#o’brien

[trektown]

Sometimes the crime of being Miles O’Brien is unforgivable

#someone once referred to him as the bearer of the curse #star trek #trekposting #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #ds9 #miles o'brien #O’Brien #chief obrien

[startrek-by-secret]

#decided it’s a bit more logical to post it as a stand-alone #keiko o'brien #ds9 keiko #O’Brien #miles o'brien #star trek #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek fandom #deep space 9 #my artwrok #my art #ds9 fanart #star trek fanart

[absolutly-not-an-alien]

Love the idea that Gabriel had to physically talk on the phone with Dave

Also the gag of the other alternates getting on his nerves

#tmc #the mandela catalog #the mandela catalogue #mandela catalogue #mandela catalog #the mandela catalog gabriel #tmc gabriel #gabriel tmc #tmc fanart #tmc memes #gabriel fanart #tmc O’Brien #O’Brien #Dave tmc #my art

[preganglionicfiber]

Shout out to Miles Obrien for experiencing unspeskable horrors and then going and playing darts

#star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #quark #ben sisko #elim garak #julain bashir #O’Brien

[writergeekrhw]

O’BRIEN

Found this on the interwebs.

Hey, Paramount, I’m tech avail.

#tv writing #ds9 #star trek ds9 #star trek #deep space nine #star trek deep space nine #deep space 9 #O’Brien

[liquidatorbruntfca]

i’m currently rewatching TNG, and i completely forgot that in s2 e7 “Unnatural Selection”, picard takes over the transport controls from o’brien to beam pulaski back from darwin station, as to spare miles if anything were to go wrong.

if only picard knew the horrors miles would face on ds9 :)

#killing the CMO of the enterprise in a transporter accident would be virtually nothing #my boy spent 20 fake years in a made up prison is his brain #miles o’brien #o’brien #picard #captain picard #pulaski #kate pulaski #tng #star trek #star trek tng #attention bajoran workers

[butterfingersgutterball]

#star trek poll #poll #deep space nine #ds9 #Star Trek #trek #fandom polls #fandom #Sisko #Kira #Jadzia #quark #Odo #O’Brien #Bashir #Garak #Jake #keiko #kasidy yates #vic fontaine #Ziyal

[stopthesun]

no matter how hard you may try, there’s always an irish man 10 steps ahead of you

#1984 spoilers #implied but still #fan art #1984 george orwell #winston smith #julia #o’brien

[draghanite]

The internet world stopped the day these Dylan O’Brien images from this Interview Magazine/Aidan Cullen photoshoot were released to the public 🫣🫣🫣

#dylan o’brien #dylan obrien #dobedit #dob #photoshoot #interview magazine #aidan cullen #stiles stilinski #stiles #dylan #obrien #O’Brien #dylanobrienedit #dylanobrien

[kingoftheu]

So O’Brien was definitely hell on Cadets at the Academy right? Like he made it his life goal to remind them that being an Officer did not make you a god. Never unfair but by the stars every Cadet dreaded Engineering 101, which he teaches specifically so he gets a chance to put the fear of the Prophets into Security, Command, and Science. Every Ensign has his lessons branded into their minds by the time they graduate.

On the flip side, the minute an NCO, be they a Warrant Officer, Petty Officer, or a newly enlisted soul walks through the doors he is the sweetest most supportive man who ever lived. Coffee, a sympathetic ear, and advice. The entire enlisted ranks love “Mister Miles” and they fact that he terrifies the officer corps makes them love him even more.

In conclusion the LaForge kids and the Lower Decks ensigns live in perpetual fear of Miles O’Brien but the Prodigy kids are gonna love him.

#Star Trek #miles o'brien #star trek ds9 #deep space nine #deep space 9 #starfleet #starfleet academy #O’Brien #ds9 posting #st ds9 #cadets #ensigns #officers #enlistment #the prophets #prophets #picard #picard season three #sidney laforge #geordi laforge #brad boimler #Rutherford #ensign tendi #ensign rutherford #star trek lower decks #lower decks #star trek prodigy

[ruburnz]

#1984 #nineteen eighty four #george orwell #winston smith #o’brien #i miss these guys. so much

[azazelsazaleas]

I finished watching through DS9 a few weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to do a rundown of my thoughts on it. Here goes:

- Oh my god that was fantastic. I really wish it’s given it a fair shake back when it was on the air; I was a dumb teenager who resented it for not being TNG and was going through a weird self-loathing phase where I didn’t want to admit to myself that I was the massive nerd that I am. This seriously lived up to the hype. I may have to do a TNG rewatch because this might just have upstaged it as my favorite 90s Trek.

- Andrew Robinson should’ve been made a full cast member. Ditto Max Grodenchik and Aaron Eisenberg.

- Damar’s transmission at the end of The Changing Face of Evil lives rent-free in my head. I cheered out loud at that.

- One thing the show did fantastically that a lot of other SF/fantasy properties don’t quite get right is that it lands a pitch-perfect balance of “these characters are major, important figures in the larger multinational conflict” and “this conflict is absolutely massive and not everything revolves around the same small group of people.” The fact that Sisko, Worf, Kira, Odo, et al are so important is entirely plausible and it never feels like the writers are trying to gratuitously bring everything back to them.

- That said, I kind of love that Admiral Ross’s leadership approach during the Dominion War eventually consists of doing whatever the hell Sisko tells him to do.

- God, the acting was incredible. Andrew Robinson, Armin Shimerman, Nana Visitor, Marc Alaimo, and Louise Fletcher were real standouts, but everyone was just so damned good.

