cardassian space station. Picard finds this peculiar, since a recent peace treaty between their two people has been enacted. Consulting with Starfleet Command to confirm this alleged assault, Picard finds that the U.S.S. Phoenix, captained by Benjamin Maxwell (Bob Gunton), has in fact destroyed the station. Despite objections from crew members who still mistrust their former enemy, Picard invites a small Cardassian delegation aboard as a gesture of goodwill and to aid in the pursuit of the renegade Phoenix. After learning that Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney) had once served under Captain Maxwell, Picard confers with him to determine Maxwell's motives. Though O'Brien believes Maxwell would not have attacked unless provoked, he mentions that Maxwell's family had been slaughtered at the hands of Cardassians some years before. Now Picard must act swiftly to track the Phoenix down and stop Maxwell in his apparent vendetta, or a deadly war is sure to follow.