"Now We Have A Common Enemy" He Says
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I Wish To Be Candid With You Ensign
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When Humans Were Not Yet Standing Erect
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"Now We Have A Common Enemy" He Says
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I’ve always loved this channel’s intro and outro!
Picard: "No, onscreen."
Aka "I'm going to rip this admiral apart without even raising my voice, and you're all going to watch."
Public put down. Nothing like it for cathartic retribution
That seems to be Picard's speciality, verbally taking apart his superior officers without raising his voice. He did it to Satie and earlier, the admiral who wanted to take Lal away from Data and he did it here......
The communication literally came in on a "secured channel", it had to have been against some Starfleet policy to take the call in front of the entire bridge staff, lol. I'm surprised the admiral didn't just hang up on Picard!
"Hold my wine, Number One. I'm about to dunk on this man in 4K"
@@TheColSamsonits the future so probably more like 64K
"If that's your call, I'll support it."
"I'm changing my mind."
"Now I'm ordering you to do it."
"Thank you for audibly stating that for the record. See you in court, sir."
@@benjaminoechsli1941 Exactly. What a fool. I suspect this "admiral" won't be one for long, nor a captain.
@@PhillipLandmeier nah, Admirals take care of their own. If anything he'll be quietly assigned a desk job elsewhere before he retires with full pension and benefits. And then will go to work at the Earth- Cardassian mission or embassy as an advisor making a pretty penny off the Federation books.
Just another Starfleet Badmiral. Picard has guys like these for lunch.
Seriously, Starfleet Admiralty needs to do some serious house cleaning. These guys are always going bad. True in Kirk's day, true in TNG, and by Star Trek Picard they'd gotten even worse.
@@kettch777 Their pottymouths even moreso.
@@kettch777
At least this one was just an idiot and not outright evil.
it's a major plot hole in every star trek show. in an idealistic society such as the federation, no admiral was not a captain first, and only the best captains could become admirals.
It's a real world problem too. Often times the moment a General or Admiral gets that first star, the rot sets in. All power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Welp, there goes your career, admiral.
Yep, it's implied that he ended up at the same stockade as Ro Laren. I imagine the other inmates telling the admiral "You believed the Cardassians?! How naive can you get you moron! Even Ro Laren didn't do something as stupid as that!".
Throw him in prison for something he did not do deliberately?
I doubt Federation law would work that way.
But, I wonder what would they do with him?
Recommendations?
@@TheNoiseySpectator He ordered Ro Laren to tell the Bajoran extremists that he'd have them armed to the teeth which was in violation of Federation law due to the Prime Directive, that was his big crime.
@@girlgarde bingo, that alone is enough to Court Marshal the naive and complacent dopey Admiral. Claiming ignorance is not enough to get you off in this case.
Nah, this is starfleet, they like their admirals a little crazy.
I loved the Admiral's look there at the end. He suddenly realized that his beans were eaten by the Cardassians, and he didn't even know it... 😆
Lots of beans
Well played sir
Oh beans
Those were my beans Max! I was eating those beans!
Then the Admiral is toast. 🙂
I love that. "All hands lost?" "No sir." "Survivors?" "No sir, noone was on board."
So the answer to All hands lost would be yes, everyone on that ship died. No survivors because no crew.
@@barnabusdoyle4930can one really die if they have never lived?
Also: No one was on board
@barnabusdoyle4930 pretty sure answer would still be no because Noone was on board and the ship was being flown completely by remote
....
@@fperri302 No, the answer would be yes. If an empty ship is destroyed, would all the crew aboard the ship also have died? Yes. All crew aboard the ship was lost. The fact that there was no crew aboard the ship is actually irrelevant to the question.
Check and mate. Picard just schooled the admiral, both militarily and politically, all without firing a shot, AND while making him see the error of his ways. Don't try to outmaneuver Picard; it won't end well for you.
If you try to outmaneuver Picard, your shirt will be all over the place!
"...naive enough.."
That sounds like a shot to me.
The REAL Picard maneuver...
This will henceforth be known as, " The Picard Outmaneuver "
😂😂😂😂
You know, I just worked out why Picard wanted it on the main screen - the rest of the current shift would be witnesses and it would also be entered into the Bridge's procedural log
Precisely. Any screw ups could just wind up getting classified if it was just between a captain and an admiral.