- Actually, I really need to give special mention to Shimerman. The man went above and beyond to make Quark be something more than a joke character, despite how obvious it was that basically the entire production team wanted him to just be cartoonish comic relief. He worked harder to flesh out his character and show his race as a race of *people* (not just caricatures) than just about any actor playing an alien on Star Trek before him except for maybe Nimoy. Give the man a goddamn Emmy. Don’t believe me? Go rewatch the iconic root beer scene from The Way of the Warrior.

That said: I do have a few criticisms:

- Pretty much all of the (canon) romantic subplots were just…yikes. The only major exception I can think of Sisko/Yates, where they actually seemed to have a healthy dynamic, fall legitimately in love with each other, and generally treat each other like adults in a serious relationship, not bickering teenagers.

- Seriously, Worf/Jadzia got so hard to watch and then the fallout with Ezri was just ugggghhhhhhhhh stop please for the love of god

- Why did the writers need to try to romantically pair off all the female characters? Just, why?

- Kira had more sexual tension with that Romulan lady in half an episode than she did with any of her bucket-of-paint boyfriends over the course of seven years.

- I totally get the behind-the-seasons reasons why things panned out the way they did, but (hot take) I think Dax’s whole arc would’ve worked better if they had killed Jadzia off after the first season or two and brought in Ezri earlier. Jadzia was fun, but she was just too perfect to get many interesting stories and her relationship with Worf felt too much like manufactured drama. Having a trill who didn’t want to be joined, agreed to in a life or death emergency situation, and now has to reckon not only with taking on this symbiotic relationship with no preparation whatsoever but also succeeding this beloved person in the eyes of her loved ones is such a better setup for a character and it’s a pity we didn’t get to see that play out properly.

- Sisko deserved a better conclusion to his story. Give the man his damned house on Bajor and let him raise his kid with Kasidy. He’s more than earned it.

- Next time I rewatch the series, I’m skipping the mirror universe episodes and the ones with the genetically enhanced walking-90s-neurodivergent-stereotypes.

Other random thoughts:

- Dukat’s storyline should’ve ended with him getting killed at the end of Waltz. Either by Sisko, or by deluding himself so thoroughly that he does something suicidal. The pah-wraiths subplot felt like a lazy afterthought (except for the episode where he pretends to be Bajoran and starts fucking Kai Winn) and as much as I liked watching Marc Alaimo act, his story arc was basically over at the end of Sacrifice of Angels….which, incidentally is when Damar actually starts to get interesting.

- I loved the O’Brien must suffer episodes but I thought Hard Time was kind of overrated. Mostly for the plot line with the cellmate; I think I’m a little burned out on seeing stories that have a moral of “deep inside us is a line between humanity and savagery and when pushed to the limit, even the best of us would turn to murder.” It’s been done to death, and it’s really not truthful, at least for many people.

- I think I may have a little bit of a crush on Major Kira. It would never work out if I met someone like that in real life, though. I’m a laid-back, atheist, creative type; she’s a deeply devout former insurgent. Given certain real-life crushes I’ve had recently; maybe I’m just into strong women with big, expressive eyes who wear their hearts on their sleeve and have a spine made of fuckin’ steel. I have no idea what this says about me.

- MORN

- Favorite Episodes: In the Pale Moonlight, The Visitor, Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast, In Purgatory’s Shadow/By Inferno’s Light, In the Cards, Duet, The Wire, Civil Defense, The Magnificent Ferengi, basically the entire Dominion War arc.

#Star Trek #star trek deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #ds9 #deep space 9 #deep space nine #Sisko #Kira #Bashir #Odo #O’Brien #Jake Sisko #Dax #Jadzia #Ezri #quark #rom #nog #Garak #Dukat #damar #Kai Winn #it was all so fucking good #what you leave behind #I’m going to miss that damned space station #cue solemn French horn music #morn

[dylanstileso]

#dylanobrien #dylan o'brian imagine #dylan o'brien gif #DOB #dylan obrien #dylan o #dylan o’brien gif #dylan obrien gifs #obrien #obriengifs #dylan o’brien #o’brien

[writergeekrhw]

REFLECTIONS ON TWITTER

Some things I miss about Twitter are the group celebrations of things like Warnock winning, or being able to trumpet the UCLA Bruins winning their 120th NCAA championship, or mocking Mitch McConnell for getting a tiny bit of comeuppance. Those don’t really feel appropriate here.

But there’s no way I’m providing content for a company that welcomes back actual fucking Nazis and traitors with open arms. So I guess it’s a reasonable trade off.

Or to put it another way…

#tvwriting #tv writing #star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #union man #Twitter #You don’t need the boss #The boss needs you #Twitter strike #O’Brien #Rom

[liquidatorbruntfca]

i feel like jumja sticks taste like lucas muecas tamarind candy

#right???? #right??????? #someone validate meeee validate my poinnttt #i make a good poiiiint #and now i just rly want lucas candy :( #i feel like jumja sticks are tamarind-y yknow #sweet and sour and rich and earthy #spicy #o’brien #keiko #jumja stick #ds9 #deep space nine #star trek #star trek ds9 #star trek: deep space nine

[butterfingersgutterball]

#star trek #star trek deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #star trek poll #polls #fandom polls #deep space nine #ds9 #trek #Sisko #Kira #Jadzia #Bashir #O’Brien #Jake #quark #Odo #Garak #vic fontaine #Keiko #nog #Rom #Leeta #Ziyal