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Miles Edward O'Brien

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Quote Episode
O'Brien : 
"Good luck, Commander."
Riker : 
"Thanks, O'Brien."
O'Brien : 
"I wouldn't want to go."
Riker : 
"Why?"
O'Brien : 
incredulous "You're not afraid, are you?"
Riker : 
"No, I'm not."
O'Brien : 
"I would be."
TNG : A Matter of Honor
Riker : 
"O'Brien, take a nap. You didn't see any of this. You're not involved."
O'Brien : 
"Right, sir. I'll just be standing over here dozing off."
TNG : Pen Pals
O'Brien : 
"It's not you I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became, because of you."
to Glinn Daro
TNG : The Wounded
Barclay : 
"Chief."
O'Brien : 
"Lieutenant. Glad you could make it. You know, I think this is the first time we've ever spoken outside of the transporter room."
Barclay : 
"Well, to be honest, I've always avoided you."
O'Brien : 
"Why?"
Barclay : 
"Because you run the transporters, and I hate the transporters. At least, I used to."
TNG : Realm of Fear
Sisko : 
"Chief, I thought you were going to fix the replicators!"
O'Brien : 
"Oh, you're absolutely right, sir! I knew I'd forgotten something! Can't have the operations chief sitting around daydreaming when there's work to be done, can we? Oh ho ho ho, I'll get right on it!"
DS9 : Babel
O'Brien : 
"Waylink complete…WAYLINK!!"
affected by the virus
DS9 : Babel
O'Brien : 
"You know the old saying, a man who is always looking over his shoulder is waiting for trouble to find him."
to Sisko; re Tosk
DS9 : Captive Pursuit
Keiko : 
"He's really very gentle."
O'Brien : 
"Gentle was bred out of these Cardassians a long time ago."
Keiko : 
"You know... that was a very ugly thing you just said."
O'Brien : 
"I only said-"
Keiko : 
"I don't need to hear it twice."
DS9 : Cardassians
O'Brien : 
"Marriage is the greatest adventure of them all. It's filled with pitfalls and setbacks and mistakes, but it's a journey worth taking."
to Bashir
DS9 : Armageddon Game
Replicant O'Brien : "Keiko..."
O'Brien : 
"What about her?"
Replicant O'Brien : "Tell her... I love..."
 
the replicants last words
DS9 : Whispers
O'Brien : 
"I'm no angel, but I try to live every day as the best Human being I know how to be. I need my little girl to wake up in the morning and look up at me and see a man she can respect."
to Odo
DS9 : Tribunal
O'Brien : 
"Sixteen years old and dating a dabo girl. Godspeed, Jake."
muttering to himself
DS9 : The Abandoned
O'Brien : 
"I thought your father told you to stay out of there!"
Jake : 
"If you don't tell him, I won't."
DS9 : Civil Defense
Gilora : 
"It's been my experience that..."
O'Brien : 
"What? That humans aren't good engineers?"
Gilora : 
"No, not humans. Males."
O'Brien : 
"I beg your pardon?"
Gilora : 
"Men just don't seem to have a head for this sort of thing. That's why women dominate the sciences."
O'Brien : 
"Maybe on Cardassia. But on this station, this man is Chief of Operations, and I know more about these systems anyone, including you."
DS9 : Destiny
O'Brien : 
"Trust me, Quark. Darts and bars go together like bacon and eggs."
Quark : 
"At least people order bacon and eggs. In all the years I've been here, no one has ever come in and asked to see the dart board."
O'Brien : 
"Trust me. They will."
DS9 : Visionary
Bashir : 
"Who told you that?"
O'Brien : 
"You did. In the future."
Bashir : 
"Oh. Well, who am I to argue with me?"
DS9 : Visionary
Kira : 
"Oh, you sound just like a Cardassian."
O'Brien : 
"I beg your pardon?"
Kira : 
"They have denied the possibility of ancient contact for decades because they cannot stand the idea of Bajor having interstellar flight before they did."
O'Brien : 
"With all due respect, Major, you're beginning to sound like a Romulan."
Kira : 
"A Romulan?"
O'Brien : 
"There is no piece of technology in existence they don't claim they invented before everyone else."
DS9 : Explorers
Bashir : 
"What's the matter, Chief?"
O'Brien : 
"It just occurred to me. As soon as that kid graduates from the Academy, I'm going to have to call him 'sir'."
 