EXACTLY. Wasn't just an opportunity for a public dressing down. This was AFTER Ro Laren had confided in him. Picard wasn't going to be caught in the same position.
@@szahmad2416 Also, Ro gets a front-row seat to the fruition of her clever plan.
@@argvminusone yeah...although I think that's just a side benefit.
Now I know you've too much time on your hands.🙂
That look Picard gives Riker after "He's ordering us to withdraw?" Awesome acting by Sir Patrick without saying a word.
Also I assume that this far into the series, the Picard Maneuver there was scripted.
I want to know what the shooting script said. Was this good writing, or were the words dropped on set due to the actors/director?
Edit: Found the script.
RIKER: He ordered us to withdraw?
Picard nods silently. Riker looks back to the viewscreen.
So the silence was in the script, but the actor/director dropped the nod.
"That fool is actually going through with it, Number One."
I love the gestures in place of words. This was done many time on TNG with great psychological effect. Actions do speak louder than words.
He says "yes, now watch this.... it's gonna be great"
All without a word... just a nod
How do you become a three pips admiral and not know that you need warp drive to reach another star system?
Probably just ASSumed..
Some people only see what they want to see.
when you were raised by your mama to be an enormous fool to one day give Picard something to play off of
He may not have known these bajorans had no warp capability. He sits in his office on earth. Being a bureaucrat.
He didn't know that Orta's ships didn't have warp capability due to lack of intelligence on his group. Orta isn't going to openly announce the weaknesses of his ships for all to hear just to provide some desk jockey like the Admiral here with accurate info to avoid possibly looking stupid one day.
“How many a$$holes do we have in this navy??”
“Well, sir, how many Admirals are there in Starfleet?”
"Yo!'
Subtract one. Janeway is pretty awesome.
@@oddish4352Ross was good
"I'm surrounded by a$$holes!" - Dark Helmet
@@chadbizeau5997 Yeah. Even if he did climb in bed with Section 31. Subtract two, then.
The shot of the Enterprise moving away whilst the Cardassian ships move in is truly majestic.
Yeah that was gorgeous.
like the equivilent of a sci fi chess game :3 XD Enterprise D moving while the 2 galors move up to the way of 1 out dated bajoran ship and destroy that while Picard out smarts that starfleet Admrial. Soo indeed in Star Trek terms that is in essance 2 words.
Check Mate Star Trek style.
Enterprise "D"... What a beautiful ship.
4:19 The face of a man who has very quickly come to the full realization that his career is over, and he'll be lucky to stay out of prison.
I see an actor who can convincingly deliver a major monologue while staring at a prop showing nothing whatsoever. Wow.
Star Trek brought elevated theatre to science fiction
We all have monologues this good in the shower after the fact
His script was probably on the screen 😂
It's not easy! Sir Ian McKellan famously broke down during filming Lord of the Rings because he hated acting in front of a green screen without interacting with actors on stage.
Interesting how quickly he hailed.
Cliff Notes version: "Admiral, you are a giant tool. Picard.......OUT" {mic drop}
Starfleet Admirals sure do have a habit of retiring suddenly and under a cloud.
"Subspace Signal comming in from Starfleet Captain, Admiral Kennelly."
"...On Screen...."
"It is on a secured Channel Sir. In your ready room?"
"...No. Here. On Screen"
Oh Boy he is gone get it and everyone will see it :)
Kitty Foreman watched this and started chanting "You're gonna get it!" at that part.
The only reason Picard didn't stand up to ream him out was Picard's raging erection.
No wonder Kirk wanted to remain a captain!
the amount of work admirals do leads them to slowly become blind to the galaxy.
To quote mordin "to focused on big picture, big picture made up of little pictures, to many variables."
I think it's that Kirk eventually became fed up and wanted to go back to being a captain. He was a young career-minded officer, fast tracked until he became the youngest starship captain in Starfleet. When he accepted promotion to flag rank after his Five Year Mission was completed, and especially with the Enterprise temporarily out of service for her refit, he probably accepted the promotion without giving it a second thought.
Indeed Picard and Kirk have the smarts to remain in the starship game of Chess since theyre the true kings I mean common being captian of a starship is like being kings in a sci fi game of chess that even Kirk himself would know that all too well in the TOS era.
Kirk was promoted to admiral, didn't enjoy it, went off half-cocked for the umpteenth time, got demoted back to captain...and didn't mind in the slightest.
