TNG O'Brien versus DS9 O'Brien
As an old, grizzled sysadmin who still deals with physical infrastructure and legacy systems, I can totally relate to this. I also like to think that all of O'Brien's hacks that save the day in DS9 were made possible by Ro Laren showing him the way.
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Rom learned from the best in "Our Man Bashir"
Edit: Reset text spilling out of the shot.
I can't help but remind you that O'Brien was the one expecting redundant backups in Cardassian systems.
O'Brien was scrappy, but Rom was scrappier. He learned from lack of resources while integrating Ferengi systems with Cardassian systems.
O'Brien had resources to back him up. He may have caused a language epidemic, but Rom never caused a panic unless he was instructed to. And he did that without question
His janky experience keeping Quarks (barely) functioning lent itself well to switching careers. I'm sure he showed O'Brien a few workarounds dealing with Cardi tech.
O'brien (like most family men) broke the day they brought home the puppy
How did I forget about the spatula? lol
O'Brien knows all the rules by now, so he knows which rules he can ignore.
My favorite kind of character. Competent, unconcerned with military bravado or intellectual superiority, and always knows what amount of fuckery he can get away with. It's why I liked Sgt Siler and Zelenka in Stargate.
His love of combat rations and Sisko's hate of them says it all.
Zelenka is awesome
That my friends, is character development
That's the difference between driving a shiny new Alfa Romero vs a busted up RV from the 80s.
And also a bit like integrating your legacy systems into the new "improved" systems.
Don't forget there was a language change there as well.
Actually come to think of it, I bet there's something on the Enterprise that still runs COBOL.
Maybe that's why the holodeck kept trying to kill everyone!
Nah, none of the power transfer conduits in an Alfa work reliably
but PASSION
Sprezzaturra
Of the Chrysler?
Is Alfa Romero related to John Romero?
Senior engineer O'Brien vs Principal engineer O'Brien.
Since when did Deep Space Nine have weapons?
It had phasers and like 5,000 photon torpedoes.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Space_9#Armament