For many years now I’ve had in my memory this scene from star trek tng where, for whatever reason, a group of British officers and Irish officers led by O’Brien start getting nationalistic and sing their respective national songs at each other. I remember the British were singing “Rule Britannia” but I don’t recall the Irish song.
Writing this out it sounds bizarre and I’d almost think I dreamt it up but I couldn’t come up with these details. I might have seen it somewhere else but i distinctly recall O’Brien. Does this sound familiar to anyone else? If indeed this is real, what episode?
I feel like it’s a DS9 episode but I can’t recall.
Is this your
cardepisode?Not that I recall.
The one where Picard is replaced with an alien he starts singing Heart of Oak “Come cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer…”
The one with the Renegade captain has O’Brien singing The Minstrel-Boy “The Minstrel-boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you will find him…”
I believe you’re thinking of Casablanca.
Could you be thinking of The Wounded, in which O’Brien sings an Irish rebel song with Captain Maxwell?
Sharing this scene from Allegiance because nobody’s posted it yet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Vadzjac6g
Maybe you’re remembering this clip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiJXfQ1z9Y&t=154
It’s not TNG it’s DS9 and technically it’s from the original series but O’Brien is there and there are nationalistic tensions occuring.
“British” people are far more likely to sing their national songs (“Land of my Fathers” for Wales, for example) than that dodgy imperial song. ( Look at the words. They’re really bad, even for an empire. )