There was a satirical book in the sixties: The Peter Principle, by Dr. Lawrence A. Peter. "Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence." For every job in the universe, there is someone, somewhere who can't do it. Given sufficient time and promotions, that person will eventually get that job, and once they do, they're stuck. They can't do it well enough to get promoted out of it nor can they get a transfer for a better situation. It's no accident that the dunsels tend to be ranking, since they're had more promotions.
@@KenshiImmortalWolf that is kind of what Sisko alludes to later on when it comes to the Maquis when he mentions that it's "easy to be a saint in paradise".
Riker: He's ordered us to withdraw?
Picard: Ah, I see you've read the script!
Just realised Picard gave Kenneally an out and he didn't take it.
If K is stupid enough to believe and trust the Cardassians, he's gonna be too stupid to see, or to accept, Picard's out.
1. You'd think by now Admirals would know better than to go up against Picard.
2. So he got removed and replaced with Not-Care Nechayev. 😖
3. And this was the last time we saw Cardassians use pink torpedoes.
Hated Nedheyev but the actress played the role of Karen so well.
To be fair, Nechayev saw a wasted opening to destroy or at least hurt the Borg Collective and protect the Federation from harm hence why she yelled at Picard and was hard on him. She was a "look at the big picture to protect the Federation" type of officer and not a "remembering to be Human even if it handicaps you" type of officer.
I wasn't fond of her either to be honest but I understand now why she behaved the way she does, to protect the Federation plus she's actually right sometimes.
Nechayev was the only Star Fleet Admiral who came up against Picard and didn't leave tied up with a neat little bow. She deserves respect for that.
@@danieldickson8591 That's because she didn't do anything illegal and was careful as to what she attacked Picard on.
@@girlgarde Yeah, say what you want about Nechayev, but she was a fairly competent and, surprisingly for a Starfleet admiral, possessed a good bit of integrity.
If only we had brilliant people like Picard in our government.
The Picard like, thanks, but no thanks. I don’t want to deal with that mess. I’ll stick to be the starship captain.
You know that an admiral is bad when Picard calls them "sir"...
you know that an admiral is bad when that admiral appears on screen
That is properly spelled "cur" and the c is pronounced like an s in this case....
Huh... even though Picard was right here, it's also this moment that probably lead to the more involved peace treaty negotiations where Cardassia and the Federation had to give up various colonies, leading to the creation of the Demilitarized Zone, and the Maquis. This one moment sparked Wesley to ascend when he did, lead to the need for Sisko to take over DS9, the discovery of the Wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant and the Dominion, and therefore war, and lead to Voyager going to the Badlands and ending up in the Delta Quadrant. This is like, the second most important moment of this era.
The *second* ? Wow, I'm going to screenshot this. What was the First?
... and what does Wesley have to do with this?
@@solsticeprojekt1937 The First Was Wolf 359, a battle so destructive to Starfleet, that they had to reassess their position in the galaxy, and likely fast-tracked peace talks with the Cardassians now that they weren't an unstoppable force of good.
@@solsticeprojekt1937 Wesley became a Traveller in the midst of disputes within the demilitarized zone between disenfranchised colonists/proto- maquis and Cardassian forces.
@@bustedsim Thank you, for both responses!
I'd love to see Ro Laren reappears in a future DS9 centric reboot or sequel series. As seen in her TNG appearances, Ro is a survivor. I never believed she's perished alongside the rest of the Maquis when the Dominion War is over. In my head canon she's roaming somewhere in the galaxy until the right opportunity requires her to show up...
In my head she’s a Starfleet Captain on Lower Decks of a Nebula Class ship, and Worf’s secret lover..
Well... you did get your wish
@@CtaEverett23 Sadly not for long though
@@LGranthamsHeir in the alternate timeline. the ro we know and love is still out there somewhere, waiting to resolve her conflict with the real picard.
@@romancernjak Right on! Based on what Terry Matalas said after "Picard" finale, we have not seen the last of Ro Laren yet. Of course, it also depends on Michelle Forbes.
The chimps were looking for a chump and they found him, Admiral.
THAT WAS EXCELLENT!
In the Star Trek universe, we repeatedly see that everyone in Star Fleet above the rank of captain is either corrupt or suffering from personality problems.
