#star trek o'brien

[meme-space-nine]

Watch DS9 everyone, the space dad is calling

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get that girl her Odo fries !!

[satans-trek]

By popular demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

[victusinveritas]

[orangexmachina]

[sirellas]

I'm sure Quique would like that. DS9 | 5.02

[lobotr-on]

how many trials and tribble-ations redraws must i do till i am finally free

[startrekplotnthemes]

Season 4 Episode 12 The Wounded

Picard and the Enterprise are seeking to meet up with the Cardassian when they are fired upon by the very group they were supposed to have an alliance with. It is revealed that another ship of the Federation attacked a science station. Picard responds immediately, taking the Cardassians aboard the Enterprise after getting in contact with command and getting orders to contact the offending vessel that threatens the peace between the Federation and Cardassians.

They hail The Phoenix attempting to reach it's captain Benjamin Maxwell, yet he ignores all hailing attempts. Gul Macet, the Cardassian leader demands Maxwell's location and sends more ships at Maxwell's ship but after a short engagement more Cardassians are killed. Maxwell beams aboard the Enterprise vehemently insisting that the Cardassians are up to shaft business. Picard reins him in, demanding him to take The Phoenix in and resign his position. He foolishly let's Maxwell back onto his own ship where he immediately goes after a Cardassian freighter and the Enterprise and Phoenix are caught in a stalemate.

In the B plot of the episode Chief O'Brien has been interacting with the Cardassians aboard the Enterprise, confronting his own prejudices from being at war with them aboard Maxwell's old vessel. He breaks out of his unacknowledged cycle of biases to realize his own guilt and feelings hold his opinion of the Cardassians stagnant and unable to change. It is why he beams aboard The Phoenix in order to confront Maxwell. He sings an old song reminiscing with Maxwell and having him confront his own pain and reasons for still hating the Cardassians. He convinced him to return to the Enterprise. Rounding out the episode Picard confronts Macet revealing he knew Maxwell was right about his suspicions of subterfuge, but that he wanted to avoid a war. He tells them the Federation will be keeping a close eye on them going forward.

This episode introduces O'Brien as a more prominent cast member before, serving as the protagonist alongside Picard as well as introducing the Cardassians all in an interesting way. Focusing on cycles of vengeance and finding ways going forward. I almost feel that the message of wanton violence and moving forward is somewhat undercut by the reveal that the Cardassians were guilty of subterfuge as Maxwell suggested. It undercuts messages of peace positioning them as exactly the type of people that Maxwell and O'Brien thought of them as. It is much more ambiguous and poignant if Maxwell has been in the wrong, focusing on his past trauma to essentially attack and kill innocent people, exposing flaws in some of the Federation's trained Captains.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - S3E3 The House of Quark

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[benedictusantonius]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s01e13 "Battle Lines"

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i love tossing the muppets at various star trek crews, it's so fun

[mostly-natm]

Women!

[usslakevee]

I continue to love how easily people are believed in Star Trek. If your crewmate and friend says they believe something is happening to them, you fucking believe them.

You give Keiko video evidence of her husband's death, and she says this is faked my husband never drinks coffee in the afternoon. You ask a few questions, and then you hop in a runabout to go investigate.

Beverly Crusher tells you her friend has disappeared, but there's no record that he ever existed. Ask questions. Believe her. Investigate that shit.

It makes a lot of sense, when they regularly wind up in bizarre and dangerous situations. You absolutely should operate on the assumption that whatever someone is experiencing is real until proven otherwise. But also, I can't think of any other show where Keiko would be believed when she says that it can't be Miles in the video.

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thinking about ‘big shoes’ again