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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 hour ago

Set aside the actual statistics that say this isn’t accurate, O’Brien was a named character. Most who die didn’t have a name.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder what happened to the guys who were originally standing in the lineup?

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

The bouncer wouldn’t let them in the bar. With the Defiant crew, they were at capacity.

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If he died, his suffering would have ended.

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I like to think he never dies, he's just kept alive by a confluence of sci-fi anomalies and technobabble (some of it his own making) alternating between suffering/torment and respite where he gets to solve interesting engineering problems. In the end, he solves all remaining engineering problems, which ends the universe and replaces it with something new, different and even stranger, and he ends up being God for that new iteration.

He's Star Trek's Kenny

I love that xD

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Sometimes I think all of DS9 is a holodeck program that Next Generation-era O'Brien puts a buffer clone of himself through occasionally, in a fit of self-loathing.

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 14 points 12 hours ago

It's the real reason O'Brien got a statue.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

O'Brien: the Engineer Without Fear.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Engineering fears O'Brien.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

Fear engineered O'Brien.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

That was a luck buffer overrun. It was so much bad luck it flipped over to positive.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

He didn't even die and come back to life after killing his own father...

Underwhelming.