Or just so far out of touch they boarder on incompetent.
"I'm going you a direct order to withdraw."
...Well that's not happening...
Picard: Balls of TriLithium
More like duranium.
@@aggressiveattitudeera887 Unless he's implying that Picards Balls cause Supernovas.
@@aggressiveattitudeera887 even better
No, more like Carbolithite-Tritanium.
They take supernovas and keep on ticking.
That the admiral didnt know the Bajoran ships weren't even warp-capable is a gross dereliction of duty.
On his part, his intelligence liaison's, or Starfleets above board intelligence arm in general?
2:10 - 2:30 How many of you wish either Gul Dukat or a certain Cardassian tailor had been in command of these Galor-class ships?
At this point in time (several years before DS9), I think Dukat would have been busy working Barjorian slave labors to death. But perhaps Garak was still a member of the Obsidian order and might have been aboard one of those Cardassian cruisers.
@@jacksonheathen2092 No, the Obsidian Order wasn't allowed to have ships. He likely would've been on Cardassia Prime, interrogating some poor Cardassian to death.
@@3Rayfire Of course. The Obsidian order wasn't allowed to have military ships. But still, they likely had an "observer" from the order onboard (especially in missions along the border). But that's just my opinion.
We just need to wait until George Lucas buys Star Trek and then he can do some special editions and edit them right in - no one could hate that, right?
@@jacksonheathen2092 that makes sense. I feel like Cardassian ships would have "political officers" posted on them, like the way that the Soviet Navy did.
One of the reason why I'm beginning to like Orville even more than start trek - they depict a moderately competent top brass, while still having a good storyline
And then Admiral Perry happened and it turned out that yes, the Planetary Union can have Starfleet Admirals too.
@@hagamapama which one was Perry? Was that Ted Danson's character?
@@OptimusWombat He's the one who tried to use the Krill and Moclans to wipe out the Kaylon. She gave Isaac and Charlie's design to the Krills so that it would be used and the Kaylon destroyed.
@@hagamapama OK, thanks. It's slowly coming back to me now. My memory isn't what it used to be, lol.
Unfortunately, it's also The Orville, and will never be Star Trek on its best day.
And that's due to its main character. Who literally photocopied TNG and DS9 Scripts and removed the parts he couldn't understand. I.E. everything actually intelligent and thought-provoking.
I love the idealism of the virtuous captain exposing the corrupt Star Fleet admiral, with expected consequences. On "Picard," Jean-Luc said it was no longer Star Fleet. A metaphor for so much of our society giving way to brutal greed. In my opinion. I wouldn't be a fan of Trek without those caveats on my own views.
Those views seem rather familiar today, don't they?
2:50 you can see the reflection of the boom on the lower right screen on Ro Larens console.
same reflections are on Data's side
Hawkeye here!
"Our mission has in fact BEAN to expose Orta."
WELL *said* Cap.
Everyone gets promoted to their level of incompetence
God. I loved this show. They don’t make Trek like this anymore.
2:09 damn look how good the Enterprise looks in that shot.
Perhaps the 'Admiral' should have a change of rank ... to 'Despicaral'.
When I had the ‘Rona and couldn’t sleep these videos helped maintain my sanity as that b.s. was fought off. Don’t ever stop! Now, who’d like some beans?
glad i could help, hope you're well 🖖🏻
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With two hours to go, I will stir in some chopped celery. Then just before serving, I will make a BIG batch of cornbread.
When all is ready, we will all sit down to a yummy supper of lima bean soup (flavored with ham hocs) and buttered corn bread, southern style!
Beans and cornbread. Yum! 😋
I need to rewatch this series. I vaguely remember watching this as a little kid but didn't understand the plot.
Gee ST seems to make most of their admirals except maybe a select few quite corrupt.
This is what got me into TNG
Ah, the misguided, admiral criminal trope Star Trek loves so much! Even in the enlightened, Utopian 24th century, power corrupts! 😈
And the Peter principle remains in full effect.
Picard casually obliterating another admiral.
Long live Bajor
Funny that Picard mentioned that outdated Bajoran ship was being remotely controlled from the ground? unless whoever is controlling that outdated old RC old bajoran ship must have aquired the skills to controll it
This clip just appeared on my feed right after I finished DS9 and while I liked that show a lot this is the perfect scene to exemplify the difference between DS9 and TNG and why I consider the latter something unique and DS9 just a good space opera series.