on Nog
DS9 : Facets
Rinn : 
"The crime of espionage requires a minimum of fifteen cycles of correction
O'Brien : 
"Go? I can't leave. Where would I go to?"
DS9 : Hard Time
O'Brien : 
"When we were growing up, they used to tell us... Humanity had evolved, that mankind had outgrown hate and rage. But when it came down to it, when I had the chance to show, that no matter what anybody did to me, that I was still an evolved Human being... I failed. I repaid kindness with blood. I was no better than an animal."
Bashir : 
"No. No, no, no. An animal would've killed Ee'Char and never had a second thought, never shed a tear... But not you. You hate yourself. You hate yourself so much you think you deserve to die. The Argrathi did everything they could to strip you of your Humanity and in the end, for one brief moment they succeeded. But you can't let that brief moment define your entire life. If you do, if you pull that trigger… then the Argrathi will have won. They will have destroyed a good man. You cannot let that happen, my friend."
DS9 : Hard Time
O'Brien : 
"I'm Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. And I'm very much alive, and intend to stay that way!"
to his troops
DS9 : To the Death
O'Brien : 
"It's not easy being funny wearing these teeth."
disguised as a Klingon
DS9 : Apocalypse Rising
O'Brien : 
"We've grown apart, the lot of us. We didn't mean for it to happen, but it did. The war changed us, pulled us apart. Lisa Cusak was my friend. But you are also my friends, and I want my friends in my life. Because one day we're going to wake up and we're going to discover that someone is missing from this circle, and on that day we're gonna mourn. And we shouldn't have to mourn alone."
to his friends
DS9 : The Sound of Her Voice
Quark : 
"You wanna get Jadzia to Sto-vo-kor fine, fine, go for it. But can't you do something more sensible? Make a donation in her name! Or bribe someone!"
Bashir : 
"It doesn't work that way, Quark."
O'Brien : 
"It'd be nice if it did."
DS9 : Image in the Sand
O'Brien : 
"Julian swears there's nothing going on between him and Ezri. There's no reason for you to be jealous."
Worf : 
"This has nothing to do with jealousy! I know that Doctor Bashir cared for Jadzia, but this woman is not Jadzia, and treating her as if she were dishonors her memory."
O'Brien : 
"Wrong. Treating Ezri like a stranger dishonors Jadzia's memory."
DS9 : Afterimage
O'Brien : 
"Julian, why don't you show everybody how much you love me and order the next round?"
to Bashir
DS9 : Chrysalis
O'Brien : 
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Nog : 
"Chief, I can't operate under those kinds of restrictions."
DS9 : Treachery, Faith, and the Great River
O'Brien : 
"Maybe there's a pointer fault in the holosuite's parameter file."
trying to explain the sudden changes in Vic's
DS9 : Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
O'Brien : 
"Personally I don't know what Jadzia ever saw in the man."
Bashir : 
"Well, his brains."
 
on Captain Boday who has a transparent skull
DS9 : Penumbra
Bashir : 
"Section 31 must have created the virus, infected Odo, and then used him as a carrier."
O'Brien : 
"So that when he linked with another Changeling, he'd pass it on, and eventually the entire race would be infected."
Bashir : 
"31 isn't just trying to stop us from finding a cure. They're trying to cover up the fact that they set out to commit genocide."
O'Brien : 
"Well, if they gave Odo this disease, then they must have a cure."
Bashir : 
"We have to find a way to get our hands on that cure."
O'Brien : 
"Before 31 gets their hands on us."
DS9 : When it Rains...
O'Brien : 
"Julian, it's time to face facts. You're not gonna pull a rabbit out of your med kit."
to Bashir
DS9 : Tacking into the Wind
O'Brien : 
"Hey Julian, the next time you take a trip inside someone's mind, you're going on your own."
to Bashir
DS9 : Extreme Measures
O'Brien : 
"Aha! Here we go. I knew Quark was hoarding a bottle of the good stuff."
Bashir : 
"This is older than I am."
O'Brien : 
"What? I'm drinking with a child."
DS9 : Extreme Measures
O'Brien : 
"I don't get it. He's interested, she's interested... what's the problem?"
Worf : 
"He is an overgrown child and she is very... confused."
O'Brien : 
"It could still work."
 
discussing Julian and Ezri
DS9 : The Dogs of War

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