It exemplifies why I can't take DS9 very seriously.
Yep, and kinda more like 'soap opera' to be precise, although there'll always be folks who actually _prefer_ that sorta thing!
@@klowen7778Are you guys serious? This episode not only sets up DS9, but this sort of geopolitical manuevering and world building is DS9's bread and butter. This is an exception for TNG, rather than the rule.
The big picture only affects the little people.
I now know why Picard was never promoted to admiral (at least during the 7 seasons of STNG): He wasn't corrupt enough or incompetent enough
I wonder if dolts like him ever realize they all but confirm suspicions around them when they act like that before it's too late for themselves? Naivete, & ambitious are as dangerous a combo as alcohol, & gambling.
Never, ever play chess against Captain Picard. You will ALWAYS lose.
"...and just a reminder, admiral, ALL Starfleet communications, both secured and unsecured, are recorded."
Star fleet has a habit of promoting people with the cognitive abilities of a toddler to top brass. What a joke that guy was.
Ah, there we go :)
Ensign Ro Laren, who here was but an ensign, later changed her name and was assigned to the colonial fleet, where she rose in prominence and rank to finally one day become Admiral, and the commanding officer of a ship of her own, though she had by then risen to the rank of Admiral, she was responsible for multiple ships, along with her flag ship, the (USS) Pegasus. BS-62. Admiral Helena Cain, CO of the Battlestar Pegasus. (Yes that was all just a joke, or "homage" to the actress who played both roles in respective franshieses)
And she performed brilliantly in both roles. As flawed as Admiral Cain was, it took an actor of Forbes' ability to bring those flaws out seamlessly.
But that was a long time ago... in a galaxy far, far away. 😁
At least this guy was just easier to fool and not straight up corrupt. Plus the Cardassians are deceitful, not just the Romulans. Not everyone can see through either races' lies.
The admiral was also corrupt, because he was willing to abet the murder of civilians. A wanted terrorist leader is one thing, but collective punishment like that is quite shocking.
after all, I believe this is the time when the Obsidian Order was at its peak and this may well have been something put together by Tain and Garak before the latter was banished.
@@hagamapama I have to agree, that makes a lot of sense
@@teleportedbreadfor3days For that matter we don't really know exactly whooooooooooo this "cardassian liason" really is. It might have even been Garak. Althoughh the operative was clumsy enough that I doubt it. Getting Kennelly sick with the virus wound up being a mistake and Garak was a bit too professional for that.
@@hagamapama lol
As a kid I loved Starfleet and the Federation.
As an adult I find Starfleet full of idiots and bureaucrats and the Federation an organisation with more wrinkles than a Zakdorn face.
You can see why section 31 has it's place.
@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants I agree in principle there are needs for organisations who will do the dirty work others won't do in order to preserve our way of life but when those same orginisations undermine the integrity of that way of life it becomes much more complicated. Some would rather die than give up those beliefs, others would prefer 'freedom' even if it costs their soul. The problem is these organisations decide for the masses when not everyone would agree with them and who are they to decide what happens?
@@develynseether4426 And yet, overall the Federation is a good place to live, and while there are certainly bad people in it, there's a lot of good people in it. And the vast majority still follows its founding ideals by 2500.
Section 31 won the Dominion War. I don't love them but they don't exist to be loved. They exist to do their duty and let the rest of us abide in the illusion that the universe is peaceful, because if it chooses not to be, Section 31 is there.
@@develynseether4426
So...If the Cardassians were responsible for the attack on Solarion 4, that makes their actions a war crime(false flag operation), at least by real-life modern standards, also meaning that the Cardassians intentionally jeopardized the peace just to get at the Maquis.
Anyone with brains and a sense of justice in this universe would see this situation and mobilize a full armada to push into cardassian territory, overthrow the government and install a new one, and guarantee the perpetrators behind this were publicly executed, at MINIMUM.
I like the promise of Star Trek, but sometimes the lack of consequences and the unfortunate portrayal of the Federation as people who love peace TOO MUCH makes everything look grossly incompetent.
I like the story, the character and plot development, the plot twist, the way Picard and Ro turn it around, but in season 5, the writers were trying to set up the Cardassians as the next Big Bad guy of the series throughout it, and yet fail to ask the obvious and needed question: So how would the Federation respond?
The audience needs to see their protagonists respond to injury/attack/problems in realistic ways, even if it's not with the response we have in mind. Consequences and Responses, THAT is what elevates story-telling.
More or less. A bit like the major powers during the lead-up to WWII, so afraid of war they would not strike when the threat was small and wound up with a bigger problem.
Brinkmanship is a dangerous game.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely... Humanity [might] be screwed.
For a utopian society, the Federation sure does have a lot of incompetent admirals...
Your right, it sometimes makes me wonder is being incompetent is 1 of the requirements for being A admiral in Starfleet that isn't 1 of the main characters
I aspire to one day achieve the sass level of Picard’s two “No sir!”s
It takes a lot of courage to speak up like that to a supervisor and a lot of smarts to be right about it. And a lot of wisdom to know it was worth it.
That was powerful
Man that guy has a lots of beans on his collar
The goodness of the high command of starfleet😈
"then who's responsible?"
"I suspect Glinn Chusee Mol Et came up with this laughably implausible fairy tale."
4:16 - I too identify as a Bah-Jah-Rahn xD
Picard at his absolute best!
and that ladies and gentlemen is how you dunk on an Admiral
Unfortunately relevant in 2023/24.
It was then. It will be in 2050. It still will be in the year the episode was set.
Star trek admirals try not to make a bad decision challenge: impossible
Is no one going to point out that the outpost was probably hit by the Cardassians?
Picard did, in this very clip. or do
you mean the one on the planet that they visited?
Ensign Ro is fine 🌺
*2:46* I love that. “No. Here. On screen.”
That look at the end where he knew the jig was up
"We've had a command deck drop. Picard crushed it so hard he literally dropped the entire deck. There were no survivors..."
That’s “Now, we have a common enemy…”
Picard: In my century, we don't succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility... apart from those we place in the highest positions of trust and responsibility that is.
What Cardassian treaty? All there is right now, is an armistice, and a very uneasy peace!
This episode applies to what we see today. Star Trek always had the ability to place real world issues into their episodes.
Cardassians played that admiral like a fiddle.
He calls a Starfleet Admiral naive, in front of an audience. The inertial dampers were working overtime at that moment to compensate for his Jupiter sized clankers.
Picard eats admirals for breakfast 😋
It will be in my report to Star Fleet.
Patrick Stewart is an AWESOME actor, but, honestly, wouldn't it have been more believeable for an admiral to be the same age or older than Captain Picard?
With this scene I am getting a vibe that either Capt. Picard was 'left back' from advancing in Starfleet or the Admiral is a super-genius who aced all of his tests and outmaneuvered every combatant in all quadrants of the galaxy.
The vibe I get is the Admiral promoted his way through connections and not expertise.
He may not have advanced through fleet, starship, service, could've been a planet-bound or space station facility commander his entire life, then rose up to the admiralty level. Picard was a pure bred starship captain essentially his whole life, aside from some junior officer positions early on. Picard didn't want to trade all that in to sit at a desk. At least, not until much later in his life.
Almost everyone in Starfleet Command is a nut.
Another RUclipsr stated something along the line of: Apparently, once you get promoted above Captain, Starfleet puts you in a neural neutralizer until you can't put your pants on correctly and/or they zap you with a phaser set to "asshole."
Really can't argue with that given the parade of high-ranking morons Star Trek has presented us from TOS on forward.
More likely they have to tow the line with the Federation Council who are likely one step away from disbanding Starfleet for any reason since even they see their scientific exploration arm is too militaristic for them. They'd rather underarmed or unarmed science vessels than ships like the Enterprise (I suspect even an Oberth is too heavily armed for them).
aaaand that is why Picard was Fleet Captain .
And that folks is the problem with bureaucracies, incompetent manipulatable supportive of evil downtrodden good🙄
Sometimes A Great Notion
Bajoran nose crinkle is different here than in DS9.
Picard had some brass to throw salt into a superior officer's face LOL
Our common enemy is Wesley Crusher. 🖖
"Why would Cardassians try and get their enemies, the Federation, to take care of their other enemies, the Bajoran resistance? Flummoxes me, Picard! I have no idea why they'd try to stage such an event!"
As Cracked said, the majority of Starfleet high command are terrible.
good thing the cardassians gave them an hour, and didn't demand their immediate withdrawal.